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With fresh insights, concrete suggestions and exercises, and helpful lists of resources, this book gives grad students a new roadmap for not only surviving but thriving-both in school and in the real world.
List of contents
List of Exercises
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Planning Your Journey
1. What’s Next
2. Career Plans: Academia, or Not?
3. Money and Logistics
4. Making Grad School Work for You
Part II. Grad School Skills
5. Advisers
6. Labs, Classes, and Teaching
7. Research, Theses, and Dissertations
8. Managing Projects and Managing Time
9. Your Work and the World
Part III. The Rest of Your Life
10. It’s Just Grad School
11. Relationships and Family
12. Maintaining Your Sense of Self
13. Making Changes to Your School
14. What’s Next, Revisited
Glossary
Notes
Resources
Index
About the author
Jacqueline M. Kory-Westlund is a writer, artist, and independent scholar with the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship. She received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2019. As a student, she published many academic articles, earned top fellowships, got married and had kids, and even kept up with a couple hobbies. Kory-Westlund has worked for NASA developing autonomous vehicles and laser space robots, designed graphics for software startups, and currently consults for small businesses and think tanks on education, design, and technology.
Summary
With fresh insights, concrete suggestions and exercises, and helpful lists of resources, this book gives grad students a new roadmap for not only surviving but thriving—both in school and in the real world.
