I am a PhD student in math and this semester I was teaching an upper-level undergraduate course (juniors and seniors, math majors mostly). This is not the first time I am teaching this course, so I do have some experience. Now I am grading the final exams and I have no idea which grade I should give to one of the students.
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This is more relevant to people in sciences but should still be humorous to most grads. Enjoy!

http://whatshouldwecallgradschool.tumblr.com/

I was wondering:

To all you folks who are gearing up to write a dissertation and defend next year, what are you doing to keep yourself in mental/physical shape? Are you setting goals, preparing battle plans, retreating into a dissertation den?

Anyone else setting up an accompanying long-term goal project (I'm basically doing a 101 in 1001 thing) ( Read more... )

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I was wondering, anyone here currently in or was in George Washington University's community health program?  Or is there anyone here currently in or was in Drexel's public health program? If so what do you think about Drexel's community health oriented classes/program?

Graduate School Is a Means to a Job

I thought this was a pretty good article in The Chronicle; it gives some really good advice. It is geared more towards the humanities/social sciences so some of the advice applies more to those areas (e.g. going on the market while ABD... that seems to be much more common in these fields). But most of the advice ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if this is taboo in this community- my sincerest apologies if it is. But I figured I would try. I'm going to put it underneath a cut just in case it's out of place or offensive.
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I'm getting to a point where I cannot manage my articles: there are some that I printed out, some that are saved for future considerations, some that are not particularly useful for research. How do you keep them all straight? Do you use RefWorks for this too? I've only used it to create bibliographies at the very end. What is your research/ ( Read more... )

Hi all

I'm asking on behalf of a friend who's not on LJ. She is planning to do a Master's in Translation, with a focus on English and Mandarin. Can anyone suggest where would be a good place to do it in? Thanks!

I'm interested in recent titles on the changing nature of the academy -- publishing, accreditation, teaching, research. Have you come across any books or articles about the ways in which technology might be affecting that. I've read Borgman's Scholarship in the Digital Age and recently stumbled on Kathleen Fitzpatrick's Planned obsolescence : ( Read more... )