Career Focus
How to Find the Right Advisor
Finding the right advisor can make or break your grad school experience. Here’s how to choose wisely.
When you enter grad school, you are immediately faced with a barrage of choices: which courses to take, where to find funding, which topic to study, etc. It’s easy to see how finding an advisor can fall to the bottom the list. Yet it is one of the most important steps you can take toward launching a successful scientific career, since a good advisor can help you to tackle all those other decisions effectively. Too many talented students fail in graduate school because they lack the support of a strong mentor.
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