Choosing the right graduate school is a difficult and time-consuming task.
Failed love, professional competition, concerns about getting to the right graduate school or the right academic position, all are here and right out front.
But entering the social science realm of translational research--or the translational realm of the social sciences--isn't just about finding the right graduate program.
Published in 1995, it blames academia for the lack of African Americans with doctorates and states that "with proper undergraduate preparation, and in the right graduate environment, African Americans can and will become tomorrow's leading chemists in industry, education, and research".
Over the years, I've had a number of college students ask me if I have any advice to share about how to pick out the right grad program, so I thought it's a good time to share my top three tips for finding the right graduate school.
"[F]aculty feel graduate assistants are employees of the university, support the right of graduate students to bargain collectively, and believe collective bargaining is appropriate for graduate students.
Since 1969, when University of Wisconsin, Madison, students started the country's first union of graduate assistants, more than a dozen states have recognized the right of graduate students to organize unions on public campuses.
Mosby's own Right Wing graduate students had disappointed him.
He joined the Navy in 1942, right after graduating from Yale.
Right after graduate school, I founded a dot-com company in Austin, Tex.
