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Navigating Graduate School: A Comprehensive Guide and Personal Experience

Dive into the real world of graduate school with insights on requirements, class life, personal and professional aspects, and navigating the environment. Learn about PhD vs Masters, balancing personal and academic life, and excelling in class and professional endeavors. Discover the PEC philosophy and conquer time, pressure, and ego in your graduate journey.

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Navigating Graduate School: A Comprehensive Guide and Personal Experience

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  1. The “real” Graduate School By Jeff Ginger

  2. A Bit of First and Foremost • Only my experiences and opinions, remember to ask more than one person • Social Science. None of that silly math or hard science crap. • I am permanently beta

  3. The List • Requirements • Environment • Personal Life • Class life • Professional Life

  4. A Word on Requirements • So much more than good grades… • Letters of recommendation/social networking • Experience: Research, grad classes, working • A definitive drive or passion – show you can do it • PhD program? Go get your Masters

  5. Environment • PhD vs. Masters • Year variance • Research vs. teaching vs. activist institutions • Departmental focus • Other campus issues • Graduate student status

  6. Personal Life • Like being a Freshman… except without all of the other Freshmen? • Hi my name is awkward and I read too much • Living it up (or down?) • What’s my age again? • Significant others, kids and distance • Other disciplines? • Geographical and international • Time and time not again

  7. Class Life • Self-led studies and research… sorta • Reading! Whole books this time. Hardcore. • Professor/student relationship & class types • Fewer hours, but teaching and intensity • Essential classes • Presenting your Ego • The new grading scale:

  8. New Grading Scale

  9. Professional Life • This is a job? • Publishing • Conferences, journals, credentials, defense • Researching • RA-ships, not always your own, with who? • Assistantships • Teaching w/o training? Obligation? Role-models? • Service • Job talks, paper presentations, advising clubs

  10. The PEC • A life philosophy and social movement that graduates too often forget • Battling the big three • Time • Pressure • Ego

  11. Questions? Thanks for your attention-

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