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Surviving the Ph.D.: Hints for Navigating the Sometimes Stormy Seas of Graduate Education in Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2002

David B. Cohen
David B. Cohen
Affiliation:
The University of Akron
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Abstract

The scene is a familiar one: two graduate students, alike in most respects, but headed down divergent paths. Both students entered the Ph.D. program in political science at the same time with similar credentials and similar goals. While having coffee one day, the two reminisced about their graduate experiences and their respective futures. Graduate Student X was lamenting that after four full years in the Ph.D. program, he still hadn't reached the dissertation stage. Graduate Student Y, on the other hand, was in very good spirits—she had finished the dissertation and secured the job of her choice. What distinguishes these two very similar individuals who achieved very different results?

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THE PROFESSION
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 585 - 588
Copyright
© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

The author would like to thank Blake Brunner, Jerrell Coggburn, and Cornelia Reed for their helpful comments on this manuscript. Any errors or omissions, however, are the sole responsibility of the author.