Advice for New PhD Students | How to Succeed in Graduate School!

My best advice for PhD students! Starting as a new PhD student is both exciting and terrifying. As a professor who now advises students and has directed a graduate school program, here are my best pieces of advice and tips for PhD students. (With bonus "ugh some of this is harder in 2020" content.)

0:00 Welcome!
02:19 Organize your citations.
04:18 It's ok that you don't know things.
06:07 Don't compare yourself to others.
09:06  Find your people.
11:04 Have a life outside your PhD.

Beyond-PhDers: What is YOUR advice for new PhD students?
New PhD students: What are your questions about grad school? Worries about PhD?
Answer in the comments!

Congrats on starting your PhD! Welcome to academia!  #gradschool #phd

RELEVANT LINKS
+ My original blog post: Medium: advice-for-new-phd-students-your-research-career-is-a-long-game
+ Advice for whether you SHOULD pursue a PhD, if you're not there yet: Should You Get a PhD??? | Reasons to ...
+ Reading recommendations: https://caseyfiesler.com/fiction-read...
+ Twitter thread about free time in academia: Twitter: 1289669835689848833

Find Me
+ TikTok TikTok: professorcasey​
+ Twitter Twitter: cfiesler

+CREDITS+
Happy celebration music courtesy of bensound.com ("Fun Day")

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