One way my career before graduate school helped me was preparing me to “manage up.” When we think of the word manage, the process that most often comes to mind is a supervisor monitoring, training, and evaluating a subordinate. But management really happens in both directions in the workplace. Supervisors give assignments, but their employees …
Last week, I listened to the Professoring podcast episode on Academic Break Ups. The co-hosts discussed a range of kinds of break ups they experienced as graduate students including breaking up with advisors who were no longer a good fit. The podcast (which I highly recommend) got me thinking about finding advisors and committee members …
When you first start graduate school, you’re assigned an advisor usually based on the faculty you mentioned in your application statements and/or the research interests you described. For those of you in the social sciences and in programs to which your funding is not attached to an individual faculty member, it is perfectly normal for …
Some of the most stressful moments of grad school arise around making what feel like career defining decisions. Choosing which faculty members to work with is one of those moments for many grad students whether it’s picking an advisor or committee members for MA papers, qualifying exams, or the dissertation. Even though you have to …
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