You've won admittance to graduate school! Now what? How do you ensure success in grad school? Peruse the pages below to enhance your ability to survive and succeed in graduate school.
Wondering what to get the graduate student on your list? Graduate students are an odd lot. Most are short on cash and will appreciate any gift, however small. What can you give that will light up your grad student's face? Here are a few ideas.
Graduate admissions committees want applicants with research experience. Getting experience is a matter of making connections with faculty.
Your relationship with your advisor is important to your success in graduate school and beyond. What does the student-advisor relationship look like from the advisor's perspective? What's it like on the other side?
Your choice of mentor will influence your career in graduate school and afterward. How do you choose a mentor? What characteristics should you look for?
What is a doctoral candidate? What does it mean to be ABD?
Your performance on your master's or doctoral comprehensive exam can make or break your graduate school career. Learning all there is to know about your field is daunting, but don't let it overwhelm you. Be systematic in your preparations and follow these tips to get your studying underway and prepare for your comprehensive exams.
One of the biggest milestones of graduate study is passing your "comps" -- or comprehensive examinations. Comps are administered at both the masters and doctoral level. Learn more.
At one time or another nearly every graduate student and new faculty member wonders about his or her competence: "Will they find out that I'm making it up as I go?" The impostor syndrome runs rampant in academia - and women are especially prone to it.
New graduate students quickly discover that grad school is entirely different than college. Grad school is a whole different beast.
Writing papers and other large projects can overwhelm even the best of students. Most time management experts agree that the best way to tackle a large project is to break it into its component tasks. Here's how.
To-do lists make your life easier because they list everything that you need to do or remember for a given day, so you don’t have to worry about forgetting anything.
All students need an academic calendar because, rather than the calendar year, it follows the academic year, from mid-August to July.
Relationships with faculty are critical to success in graduate school. The initial relationship is often formed in class. How do you make a good impression in class?
It is not just relationships with faculty that matter in graduate school. Many graduate students are surprised to learn that relationships with other students also predict success in graduate school and beyond.
The first day of class in college and graduate school is all about introducing the class. There are different ways of approaching the first day.
This collection of resources will help you get a handle on your graduate studies
Graduate school survival books abound. Some offer essential advice while others are a waste of your precious time. Don't lose lab and research time to reading hackneyed graduate school success books. Check out these picks
Guides your through graduate school. How do you handle the workload and politics? Read on.
Exams, papers, and other deadlines are very stressful for students. How do you manage the stress of graduate school? Try these tips.
Graduate school is way different from college. Pay attention to these three tips and you will start graduate school on the right foot and set yourself up for long term success.
Is academia bad for your health?
Some graduate students and early career professional suffer from the impostor syndrome. What is it?
In graduate school and beyond, you're judged not only by how you present your own work, but by the respect you show your colleagues.
A graduate school survival guide, intended for prospective or novice graduate students in computer science, but useful to all.
Believe it or not, networking is vital to your success. Phil Agree's advice on how to use the internet to network is essential.
A service organization that helps students complete their theses, obtain their degrees, and improve the quality of student lives. Nice resource.
