"Where can new and prospective graduate students obtain
candid advice to enhance success in graduate school? Not from
most college science teaching journals which have almost
exclusively published advice for professors regarding teaching
undergraduates. Not from national organizations, graduate
schools, and university departments; for "official" advice is
rarely frank advice. And not from all faculty and senior graduate
students as laboratory lore, unless one is a select "insider."
Elsewhere, I have asserted that faculty ought to provide new and
prospective graduate students frank advice about becoming
scientists and doing science; here I present such advice."
Interested? The manuscript "An Insider’s Guide to Choosing a
Graduate Adviser and Research Projects in Laboratory Sciences"
appears in the _Journal of Chemical Education_, 1993, _70_,
303-306. A slightly different version is available via gopher.
At the Unix prompt type:
gopher alpha1.csd.uwm.edu
and follow this path:
UWM Information/Psychology/GraduateAdmission
While reading the file "advice," you can depress the "m" key to
mail the file to yourself.
In the file "frank-advice" you will find the following:
Dermer, M. L. (1992). Enhancing personal satisfaction,
professional success, and the quality of science–providing
frank advice. _Journal of College Science Teaching_, _21_,
200-201.
I look forward to comments.
–Marshall Lev Dermer
der…@csd.uwm.edu