Deciding to go to graduate school
Working with advisers
Stephen C. Stearn’s “Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students.” Be warned, it’s a little … blunt, and it’s geared mostly to science students. Still, he dishes out some good big-picture advice.
Finishing the dissertation
PhinisheD, a forum to support graduate students in finishing that dissertation or thesis.
The Clockwork Muse, by Eviatar Zeruvabel. A guide to setting up a writing schedule that works for you as well as a system for making those pages accumulate. I review it here.
Defending the dissertation
Horror stories abound. If you want to feel less alone — or just prepare for the possibility that it won’t be your favorite memory from graduate school — check these out.
- Zuska shares her experience of hazing in the sciences