Another useful site for grad students

[Strangefox]

From a post on "The Chronicle of Higher Education":

GradHacker is a collaborative blog for grad students, by grad students. 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, and while the original idea for this spawned from the goal of teaching other grads about technology to ease their lives and help with networking, we want to expand the idea of ‘hacking’ to all aspects of grad life. 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.

[MoJingly]

I like it! Thanks for sharing!

[studentaffairsgrad]

Thanks Strangefox...I'm always on the lookout for other good sites!

[Zencarrot]

Looks like a really cool site. Thanks for sharing

[ZeeMore21]

The site is very helpful! Thanks!

[bluejay16]

Love it! Glad you shared it!

[Strangefox]

I am glad you all like it!

[newms]

Thanks for sharing - it looks very useful.

[Eigen]

Cool, is this the Grad Student offshoot of ProfHacker? I browse there occasionally, and have found it to be quite useful.

[Strangefox]

Cool, is this the Grad Student offshoot of ProfHacker?

Exactly.

[runonsentence]

You beat me to the punch with this thread!

[Argonaute]

It looks great! Thanks for sharing!

[runonsentence]

Cool, is this the Grad Student offshoot of ProfHacker?

It's inspired by ProfHacker, but isn't run by the same contributers. Per some connections, I think some people at MSU may have a hand in it. From the About page:

While the idea for the GradHacker website did come from a bootcamp that was first run by Michigan State University’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative, we were inspired by ProfHacker and continue to use them as the model. Without their original articles on hacking academic life, we would never have been able to create our own bootcamp focusing on graduate scholars. We are grateful to them for their articles which have aided us in our careers. Our hope is that we can use what we have learned from them and directly apply it to graduate lives. We stole, with permission, a lot of our design and policy information from Play the Past. Also, a major thanks to Ethan Watrall and everyone at MATRIX for supporting the team throughout this process. Cheers!

Edited June 3, 2011 by runonsentence