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1. Meet and Greet

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   Meet other newbies enrolling at the same school you are.

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   • Carleton MPPA Class of ‘25
   • By BlackEnchantment, March 23
2. Officially Grads

   Now that you're in, what about relocating, school supplies, housing, Grad Life, etc.

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   • UBC Housing?
   • By dimsum_johnson, March 29
3. Coursework, Advising, and Exams

   What do I take? What about my grades? What about my *$%^ advisor? What about comps/quals/becoming ABD?

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   • transferring to a different program within the same university?
   • By fossati, March 16
4. Research

   How do I pick a research topic? Organize my notes? Find data? Pick which lab to join? Ask and answer questions about how to do research here.

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   • Motivational support for a depressed grad student working on master's thesis (with updates maybe?)
   • By PearsthePlatypus, April 23
5. Teaching

   I have a TA position, now what?

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   • AI Generated Essays
   • By Payytrike, May 8
6. Writing, Presenting and Publishing

   This is the place to discuss writing (theses, conference and journal papers, etc.), presenting (powerpoint, LaTeX/Beamer??) and publishing.

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   • Is making corrections on thesis OK after examiners approved but before submission? un-watch this thread
   • By despoxcam, January 23
7. Jobs

   Whoa. You're about to graduate. What now?!?!

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   • Less than perfect English an obstacle to getting teaching job?
   • By theofan, May 13