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157 Index ABD. See All But Dissertation accounting, 118 adjunct teaching. See teaching, adjunct admissions decisions. See graduate school: applications for advisors, 28, 36, 43–44, 59–63, 66, 69–70, 75, 76, 79, 84, 89 age, xvii, 3–5 All But Dissertation (ABD), 23, 45, 49, 75–76, 141 Alpher, Ralph, 97 American Association of University Professors, 84 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 43 anthropologists, xiv, 4, 29, 59 applications, job, and letters of recommendation , 91, 110 archaeologists, 28 assistantships. See research assistantships ; teaching assistantships astronomers, 28, 132 attrition, 35 Betha, Hans, 96 Binford, Henry, 43–44, 82 biologists, 29, 41, 132 botanists, 28 Bryn Mawr College, 87 careers, academic. See jobs, academic careers, nonacademic. See jobs, nonacademic Carnegie classifications, 141 character. See personality chemistry, 103 Chicago, University of, 87 children, 116, 126, 129–130, 154; and childcare, 18, 30, 44, 131; and maternity leave, 102; raising of, 4, 42, 112, 113–115, 124 Chronicle of Higher Education, xv, 122 citation index, 94 classes, 45–46, 53–55, 108, 131 collaboration, 39, 66, 91, 95–96, 103 committees. See dissertation committees ; thesis committees community colleges, 2, 22, 55, 117, 123, 128–129 comparative literature, 31, 66 computer science, 45 conference papers, 90–92 conference posters, 90 conferences, 74, 90–92, 120 coursework, 27–28, 29, 32–33, 42, 54–55, 63 credentials, xv, 10, 53, 76, 100 credits, 5 criticism. See feedback culture, academic, 34–35, 82–101, 105–106 curriculum vitae (CV), 15, 91, 96, 122, 133, 141; and job applications , 9, 20, 23, 42, 120 debt, 12, 13, 100, 113 degrees, professional, 2, 117 diplomas, 100 dissertation committees, 24, 45, 67, 70–71, 83–84 158 Index dissertations, xiv, 22, 28, 32–33, 40, 42–43, 45–47, 54–55, 64–81, 107, 144, 154; defense of, 51, 78–81; distribution of, 79, 81; formatting of, 80–81; proposals for, 46, 49–50, 71–73; royalties for, 67 doctoral candidates, 142 doctoral degrees, 133; non-Ph.D., 101 economists, 121, 132 editing, 68, 77–78 education, professional, 16, 26–27 emotions, 3, 39–40, 41, 58, 87–88, 109–113, 123–124, 153; of faculty , 79, 102, 132; and insecurities, 4, 37, 70–71, 105, 106–107; and personality, 32, 36; positive, 66, 100, 134–135 engineering, 35, 42 English, 66, 118 ethics, 73, 77–78 etiquette, 86–88 exams, 29, 45, 49, 55–59, 70, 87, 144 exercise physiology, 155 expertise, 6, 70, 78 faculty members. See professors faculty positions. See jobs, academic family. See relationships, family feedback, 42, 75, 90–91, 92–93; purpose of, 37–38, 59–60, 73, 77, 79 feelings. See emotions fellowships, 12, 13–16, 42–43, 72, 89 finances. See money foreign languages. See languages: non-English formatting. See under dissertations; under theses, master’s freedom, academic, 84 Gamow, George, 96 gender. See women geographers, 121 geologists, 41 GPA (Grade Point Average). See grades grades, 26, 66, 89, 110, 142; for exams, 56; incompletes, 25, 107; significance of, 7, 8, 16, 48, 51–53, 120 graduate school: applications for, 2, 4, 6–8, 51, 65, 89; costs of, 11, 12, 17, 99, 134; dropping out of, xv, xviii, 106–107; equipment for, 8, 10, 73; motivations for attending, 2–3; online, 9–10; prerequisites for, 5–6; regulations for, 21, 42, 44–45, 56, 75, 143–144; rewards of, 12–13, 18, 36–37, 89–90, 134–135 graduate students: culture of, 9, 28, 39; extracurricular activities of, 104–105; funding of, 7, 11, 12–24, 62–63, 69; part-time, 41, 44; poverty of, 18; and self-knowledge , xiv, xvii, 31, 39–40, 47, 53, 106–107, 115; status of, 18, 52, 87–90; success of, 31–33, 45–47 grants, 10, 13–16, 17, 19, 72, 92, 98, 118, 122, 130, 143 GRE (Graduate Record Exam), 7 Harvard University, 85 health, xvi, 36, 40–41, 131, 134; mental , 38, 39–40; physical, 18, 40–41 health insurance, 12, 18 historians, 29, 34, 67, 69, 118, 120, 132 humanities, xvii, 21, 93, 153, 155, 156; careers in, 105, 118; funding in, 13, 69, 128, 130, 143; research in, 53, 66; time to degree in, 43, 75 illness. See health impact factor, 95 Institutional Review Board (IRB), 69–70, 73, 137, 142 integrity, academic, 52, 77–78, 92 Ivy League, 24, 128–129 jobs, 103–104, 116–133; and twobody problem, 112–113, 116, 127, 144–145 jobs, academic, 21, 36, 61, 62–63, [3.21.231.245] Project MUSE (2024...

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