Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Going to graduate school

One of the chapters of the book describes the decision to go to grad school and particularly to a PhD program. My advice was short because I wasn't sure how many people would be interested, so I thought that I would link to a few more comprehensive guides.

Tim Burke's "Should You Go to Grad School"
Fontana Lab's "It's Six Years of Love and Music, Man"
Fabio Rojas's "Grad School Rulz"
Eszter Hargittai's "Ph.Do"

Kieran Healy sums it all up like this: "In academic environments, expectations are high and monitoring is low (but decisive when it happens). Many grad-student pathologies spring from a failure to deal with this problem."

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