Introduction: On Being a Grad Student, Katherine A. Foss
1 Climbing the Next Rung: Making the Transition to Graduate Student, James Stewart
2 “This Is Kind of Like Your Superpower”: Double-Consciousness,Micro-Activism and Other Survival Strategies of Students on the Margins, Meredith D. Clark
3 Graduate Student Decisions, Susan Keith
4 Getting the Most Out of Your Graduate Assistantship, Amanda Sturgill
5 The Mindful Thesis or Dissertation: Finding the Focus to Write, Jan Lauren Boyles
6 Making Sense of (and Making the Most of) Academic Conferences, Jennifer Greer
7 Publishing as a Graduate Student, Denise Sevick Bortree and Richard D. Waters
8 Navigating the Job Market: Basic Mechanics and Peculiarities, David D. Perlmutter
9 The Degree and the Job Are Yours. What’s Next? Successfully Transitioning from Student to Professor, Marie Hardin
Glossary of Academic Terms