grad skool rulz
This is a collection of graduate school advice columns I have written for orgtheory. I have tried to make it fairly generic advice. I hope you can find something relevant to your situation.
#2: The unwritten rules of graduate school.
#3: Choosing a graduate program.
#4: How to make the best of course work.
Omar has useful things to say about learning to be a scholar.
#6: Why friends are important.
#8: Choosing people for your committee who aren’t the chair.
#9: Why you shouldn’t pay for graduate school.
#10: Choose a dissertation topic.
#11: What to do while you are working on the dissertation.
#12: Writing your dissertation, part 1.
#13: Writing your dissertation, part 2.
#14: Sorry, you can’t write your dissertation in 15 minutes a day.
#15: Working With Your Committee
#18 What Professors Can do to Help
Kieran on toxic grad programs, following Leiter.
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September 9, 2007 at 2:08 pm
[...] Thinking about getting a Ph.D? Try lying down until the feeling goes away. Didn’t work? Try (1) Tim Burke on how to tell whether you really want a Ph.D. (Short answer: probably not.) If you persist anyway and find yourself starting a program somewhere at the moment, then (2) Total Drek provides 22 Unhelpful Hints about making the best of it. They’re very good. And so are (3) My co-blogger Fabio Rojas’s Grad Skool Rulz. [...]
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September 9, 2007 at 2:09 pm
[...] Thinking about getting a Ph.D? Try lying down until the feeling goes away. Didn’t work? Try (1) Tim Burke on how to tell whether you really want a Ph.D. (Short answer: probably not.) If you persist anyway and find yourself starting a program somewhere at the moment, then (2) Total Drek provides 22 Unhelpful Hints about making the best of it. They’re very good. And so are (3) My co-blogger Fabio Rojas’s Grad Skool Rulz. [...]
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September 12, 2007 at 12:42 am
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December 10, 2007 at 2:02 am
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December 11, 2007 at 10:14 am
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January 6, 2008 at 11:13 pm
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September 23, 2008 at 3:45 am
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March 26, 2009 at 5:49 am
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