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General Grad School Advice

Orgtheory.net has an excellent list of general grad school advice

#1: Get the rules!

#2: The unwritten rules of graduate school.

#3: Choosing a graduate program.

#4: How to make the best of course work.

Omar has useful things to say about learning to be a scholar.

#5: Graduate school exams.

#6: Why friends are important.

#7: Picking your adviser.

#8: Choosing people for your committee who aren’t the chair.

#9: Why you shouldn’t pay for graduate school.

#10: Choose a dissertation topic.

#11: What to do while you are working on the dissertation.

#12: Writing your dissertation, part 1.

#13: Writing your dissertation, part 2.

#14: Sorry, you can’t write your dissertation in 15 minutes a day.

#15: Working With Your Committee

#16: About Teaching

#16.2: More About Teaching

#17 All in the Family

#18 What Professors Can do to Help

Kieran on toxic grad programs, following Leiter.

#19 Words for Women

#20 For Students of Color

It Takes A Village to Raise a PhD

#21 When to quit

#21.2 When to quit, follow up

#22 Publishing in graduate school

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