Table of Contents
Chapter and Title
1 Deciding to Go to Graduate School
2 Selecting an Advisor: Whose Lab Is Right for Me?
3 The Stages of Graduate School
4 Classes, Journal Clubs, Lab Meetings, and Seminars
5 The Absent Professor
6 How You Learn
7 Deciding on Research Projects for Your Dissertation
8 Networking
9 Picking a Dissertation Committee, and Defending the Proposal at the Preliminary Oral Exam
10 The Life of a Graduate Student
11 Some Additional Aspects of Graduate School Life: Lab Notebooks, Etiquette, Competition, Luck
12 Do I Belong Here?: Insecurity and Stress
13 Foreign Students: Unique Problems and Stresses
14 On the Art of Scientific Writing
15 What Should Your Goals Be While in Graduate School?
16 Times They Are A-Changing
17 The End is in Sight: Writing the Dissertation
18 The Final Oral Exam (the Defense)
References and Additional Reading
Index
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