More Grad School Advice

Blogs are a great place to learn about people’s experiences with grad school and transitions to faculty positions.  There are a lot of individual blogs that chronicle people’s lives and there are several group blogs, typically tied to a particular discipline or sub-field, that have branched into the business of collecting advice on different topics related to academia.  Since I haven’t found time to maintain a blogroll for this site, I’ll just highlight two of them here.  Orgtheory.net has a series called grad skool rulz that I’ve mentioned before.  They continue to add topics to the series.  Scatterplot, a group sociology blog, has a series called “ask a scatterbrain” that often includes good advice for grad students.  Two of their recent conversations that I found interesting were managing conflict and co-authoring.