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Category Archives: Graduate school

Another resource for doctoral students

January 27, 2012

A site that focuses on resources and advice for doctoral students interviewed me about protoscholar and the results are posted …

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Looks good on paper

December 30, 2011

In the course of my PhD program I took upwards of 18 credits of research methods classes: Introducation to Statistics …

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Interesting posts from other blogs…

September 23, 2011

A couple of other blogs had posts this week that caught my attention and that I wanted to share.  Both …

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Computer skills for graduate students (and professors)

July 14, 2011

Computing for Psychologists has a great post on Computing skills for (psychology) students, most of which I think applies to …

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The long and winding road to a PhD: Another Infographic

June 22, 2011

I love a good infographic. Here are many of the stats I’ve discussed regarding grad school rolled up into a …

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The problem isn’t just the social sciences and humanities

June 19, 2011

Apparently the problem of oversupply of PhDs is nearly as bad in the physical and biological sciences.  A tenured prof …

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100 reasons NOT to go to graduate school

June 1, 2011

I found a new blog today that echos many of my previous posts on the issues with going to graduate school. …

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Lesson 3: Dissertation productivity requires different tools

May 7, 2011

When I first started this blog (during my coursework) one of my biggest concerns was productivity; how was I going …

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Lesson 2: Your health is more important than finishing a semester earlier…

May 5, 2011

One of my bigger mistakes was setting aside things like eating right and working out regularly while I worked on …

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Lesson 1: There is a reason for the 50% graduation rate

May 3, 2011

Only 50% of doctoral students graduate. Having gone through the process, this is no longer surprising. I wrote once before …

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Stats with Cats: The Domesticated Guide to Statistics, Models, Graphs, and Other Breeds of Data Analysis

Handbook of Educational Data Mining (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Fiction)

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