Entries Tagged 'Graduate School' ↓

I’m not sure why, but the New York Times report on shortening the time to a Ph.D. is currently the most e-mailed article on their site.  My hunch is that thousands of MBA grads are getting high on schadenfreude right now.
If it’s the grad students, or future grad students, passing this article around, I can […]

Wicked Anomie has another installment of paper publication tips, this time breaking down a couple of the decisions you might receive from a journal.  The post includes useful advice from Gary Fine, the editor of Social Psychology Quarterly, on getting rejected:
“What kind of profession do we live in that 80-90% of our work products are […]

Wicked Anomie has posted a list of 10 tips for getting your paper published.  The advice comes from a panel discussion with editors of several sociology journals that was held at the recent ASA conference in New York. 
A few of the tips are discipline specific, but most are generalizable. Take Tip #1, for […]

An important part of surviving graduate school is soaking up advice from those who have gone before you.  Sure, your particular circumstances will be unique, but grad students face so much in common that it pays to heed your elders.
Fabio has been writing a series at orgtheory.net intended to demystify graduate school and help students […]

The All-But-Dissertation Survival Guide is a free monthly newsletter “devoted to practical strategies for successfully completing your doctoral dissertation.”  I’ve been getting the newsletter for a few months now and I think it’s really well done.  The tips are sensible and I like how they enlist current and graduated Ph.D. students to write about what’s […]

In homage to Jeremy’s posts on opening sentences and paragraphs that convince you to keep reading, here’s the intro to a chapter I stumbled across today that almost guarantees I’ll finish the whole thing:
Yossarian looked at the professor soberly and tried another approach.  “Does Orr have a theory?”
“He sure does,” Prof. Daneeka responded.
“Then can you […]

As far as I was concerned, ABD was just the Turkish acronym for the United States (Amerika Birleşik Devletleri).  But since Monday, it also applies to yours truly because I defended my dissertation prospectus and I’m All But Dissertation!
Did anyone else who’s been through this before feel a rush at this point?  How long before […]