In my third year of graduate school, after getting some positive response to my advice for prospective graduate students, I decided to write a second essay, advising current graduate students on staying happy and self-confident in grad school. As with the other, I don’t dare edit it at this remove, so here it is in […]

While I was a graduate student, no later than my third year of studies, I decided to write an essay of advice to prospective graduate students about choosing a program and mentally preparing themselves for graduate study. I’d been through it myself, of course, and also was closely involved in the prospective student visits at […]