How to be a good graduate student

[nibot]

How to be a good graduate student, and other stories.

How many programs do you think it is appropriate to apply to? (and how is that question best phrased?)

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[probablevacancy.livejournal.com]

If I were you, I think I would apply to a smaller number of schools, the good ones that you'd really like to go to. It seems that you have ways of keeping yourself gainfully employed, and if you have good projects to work on, what's the point of dropping that to go study somewhere that sucks? So, I guess what I'm saying is, no safety schools. As for how many *actual* schools to apply to, I got no clue.

"To how many programs do you think it is appropriate to apply" is grammatically correct, but clunky.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I think I agree.. it's the "keep pinging princeton" idea. (-: