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Tips on How to Pay Your Student Loans after Graduation
If there is one thing you can anticipate from graduate school, then that would be the high cost of tuition. To get the much-needed funds to support their education, many students resort to applying for student loans. Applying for a student loan, however, is a lot easier than paying for it. Here are some tips [...]
Time Management in Graduate School
Surviving college is not an easy task so if you are planning to farther your studies in graduate school, you have to be prepared for everything. The challenges in graduate school are several notches more difficult than college – tougher professors and harder subjects. The key to surviving graduate school, like in college, is excellent [...]
How to Avoid Sexual Harassment while Working as a Teaching or Research Assistant
Sexual harassment, regardless of your status or location, may happen to almost anybody. Even to a teaching assistant like you. Even your accordant relationship with your professor might lead to something that is worthy of being called sexual harassment. Personal preparation Sexual harassment occurs everywhere. You may get sexually harassed in an office, in a [...]
Factors to Consider When Choosing a Graduate School
Having trouble deciding which graduate school to apply to? Worry no more. Here are some of the factors you need to consider when choosing a graduate school: Graduate degrees offered The first thing you have to look for when browsing through your graduate school options is the list of graduate studies offered. What specific field [...]
How to Juggle Graduate School and Part-time Jobs
Academic excellence is still possible even if you have a part-time job to worry about. Time management, after all, is the secret to getting all your tasks done. You have to remember, though, that proper time management is not the only thing you need to find success both in your job and your studies. Here [...]
Understanding MLA, APA, and Turabian Citations
Citing sources in graduate school papers must be done with extra care and caution. Submitting a graduate school paper bearing improperly written citations might give your professor an impression that you either rushed the assignment or ignored the details. Here are some of the things you need to know about MLA, APA, and Turabian styles [...]
Foreign Students: Applying to a US Graduate School and Getting a Green Card
US graduate schools normally accept foreign students from all around the world. The cultural, intellectual, and experiential diversity of schools are enriched by the presence of foreign students. Still, your chances of getting into the graduate school will depend on how well you compare with other students. Aside from this, you will have to consider [...]
Bad Study Habits You Should Get Rid Of
If being an “A” student is what you’re after, there are lots of ways to that, and there are tons of books and articles that can give these tips to you. But before you set off to the path that these articles and books will lay out for you, take this as a head start. [...]
Top Five Most Prestigious Graduate School Programs in the United States
Until now, there is no single organization that is authorized to rank graduate school programs in the US. This is why the rankings of various graduate school programs vary. Different institutions use different methodologies when it comes to gathering and analyzing data about graduate school programs, producing dissimilar results. Ranking results are also made complicated [...]
Not Just for those Interested in the Academe: Reasons to Pursue an Advanced Degree
Graduating from college may mean different things to different people; it can end your stay in the campus and have you looking for jobs; or, it can mean that you’re now eligible for getting an advanced degree. You may feel lost after graduation and not know what to do next. This is a good time [...]