Category Archives: Advice

Application Support from the TheGradCafe

July 15, 2011 – 8:47 am

If you are thinking about applying to Grad School in the U.S. you need all the help you can get. There is always the literature and the EducationUSA advising centers to rely on, but there really isnt anything as powerful as the community of people who have applied before. Those who have gone through the same process as you have will know best. Thats just a fact. They have the most up-to-date information and know from experience everything from deadlines to the GRE-score it takes to get into Harvard. A good place to connect with that anonymous bunch, at least virtually, is the TheGradCafe.com. read more »

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Some Advice on Publishing

June 21, 2011 – 3:23 pm

keyboardphoto © 2007 Aleksandar Cocek | more info (via: Wylio)The earlier you publish the better. So once you start your academic career, look out for opportunities to do so. Ask professors, older graduate students, subscribe to listservs on H-Net and simply be ready to take every opportunity you can get. And be ready to start at the bottom. Intern at a publishing company over the summer, try to get an assistantship with a journal or an academic press at your institution, and offer your services to the countless journals devoted to promoting graduate students. You could also gather your fellow grad students and start your own journal. Impossible? Well, since 1999, the e-journal “49th Parallel” is published at the University of Birmingham, run almost exclusively by graduate students and almost certainly waiting for YOUR contribution: http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/
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