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How to Be a Good Graduate Student
Marie desJardins
March 1994
Abstract
This paper attempts to raise some issues that are important for graduate students to be successful and to get as much out of the process as possible, and for advisors who wish to help their students be successful. The intent is not to provide prescriptive advice -- no formulas for finishing a thesis or twelve-step programs for becoming a better advisor are given -- but to raise awareness on both sides of the advisor-student relationship as to what the expectations are and should be for this relationship, what a graduate student should expect to accomplish, common problems, and where to go if the advisor is not forthcoming. [Read More]
by Frank Vahid
(A synopsis of the book: How to Be a Good Graduate Student -- Tips for succeeding in graduate school.)
Introduction
Graduate school is the best kept secret in America.
Many students, exhausted from their 4-6 years of undergraduate courses, can't imagine why anyone would subject themselves to 2-6 more years of that torture to get a master's or Ph.D. degree, when a bachelor's degree is sufficient to get good jobs. However, contrary to popular misconception, graduate school is not just "more of the same." [Read More]
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