Some thoughts about how to think about the role of generative AI in research and writing. While in K-12 education and undergraduate programs, generative AI is a hot topic, there seems to be less frenzy about how graduate students might think about or use tools such as ChatGPT. In a show of extremely unscientific survey…
Admitting ignorance can be difficult for graduate students. But learning to say, “I don’t know” opens the door to academic success in graduate school.
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The library is an important resource for graduate students. Librarians discuss how they can help students to succeed in graduate school.
Graduate students share some of the challenges of grad school.
As you navigate your way through graduate school, it can be helpful to hear from those who are a bit farther down the road.
In which current and former students in master’s and doctoral programs share their graduate school challenges and surprises. Photo by Tabea Schimpf on Unsplash Grad School Is a Journey In this space, I have often used the metaphor of graduate school as a journey. Having just shared George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” with…
Most grad students need help . . . of some kind In an earlier blog, we looked at research identifying four classes of graduate students in STEM fields. One way to think about this research in a more general way is that while everyone needs help, not everyone needs the same kind of help. This…
Research into factors that may affect graduate school persistence. When I was doing some research on motivation for an earlier blog, I came across an article called “A Latent Class Analysis Approach to the Identification of Doctoral Students at Risk of Attrition.” It’s by a group of six researchers from Columbia, Stanford, and Penn State…
In the last post, I wrote about the what’s and why’s of planning backwards. The next logical question, of course is, “how?” This post will answer that question. Walter, of course, has his hat on backwards to illustrate the fact that this post is about backwards planning. Five Steps to Creating a Backwards Plan Step…
