Getting what you came for :
Peters, Robert L., 1951-
Getting what you came for : the smart student's guide to earning a Master's or a Ph. D / Robert L. Peters ; illustrations by the author. - Rev. ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. - xii, 399 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-386) and index.
This book can help (and you probably need it!)--What is graduate school like? -- Do you need to go? -- Should you work first? -- Choosing a school: the thesis adviser -- Choosing a school: secondary aspects -- Application and admission -- Improving your credentials for admission -- Financial aid -- The master's degree: history and hurdles -- The doctorate: history and hurdles -- Managing yourself -- Playing politics: building a reputation -- Master's comprehensive and Ph. D. qualifying examinations -- Choosing and managing your thesis committee -- The thesis topic: finding it -- The thesis proposal -- The thesis: writing it -- The thesis defense -- Oral presentations: the key to being a star -- Dealing with stress and depression -- The social milieu -- Swimming with the mainstream: returning students, women, minorities, and foreign students -- Bringing it all together: the job -- Appendix A: Buying your computer and software -- Appendix B: Useful internet addresses.
0374524777 9780374524777
Whitman College--Career Center materials.
Universities and colleges--Graduate work--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dissertations, Academic--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Graduate-School information.
LB2371.4 / .P48 1997
378.24
Getting what you came for : the smart student's guide to earning a Master's or a Ph. D / Robert L. Peters ; illustrations by the author. - Rev. ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. - xii, 399 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-386) and index.
This book can help (and you probably need it!)--What is graduate school like? -- Do you need to go? -- Should you work first? -- Choosing a school: the thesis adviser -- Choosing a school: secondary aspects -- Application and admission -- Improving your credentials for admission -- Financial aid -- The master's degree: history and hurdles -- The doctorate: history and hurdles -- Managing yourself -- Playing politics: building a reputation -- Master's comprehensive and Ph. D. qualifying examinations -- Choosing and managing your thesis committee -- The thesis topic: finding it -- The thesis proposal -- The thesis: writing it -- The thesis defense -- Oral presentations: the key to being a star -- Dealing with stress and depression -- The social milieu -- Swimming with the mainstream: returning students, women, minorities, and foreign students -- Bringing it all together: the job -- Appendix A: Buying your computer and software -- Appendix B: Useful internet addresses.
0374524777 9780374524777
Whitman College--Career Center materials.
Universities and colleges--Graduate work--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dissertations, Academic--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Graduate-School information.
LB2371.4 / .P48 1997
378.24