As a grad student, you’re expected to be a full-time everything: student, teacher, researcher, collaborator, networker. Add on the life you’re supposed to have outside of school and it can be very overwhelming. That’s where GradHacker comes in.
Written by graduate students for graduate students, GradHacker is a collaborative blog and digital roundtable that came out of the Michigan State University’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative. The goal? To share and learn from each other how to ‘hack’ all aspects of grad life.
Our contributing authors are all graduate students from a variety of universities and disciplines. We are always accepting new authors or guest posts from any grad student in any university. We are dedicated to creating a community of grads who can benefit from hearing the stories, tips, and challenges of others who are experiencing the same things. The topics that we will tackle are just as varied as the individuals who are writing them […]. Posts discuss topics such as raising kids in grad school, how to propose a digital dissertation to your committee, how to volunteer in grad school, the basics of twitter, strategies for being a teaching assistant, and even healthy recipes.
GradHacker just launched this week, and it’s already proving to be a fantastic new resource for students with articles such as making your dissertation more accessible outside of academia and how to write an academic conference proposal. New articles will be published every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, so be sure to check it out and subscribe. You can also follow GradHacker on Facebook and Twitter.
