The Ph.D. process: a student's guide to graduate school in the sciences

Deciding to go to graduate school

Selecting an advisor : whose lab is right for me?

The stages of graduate school

Classes, journal clubs, lab meetings, and seminars

The absent professor

How you learn

Deciding on research projects for your dissertation

Networking

Picking a dissertation committee, and defending the proposal at the preliminary oral exam

The life of a graduate student

Some additional aspects of graduate school life : lab notebooks, etiquette, competition, luck

Do I belong here? : insecurity and stress

Foreign students : unique problems and stresses

On the art of scientific writing

What should your goals be while in graduate school?

Times they are a-changing

The end is in sight : writing the dissertation

The final oral exam (the defense).