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Contents
1 Introduction
2 Graduate School in Your Future?
2.1 Why Go to Graduate School?
2.2 Can You Afford It?
2.3 What Is Graduate School Like?
2.4 Could You Succeed in Graduate School?
2.5 How Should You Prepare for Graduate School?
3 Applying to Graduate School
3.1 How Do Schools Choose Their Students?
3.2 Making a Decision
4 The Life of a Graduate Student
4.1 Courses
4.2 Life as a Teaching Assistant
4.3 Life as a Research Assistant
4.4 Life on a Fellowship
4.5 Life with an Outside Job
4.6 Social Life
4.7 Becoming a Professional
4.8 Maintaining Sanity
5 Surviving Written Exams
5.1 Preparing for a Written Exam
5.2 In the Exam
5.3 After the Exam
6 Surviving Oral Exams
6.1 Preparing for the exam
6.2 In the Exam
6.3 If Things Go Wrong...
7 Finding and Dealing with an Advisor
7.1 What to Look for in a Potential Advisor
7.2 How to Find an Advisor
7.3 The Advisor-Advisee Relationship
8 Finding a Topic and Beginning Research
8.1 Getting Research Ideas
8.1.1 Becoming an Active Reader and Listener
8.1.2 Exposing Yourself to Research
8.1.3 Directed Study
8.1.4 Developing the Germ of an Idea
8.2 A Pitfall to Avoid
8.3 Choosing an Idea
8.4 Remain Active
9 The Thesis Writing Process
9.1 How Can You Minimize the Pain of Writing?
9.2 Writing Tools
9.3 Dealing with Your Thesis Committee
10 A Professorship in Your Future?
10.1 Why Choose an Academic Career?
10.2 What Is a Professor's Life Like?
10.2.1 The Beginning
10.2.2 Preparing for the Tenure Decision
10.2.3 The Tenured Life
10.3 How Should You Prepare for an Academic Career?
10.4 How Do You Find a Job?
10.4.1 Applying
10.4.2 Interviewing
10.5 Some Fallacies about the Academic Life
10.6 Some Notes (Not for Women Only)
11 Careers in Government and Industry
11.1 Types of Careers
11.2 What Is Industrial Life Like?
11.3 How Should You Prepare for an Industrial Career?
11.4 How Do You Find a Job?
11.4.1 Applying
11.4.2 Interviewing
12 Professional Ethics
12.1 Intellectual Property
12.2 Academic Integrity
12.3 Use of Computer Facilities
12.4 Human Relations
12.5 Professional Integrity
12.6 Values
13 Resources
13.1 Professional Societies
13.2 Further information on Graduate Life
13.3 Research pointers
13.4 Literature on Technical Writing and Speaking
13.5 Career Advice
13.6 Literature on Women and Minorities in Science
13.7 Resources for Applying to Graduate School
13.8 Resources for Job Searching
13.9 Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
13.10 Teaching Advice
13.11 Professional Ethics
About this document ...
Dianne O'Leary
Wed May 19 09:40:03 EDT 1999
