Getting What you Came For:
The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning a Masters or PhD.
by Robert Peters
The Ultimate Grad School Survival Guide by Lesli Mitchell
These book discussions and chapter assignments will give you
the opportunity to learn collectively how to achieve success
in graduate school. The assignments will also give you the opportunity
to practice synthesizing and presenting information orally. Students
have been paired to facilitate discussion. Each set of presenters
can decide how to share or divide the work; it is a good idea,
however, for each student in the pair to read both assigned chapters.
Each discussion will begin with dinner and brief announcements.
Scholars should come having read the chapters, and discussants should
be prepared to discuss assigned chapters.
Schedule permitting, certain Wednesday lunch discussions will be devoted to writing in general, and to writing the progress report, abstract, and personal statement.
Date
(Presenters)
Discussion Chapters
Discussion Chapters
Week I: June 9
(Plater and
Leger-Palmer)
What You Came For
1
-
This Book Can Help You
2
-
What is Graduate School Like?
3
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Do You Need to Go?
4
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Should You Work First?
Grad School Guide
1
-
Finding the Right University
Week II: June 16
(Hoover, Shand
and Mainardi)
What You Came For
5
-
Choosing A School: The Thesis Advisor
6
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Choosing A School: Secondary Aspects
7
-
Application and Admission
8
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Improving Your Credentials for Admission
Grad School Guide
2
-
Admissions: Getting In
3
-
Financial Aid
Week III: June 23
Personal Statement
(Leger-Palmer)
What You Came For
23
-
Swimming w/ the Mainstream
Personal Statement 1st Draft Due: Wed. 6/18
