Six Lessons from Six Months in Grad School, with Blakesley Rhett
From Mindful Mentoring w/Tom Martin by Tom Martin
January 28, 2026 · 17 min · Season 3 · Episode 2
About this episode
Blakesley Rhett shares her insights from six months in graduate school, focusing on lessons learned in her journey to becoming a journalist.
Send us Fan Mail For the past six months, one of last year’s Martin Scholars graduates, Blakesley Rhett, has been pursuing her dreams of becoming a journalist as a graduate student at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She recently posted on LinkedIn: "Six Lessons from Six Months in Grad School." I was so impressed by the post that I invited her to share her Six Lessons on “Mindful Mentoring.” https://charleston.edu/martin-center/
People in this episode
Host: Tom Martin
Guest: Blakesley Rhett
Topics covered
- graduate school
- journalism
- lessons learned
- education
- self improvement
- mentoring
Keywords
- graduate school
- journalism
- lessons
- education
- self improvement
- mentoring
- Syracuse University
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Charleston Southern University
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