As graduate students, much of our life revolves around our education. We spend countless hours writing final essays and preparing for exams, to the point that our life as a student becomes second nature. If you’re like me, it is a part of your identity. More...

Early in my graduate student career, I simultaneously dreaded summer and longed for it. I felt dread because finding a summer job is notoriously difficult where I live and longing because I, like many of my colleagues, needed a respite from the demands of the academic year. More...

Final grades are submitted. Email inboxes have been cleaned out and offices have been tidied. Quiet has descended on campus. More...

After next week, GradHacker will be on summer break for a couple months. But, as every graduate student knows, this does not mean that we are spending our days with our feet in the sand and a beer in our hand (well, at least not everyday). More...

At this point, summer is here, and with it, a lot of unstructured time. So, we can work, right? We've all got to-do lists a mile long, largely populated with everything we didn't get done during the semester. (Or over winter break. Or the semester before that.) It’s nice to think that we can finally clear out our to-do lists. More...

Grades are in, and the sun is out! Summer is a great time to recharge and reflect on the academic year. For me, nothing is more relaxing and motivating than reading a good book. While there are plenty of great reads for graduate students, here is a summer reading list about science and from some of the best science writers. More...

I’m in the process of re-watching Seinfeld in its entirety, pilot-to-finale. The show is remarkable in many ways (for a complete show-biz history, I recommend the book Seinfeldia), but its focus on fundamental and even mundane human interactions means the jokes hold up more than 20 years later. More...