The Ten Commandments of Graduate School

The academic job market stinks. That doesn't mean you shouldn't get a Ph.D., but it does mean you will want to keep your options open and take care of yourself--no one will do it for you

It’s a holiday weekend, and I thought I would take a break. But here’s a revision of a post I wrote on my old blog, Tenured Radical, back in 2013: I still think this advice is pretty solid. If you do, too, send it to an entering or current graduate student, a young person considering graduate school, or a faculty member who might want to share it. And t…