Time Management and Lists (Throwback Thursday)
Series note: The following post is part of the Rutgers Graduate Student Blog Throwback Thursday blog series, in which we will repost one of our most popular blog posts from years past.
Time management is always such a huge issue for us as graduate students, since we’re often pulled in so many different directions. We are students with classes, but we’re also scholars with research projects, instructors with classes to teach, and so much more. That’s why staying organized is one of the keys to staying sane in graduate school.
Brandon’s prioritized list made me think of the tools ...
Choosing Among Multiple Grad School Offers
This is the time of year when most people who have applied to graduate school for next September receive the decision letters regarding the fate of their applications. For those who have been following the advice I dispense on this blog and in my book, there is likely to be some good news in one or more of those letters! And if one has made prudent choices about how many programs to apply to, there might even be multiple acceptance offers. The more the better, of course, but having more than one choice of where to go poses a natural dilemma: How does one make that final decision when faced wit...
Can I Negotiate? Advice For All, Especially International Ph.D.s
by Karen
I am regularly asked “can I negotiate my offer when it’s my only offer?”
People constantly seem to think you need multiple offers to have leverage.
This is not true. For the vast majority of schools, you can and should negotiate your offer. The only time you should beware of negotiating is when there are red flags about the school itself, or the specific department you’re dealing with, red flags that I explain in my post, The Rescinded Offer: Who Is In the Wrong, and in more detail in the chapter on rescinded offers in my book.
But barring the danger signs explaine...
Why should a grad student blog?
Should I or should I not? But before you dismiss blogging as a time waster while you’re in grad school, here are some of the valid reasons why a grad student should maintain a blog:
Relieve stress. Stress is inevitable when you’re in grad school. Lots of reports, readings, and other requirements could eat you up in whole. Sometimes we need a diversion, something that takes our mind out of the academic hassles. Writing is a form of diversion. In grad school we write about scholarly topics in order to impress our professors. When you blog you write to impress yourself and your target read...
What font should I choose for my thesis?
by Thesis Whisperer
This post is by DrJanene Carey, a freelance writer and editor based in Armidale NSW. She occasionally teaches academic writing at the University of New England and often edits academic theses, articles and reports. Her website is http://www.janenecarey.com
Arguably, this question is a classic time waster and the student who poses it should be told to just get on with writing up their research. But as someone who edits theses for a living, I think a bit of time spent on fonts is part of the process of buffing and polishing what is, after all, one of the most important ...
Final Jeopardy: The Nobel Physics Prize
By Devin McGinty, Social Media Specialist
Recently, the final answer on the long-running quiz show Jeopardy involved an important thesis written in 1954. The category was difficult and the clue was tricky, throwing off two of the three contestants, who answered incorrectly.
A 2013 Laureate, this British man wrote a 1954 thesis on “Problems in the Theory of Molecular Vibrations.”
“Who is…Stephen Hawking?” Nice try, but if that was your response you wouldn’t be advancing to play another day. Don’t feel bad, the two incorrect contestants came to the same conclusion. But let...
A PhD Abroad
by ERIN BEDFORD
Erin Bedford (@erinellyse) is a PhD student in Nanotechnology Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI) in a co-supervised program.
There are many recognizable stereotypes of PhD students—a scientist working in the lab until 3 am, a historian sitting in an old library at a table piled high with books and papers—but the globetrotting PhD student is less recognized, and yet just as common. Research today is an international pursuit. Laboratories have members from around the world. International collaborations are not...
Getting into Grad School – The Graduate Records Exam (GRE)
If you have already selected the graduate school to which you plan to apply, congratulations. Now we need to talk about getting you admitted to the graduate school of your choice. One large hurdle you will need to prepare for is the Graduate Records Exam, known as the GRE.
You will not be alone! More than 600,000 potential graduate students take the GRE General Test in the U.S. each year. These applicants have widely varying educational experiences and even native languages. A graduate degree from a U.S. college or university is a sought-after opportunity, so GRE students represent more...
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