I know that career planning is on many students’ minds, even if graduation is still a few years way. So, I will alternate blogs about careers with blogs about graduate student lifestyle. This way, you can look forward to blogs about jobs every two weeks, and the other weeks I will give you lifestyle tips […]
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Adventure and Traveling for Students
I grew up in Budapest, Hungary, and we used to have a tradition at the end of the school year. Seven days before summer vacation, we began to spell the word “vakacio” (vacation in Hungarian) backwards. On the first day, we put a big “O” on the blackboard, the next day a big “I” before […]
Mastering LinkedIn for Job Searching and More!
It seems like these days when you ask someone for suggestions on online job-searching tools, they give you a long list, and at the end, they say, “and of course, Linked In.” LinkedIn started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in the fall of 2002, but just a few years later almost […]
The Cost of Graduate School – How Much Debt Can you Tolerate?
My friend Lisa (not her real name) struggled financially for years during the time she and her husband were graduate students. “I just wish we could complete our studies without having to worry about money. Being able to focus on our theses would seem like such a luxury.” Fortunately both Lisa and her husband were […]
What Does The PhD Job Market Look Like?
What does the PhD job market look like? This is a good question. Just a few weeks ago, the creators of Gradshare and I were chatting about this blog over a delicious plate of fried green tomatoes (the first, but certainly not the last, time I had this dainty dish). What is a current and […]