Unselling Graduate School

Getting through graduate school

‘In my experience, the two main things that make graduate school hard are the unstructured nature of the process, and the lack of information about what you should spend your time on,’ writes Marie desJardins in the pragmatic How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors. She’s right. Graduate students, for the most part, don’t get enough good advice, about how to succeed...

Graduate School Thesis Acceptance

Cabuk, Serdar Ph.D., Purdue University, December, 2006. Network Covert Channels: Design, Analysis, Detection, and Elimination. Major Professors: Carla E. Brodley and Eugene H. Spafford. Indirect communication channels have been effectively employed in the communications world to bypass mechanisms that do not permit direct communication between unauthorized parties. Such covert channels emerge a...

Graduate school: the movie

T here is a series of documentaries trackmg a group of British schoolchildren every seven years, that began when they were all at age seven with a film called Seven-up, and has now passed age 35. The films were made with an explicit assumption that social class and innate character, properties already apparent in a seven-year old, would be the defining characteristics of the adult's life. While...

Graduate school: the board game

GRADUATE SCHOOL of INDUSTRIAL ADMINISTRATION