How to Communicate With Your Research Advisor:5 Essential Phrases Building a Healthy Graduate Student - Research Advisor Relationship Graduate students often stress about working with their research advisors. After all, a research advisor can make or break the graduate school experience. With the student-advisor relationship being one of the strongest predictors of graduate student success, it's no wonder students are sometimes anxious about interacting with their advisor, nervous about being perfect, and worried about being seen as incompetent.

3 Quick Habits to Improve Your Organization Developing organizational habits is vital to being more productive and efficient in graduate school. Every minute spent trying to locate something is a minute lost from getting things done. Plus, disorganization can lead you to feel confused, overwhelmed, and not sure where to start.1 So, here are three quick habits that will instantly improve your organization in graduate school!

How to Choose a Ph.D. Advisor Today, we are going to focus on how to go about evaluating and choosing a thesis/research/Ph.D. advisor (we're just going to say Ph.D. advisor from here on out, see also Part 1). The student-advisor relationship is the strongest predictor of grad. student success, so it's vital to learn how to choose a Ph.D. advisor and the factors to consider when evaluating your possibilities.

How to Reach Out to Potential Ph.D. Advisors Part 2 of the All About PH.D. Advisors Series | See Part 1 Ph.D. programs are more competitive than ever. More applicants are fighting over fewer spots and less funding. For many aspiring doctoral students, reaching out to potential advisors is a vital step toward investigating program opportunities, securing funding, and identifying a supportive advisor.

PhD Advisors: A Primer About Advisors in Doctoral Programs We talk a lot about how confusing graduate school can be, with unstandardized procedures and vocabulary, varying dissertation requirements, and an excess of specialized jargon. Figuring out how to be a graduate student could be a degree all on its own. Nowhere is this clearer than the uncertainty surrounding academic and research advisors.

How to Do Things You Don't Want to Do: 3 Quick Tips Motivation is a fickle thing. This is especially true in graduate school where your deadlines are hazy in the distance and the steps to completing your degree range from tedious to overwhelming. Productivity can be a fight. So, it's no surprise that you are looking for tips on how to do the things you don't want to do.

Kick Academic Writer's Block in the Ass Academic writing is hard on a good day and not all days are good. Sometimes you know you need to work on a paper, but you draw a blank every time you sit down to work on it. You spend hours struggling to pull words from your mind and get them on the page.

3 Ways to Improve Your Academic Writing Instantly Oh! Students These Days! "Students don't know how to write" is a common refrain of professors worldwide. This lament echoes behind closed office doors even in graduate school. However, as often as these dreaded words are uttered, few professors take the time to teach their students how to improve their academic writing.

How Many Graduate (Master’s or Ph.D. Programs) Should I Apply to? Two common questions we hear from aspiring graduate students are 1) Should I apply to multiple graduate programs? and 2) How many master’s or Ph.D. programs should I apply to? While there’s no magical one-size-fits-all answer, we can share with you the things you need to consider when deciding how many graduate programs you should apply to.

Goal Setting for Frustrated Graduate Students Are You Productivity Challenged?Quick Tips for More Effective Goal Setting for Grad Students A lot of graduate students struggle to make progress on long-term projects like theses and dissertations, where the far-away deadlines feel ephemeral and there are no immediate consequences to procrastinating. They set goals to complete their degree and make timelines with the best of intentions, but each day goes by with little progress.

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