Surviving and Succeeding in Graduate School
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.
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Reading Tips and Strategies (8)
Current Issues in Grad Ed (11)
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Family & Grad School (13)
Stress (18)
Financial Aid (45)
Thesis Writing (16)
Get Organized (13)
Time Use & Procrastination (19)
Grad Student Humor (19)
Transitions: Starting Out (14)
Make a Good Impression on Professors
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?
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?
Back to School Advice for Graduate Students
It's back to school time. Time to hunker down for a new fun-packed year of graduate study. Although we all work over the summer, the we have the luxury to focus on only one or two things rather than the usual heap. Guess what? It's time to focus on the heap again! This back-to-school collection of resources will help you start the semester right.
It's back to school time. Time to hunker down for a new fun-packed year of graduate study. Although we all work over the summer, the we have the luxury to focus on only one or two things rather than the usual heap. Guess what? It's time to focus on the heap again! This back-to-school collection of resources will help you start the semester right.
How to Approach a Professor for Help
How do you approach a professor for help? Few students make it through college and graduate school without having to seek some assistance from a professor. How do you ask for help?
How do you approach a professor for help? Few students make it through college and graduate school without having to seek some assistance from a professor. How do you ask for help?
Grad Student's Guide to Mentors and Advisors
Faculty are essential to your graduate school existence. Learn how to manage them.
Faculty are essential to your graduate school existence. Learn how to manage them.
Research Resources: Full-Text Databases
Looking for full-text access to journals, books, and other resources? Start here.
Looking for full-text access to journals, books, and other resources? Start here.
Make the Most of Your Study Time
Can't find time to study? Here's how to make the most of your study time.
Can't find time to study? Here's how to make the most of your study time.
Book Review: Getting What You Came For
Guides your through graduate school. How do you handle the workload and politics? Read on.
Guides your through graduate school. How do you handle the workload and politics? Read on.
Graduate Student Blues
Lose your graduate student blues
Lose your graduate student blues
Getting Started in Research: Your Research Journal
Research is critical to your success in graduate school. But just how do you do get started? Where do great research ideas come from? A research journal can help you sort out your ideas and get started on research for your dissertation.
Research is critical to your success in graduate school. But just how do you do get started? Where do great research ideas come from? A research journal can help you sort out your ideas and get started on research for your dissertation.
Public Speaking: Conquer Your Anxiety
Graduate students and professors can't avoid public speaking. So how do you deal with your nervousness and give a memorable presentation?
Graduate students and professors can't avoid public speaking. So how do you deal with your nervousness and give a memorable presentation?
Study Tips for Graduate Students
Succeeding in graduate school requires lots of study time. How do you find the time to study? Try these study tips
Succeeding in graduate school requires lots of study time. How do you find the time to study? Try these study tips
Share Your Homework Time with Your Kids
Got kids? Then you probably don't have time. Here are some tips for balancing your home and school lives.
Got kids? Then you probably don't have time. Here are some tips for balancing your home and school lives.
How to Behave at a Presentation
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.
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.
When it Comes to Learning Grad School is a New World
Success in graduate school requires a whole different approach towards studying.
Success in graduate school requires a whole different approach towards studying.
Top 4 Graduate School Survival Books
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
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
Emotional Fatigue: Coping with Academic Pressure
An excellent discussion of the causes of burnout, symptoms, and how to cope. A must-read for all graduate students (and professors!)
An excellent discussion of the causes of burnout, symptoms, and how to cope. A must-read for all graduate students (and professors!)
So long and Thanks for the Ph.D.
A graduate school survival guide, intended for prospective or novice graduate students in computer science, but useful to all.
A graduate school survival guide, intended for prospective or novice graduate students in computer science, but useful to all.
Networking on the Network
Believe it or not, networking is vital to your success. Phil Agree's advice on how to use the internet to network is essential.
Believe it or not, networking is vital to your success. Phil Agree's advice on how to use the internet to network is essential.
ASGS, the Association for Support of Graduate Students
A service organization that helps students complete their theses, obtain their degrees, and improve the quality of student lives. Nice resource.
A service organization that helps students complete their theses, obtain their degrees, and improve the quality of student lives. Nice resource.