Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Required Reading: A Compendium of Links for Graduate Students

Required Reading is a collection of indispensable posts on the process of surviving graduate school. It's a one-time carnival, a blog anthology, if you will. The heart of the collection is divided into five parts:


A few notes about the collection here. It is currently (and likely permanently) skewed toward the humanities almost exclusively, and largely toward English. Contributors are graduate students and faculty alike. The collection here, though is not itself set in stone. I will add, and in some limited cases, perhaps even get rid of links as new discussions pop up, online identities shift, and the conversation continues. Please do tell me if I've forgotten posts: I can already think of some I've missed.

I should also note that much of this conversation continues in a more textured, frontline, and ongoing fashion at the invaluable Carnival of GRADual Progress, a resource that readers here should know and use.

The easiest way to link the whole collection is to link to the label, Grad Compendium, which should put the whole thing into order. Feel free to add links in the comments section, and comment at will. If you find broken links or what have you, do gmail me those so I can correct them.

In the meantime, what follows is a huge trove of information, advice, and experience to help the aspiring academic.

13 comments:

Dr. Crazy said...

This is really unbelievable and just so well done, H. Thanks for taking the time to do this!

undine said...

Horace, thanks for collecting, organizing, and annotating these--and reading them!

Tiruncula said...

Horace, you are my hero. Thank you for all the work, and for the thoughtful job of organizing everything.

Sisyphus said...

Rock on Horace!

Bardiac said...

Wow, that's super! Thanks :)

moria said...

Jumping junipers, Horace. Thank you!!!

Anonymous said...

Wow, this is fantastic!! Thank you!

gwoertendyke said...

as everyone has said brilliantly, you're an angel. this is trully amazing--thank you for taking the time to organize all of the great reading on this--i hope word gets out for people to read!

wwwmama said...

So so great. Now when grad students ask me what blogging is and if it's useful, I can just send them to this one fab link and they'll be hooked.

anna/village vegan said...

As an undergraduate thinking about grad school--- thank you, thank you, thank you!!

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