Survival,
Part II:
Personal Resources
This is a new topic for your digital advisor. As you
know, we digital beings don't have emotional or personal
needs. Nonetheless, I understand from other students that
some of you do, so I am beginning this new page. Please
let my human caretaker, Mary Kennedy, know of other resources
that should be listed here.
Family Sustenance
If
you are trying to manage doctoral studies and a family
as well, you will probably benefit by connecting to the
Family
Resource Center. This wonderful place was recommended
by a harried doctoral student just like you. This center
connects you to babysitters, other parents, counselors,
and a variety of forms of assistance. Connect with other
parents to share advice, sitters, cribs and clothing.
They provide free emergency back up babysitting too. Learn
about this place and take advantage of it.
Housing
The university manages a couple of searchable indexes that might be
of help here. If not, try the bathroom stalls in Erickson Hall. Lots
of people place ads for sub-lets inside these.
https://www.findcollegerentals.com/lansing/index.php?s=11
Survival Courses
The University also
offers courses for doctoral students that are geared toward where you
are in your program. You can go to the Career
and Professional Development web site to learn more about
available courses and their schedules. This program is sponsored by
the Graduate School.
Financial Assistance
Teaching Assistantships
Most
teaching assistantships in the department are nested
in our teams. The best person to contact about vacancies
is Sharon
Schwille.
Research Assistantships
These
are harder to find out about. They are not regularly scheduled,
semester after semester, as teaching assistantships are.
They come up suddenly and the positions tend to be filled
quickly so that the projects can get under way. The best
way to get one is to make sure that grant-active faculty
know you are looking for one. Send an e-mail out to those
faculty who tend to do work of the sort you think you
would be interested in. Cast a relatively broad net and
repeat your inquiry at regular intervals because research
funding is very capricious and unpredictabl
Fellowships and Scholarships
are all listed on a department web page.
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