ME TO STUDENT (practicing for a defense):”I love you, but I’m going to grill you!” STUDENT’S RESPONSE: “I’ll be the cheese!” – Notes to grad students preparing to defend proposals

Dear Graduate Students, That time is coming when you will have to defend your dissertation proposal to your committee, and they will decide if you are ready to move to the next step to prepare your dissertation research as a doctoral “candidate.” That transition from “student” to “candidate” […]