100 Reasons

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Monday, February 7, 2011

45. Nice advisers can be worse.

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If you suffer under a tyrranical adviser (see Reason 44 ) who expects you to meet high standards and strict deadlines, you may rise to the o...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

44. Advisers can be tyrants.

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The most important relationship of your graduate-school career is that between you and your adviser (or in some departments, “major professo...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

43. Attitudes about graduate school are changing.

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The Economist recently noted that “whining PhD students are nothing new,” and that is certainly true. Graduate students have been unhappy w...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

42. Your workspace reflects your status.

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Facilities vary greatly from one campus to another—and from one department to another—but office space is in short supply on nearly every ca...
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

41. Teaching is your first priority.

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If you are lucky enough to have a job as a teaching assistant, you will be told by your department that your studies are your first priority...
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

40. Faddishness prevails.

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You probably associate fads with fashion and junior high school, but fads are very much a part of modern academic culture. Whole disciplines...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

39. You are asked to do the impossible.

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If you have never seen a graduate-level reading list, you may be in for a surprise. The largest part of your reading load is usually assigne...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

38. The tyranny of the CV.

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Another example of terminology-inflation in academe (see Reason 35 ) is evident in the “curriculum vitae.” What in most other walks of lif...
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