num_pages: 208
description: Dont think about why youre applying. Select a topic for entirely strategic reasons. Choose the coolest supervisor. Write only to deadlines. Expect people to hold your hand. Become that student. When it comes to a masters or PhD program most graduate students dont deliberately set out to fail. Yet of the nearly 500000 people who start a graduate program each year up to half will never complete their degree. Books abound on acing the admissions process but there is little on what to do once the acceptance letter arrives. Veteran graduate directors Kevin D. Haggerty and Aaron Doyle have set out to demystify the world of advanced education. Taking a wry frank approach they explain the common mistakes that can trip up a new graduate student and lay out practical advice about how to avoid the pitfalls. Along the way they relate stories from their decades of mentorship and even share some slip-ups from their own grad experiences. The litany of foul-ups is organized by theme and covers the grad school experience from beginning to end: selecting the university and program interacting with advisors and fellow students balancing personal and scholarly lives navigating a thesis and creating a life after academia. Although the tone is engagingly tongue-in-cheek the lessons are crucial to anyone attending or contemplating grad school. 57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School allows you to learn from others mistakes rather than making them yourself.
language: English
title: 57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School: Perverse Professional Lessons for Graduate Students
publisher: University of Chicago Press