Things to Know Before You Go
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The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind'
Most departments will never willingly provide information on graduate-student attrition, debt, and placement.
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Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go
It's hard to tell young people that universities view their idealism and energy as an exploitable resource.
- Just Don't Go, Part 2
- If You Must Go to Grad School ...
- Dodging the Anvil
- Making a Reasonable Choice
- The Annual Labor Shortage Hoax
- Is Graduate School a Cult?
Henry Adams on Grad School
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Academic Bait-and-Switch: Grand Summer Goals
Sitting at my desk last February, I once again envisioned a summer in which I would get 36 hours of work out of every 24.
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 14
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 13
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 12
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 11
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 10
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 9
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 8
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 7
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 6
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 5
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 4
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 3
- Academic Bait-and-Switch, Part 2
- Academic Bait-and-Switch
The Graduate Adviser
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Not Too Close
When to keep your distance from graduate-student advisees.
- Let's Do Lunch
- We're Not a Hierarchy, We're an Ecosystem
- What Are Low-Ranked Graduate Programs Good For?
- What If We Made Fewer Ph.D.'s?
- The Dissertation Defense: We're Doing Something Right
- The Multi-Track Ph.D.
Advice for Advisers
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To: Professors; Re: Your Advisees
Why am I getting paid to mentor your graduate students? Because someone has to do it.
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Tales From the Grad-Advising Crypt
Even after decades of advising experience, many professors can't predict which graduate students will succeed and which ones will flame out.
- Advising the Dissertation Student Who Won't Finish
- Advising the New Adviser
From The Chronicle Review
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Starting Over, With a Bad Attitude
It's hard heading back to grad school when you know too much about postgraduate life.
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A Letter From a Graduate Student in the Humanities
Dear Professors: We don't want your pity, just your help.
The CV Doctor
Our experts offer advice on preparing strong academic CV's and résumés for nonacademic jobs.
First Time on the Market?
Going on the academic job market for the first time? Here are some things you should know.
Exam Prep
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As Smart as I'll Ever Be
What's great about qualifying exams--no really, there is something great.
- An Orals Survival Kit
Writing the Dissertation
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The Problem Is: You Write Too Well
Do dissertation committees really criticize young scholars for good writing, or is that just selective hearing?
- Footnotitis
- Rumblings of a Dissertation Writer
- Frodo Baggins, A.B.D.
- Finishing the Dissertation
- Place and Space
- How eBay Helped Me Finish My Thesis
- How To Finish Your Dissertation
Parents Pursuing Ph.D.'s
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Why So Few Doctoral-Student Parents?
An expert on work-life issues in academe mulls why so few people start a family in graduate school.
- A Pregnant Pause
- Giving Birth to 2 Babies
- Graduate School With Children
- Graduate School With Children, Part 2
- Graduate School With Children, Part 3
- Giving Birth in Graduate School
Coping With Stress
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Fear and Loathing in Graduate School
Fretting about the job market while in graduate school is not only unhealthy but gets in the way of good scholarship.
- Food and Sanity in Graduate School
- Paranoid? You Must Be a Grad Student
- Graduate School Neuroses
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Advanced Symptoms of Advanced Degrees
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Grad-School Blues
Dealing With Debt
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In Debt to Your Degree
Twelve actions that students and scholars can take to break free from debt.
- A Career in Academe: Priceless
- I Want a Bailout
- Extra Credit
Strategies for Success
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What I Learned About Surviving Graduate School
A new assistant professor offers advice about how to enjoy life as an overworked and underpaid doctoral student.
- What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School 2.0
- The Graduate Student as Entrepreneur
- Should Graduate Students Create E-Portfolios?
- What I Tell My Graduate Students
- Fashion Lessons for Graduate Students
- Reading Like a Graduate Student
- Thinking Beyond the Dissertation
- How to Win a Graduate Fellowship
- Grant-Writing Tips for Graduate Students
Troubleshooting
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Dealing With a Difficult Adviser
What are your options when your mentor is failing as a mentor?
- Betrayed by Your Adviser
- Students or Serfs?
Having a Plan B
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From Academe to Market Research
A Ph.D. in the life sciences offers advice on pursuing a nonacademic job.
- The Humanities Ph.D. at Work
- Don't Reform Graduate Education in a Vacuum
- Location, Location, Location
- Turning 'Plan B' Into a 'Plan A' Life
- Writing for History Buffs
- Our Secret Nonacademic Histories
- The Sweet Spot of a Nonacademic Job Search
- Changing History
- Sharing the Driving




