Ticked off because your advisor hasn’t written back in a week? Bent out of shape because your inbox is overflowing with emails about upcoming lectures you’ll never attend?
I heard a three minute segment on NPR’s Morning Edition today that put grad student griping in perspective. Abdulla Mizyead talks about trying to do his thesis defense [...]
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Defending your thesis in a war zone
December 8th, 2006 — Academia, Graduate School
The Third and Fourth Carnivals of GRADual Progress
December 6th, 2006 — Graduate School
I don’t know how it happened, but I look up one day and almost three months have passed since I wrote about the grad student blog carnival. (October? November?) Alas, there have already been two more carnivals and another one coming out next week.
These carnivals compile links to a bunch of grad student bloggers covering [...]
How to give a presentation and lose your audience in 5 seconds
December 3rd, 2006 — Academia, Graduate School, Personal Development, Productivity
I would rather get a root canal than sit through a conference where people just read their papers. Honestly, who wants to have an academic paper read to them? I can think of no better way to tell an audience you aren’t interested in respecting their time than to stand before them and read.
I thought [...]
How to make a few hundred extra dollars this semester
September 21st, 2006 — Graduate School, Productivity
If you’re looking to make a little extra cash without investing a lot of time and hardly any capital, you should look no further than selling books online, especially if you’re a student.
There are several factors that make being in school a great time to start selling books.
Free Books
First, there are plenty of unwanted [...]
The Second Carnival of GRADual Progress
September 18th, 2006 — Graduate School
Grad students, head over to Fumbling Towards Geekdom to check out the latest blog carnival on all things graduate school, called The Carnival of GRADual Progress. StyleyGeek has done a really nice job putting together links from folks like you and me who are working our way toward PhDs. Lots of interesting posts on topics [...]
Failed exams, rejection letters, and the Impostor Syndrome
August 5th, 2006 — Academia, Graduate School
Kudos to Chris Uggen, professor of sociology and chair of the sociology department at the University of Minnesota for blogging about how he failed one of his Ph.D. qualifying exams as a grad student.
Yes, you heard right. He’s a professor. He’s chair of the department. He failed one of his qualifying exams. And he just [...]
Ensconed in Graduate School
August 3rd, 2006 — Graduate School
Summer is not the best time of year to write about the stress of graduate school, but I wanted to share an email exchange I had recently with my friend Josh. He finished his masters a few years ago, but the memory lives on.
Each of the following comes from a separate email. Josh (in red) [...]