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Graduate Student Resources

in graduate school on 19 August 2015

Summary

Providing links to some articles and other resources that I have found useful while in graduate school. I'll continually update the list as I find more.

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Graduate school is both extraordinarily rewarding and demanding at the same time. Getting perspectives on what to expect, how to anticipate and deal with potential problems, and just hearing the experiences of others can be invaluable.

Below are a series of resources/articles both for starting graduate students and those already well along their way. I originally assembled this list to help mentees as part of our Stanford Biology mentorship program (update: I have included it in the Stanford Biosciences Student Association (SBSA) handbook to make more graduate students in the Biosciences aware of these resources). I plan to add additional articles dealing with different stages of graduate school, including career-related decisions as the finish line approaches. I thank all those who have made me aware of certain resources going into and throughout graduate school.

If you have suggestions for articles to include or resources to add, shoot me an email or add them in the comments section below.

Advice for starting graduate students: choosing a lab

Advice for starting graduate students: being successful

Career

Mentoring

-biafra
bahanonu [at] alum.mit.edu

more articles to enjoy:

citizenship, war and social networks
09 september 2012 | essay
Scott Adams recently wrote about citizenship and how the Internet [...]will bring the fall of territory-based national governments, and by extension wars. In this post I briefly highlight where he errs and give reasons why country divides will only grow sharper in the coming decades, in part due to competition for dwindling water, oil and other resources along with increasingly fraught intranational civil relations.

social chair spring 2012
27 december 2011 | psk
My terms as social chair during Fall 2011 went quite well, but there were several things I was unsatisfied with. This presentation outlines[...] several different areas I would like to see improved.

wary statistics #1: the tale of cdc mortality
06 april 2020 | statistics
I will briefly discuss properly interpreting data you might see in the mainstream or on social media. The takeaway: if recent data for some[...] measure (e.g. pneumonia deaths) from this year looks to be different than prior years, make sure to check that it is not an artifact of data collection or compilation.

bio42: notes
12 may 2013 | teaching
While teaching bio42 (cell biology and animal physiology) I created weekly notes to help students in my section study and focus on the impo[...]rtant materials presented in the class. I built off of the latex boilerplate that I have been improving over time to create weekly notes. This highlights why I love LaTeX so much, especially for larger projects that are heavily linked—it allows easy annotation, indexing, creation of new document styles, and other related processes rapidly and consistently. Plus, separating content and style is always a plus and images stay uncoupled from a propriety source (e.g. Word files).

I really love the resulting notes and student feedback was quite positive. I thought sharing them might be useful for others in the future. The source latex files and raw images can be sent upon request (I'm considering making a Github repository in the future). I'll briefly talk about the document below and certain decisions that were made to get it to its current state.

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