If you are ready to graduate by May, this episode breaks down exactly what you need to do to make that happen. These 5 steps will help you make the progress you want to make and ensure that you can graduate by the end of May.

Do you feel like time is going by fast but your progress with your dissertation is going by slow? If so, then you’re probably worried that you won’t be able to get everything done to graduate by the end of May.

But you just need to do the math on paper and understand that the rest is just drama.

Dr. Lacy gives advice and breaks down what you need to do to graduate by the end of May:

• Make the decision to do it
• Brain dump, write down everything you think you need to do. Decide the top 5 things that would guarantee you’d graduate by May. Put those 5 things on another sheet of paper and assign due dates to them.
• Communicate this plan with the right people (your advisor, chair, supervisor, accountability groups, coach)
• Be okay with the face that your rough draft will be good enough
• Choose which problem you want to deal with 

We hope this advice encourages you and helps you take the action you need to graduate by the end of May.