Getting What You Came for: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D., (Paperback)

from collsers

Helpful, but I wouldn't call it indispensable. Definitely slanted more towards students pursuing graduate work in the sciences; as a humanities student, I felt like a lot of the book didn't apply to me (about getting into labs, etc). Also, quite dated. Recommends that you get a computer with a mo...

from skinglist

An interesting read at primarily academia-tracked grad school. Also very much in the early stages of the internet. I enjoyed the book, although it showed a very different track to the one I took prior to and during graduate school. I don't intend to go on for a PhD and I'm not certain whether or ...

from jennchem

Chock full of useful advice, though the title's a bit misleading: this book would be much more useful to someone first setting out to look at graduate schools, not someone who is already there. I also had to stop reading at the blanket statement that teaching too much in graduate school is bad fo...

from lsimpson

indispensable. must read before applying to grad school. Totally sensible and well informed.

from lsimpson

indispensable. must read before applying to grad school. Totally sensible and well informed.