What You Came for by Robert Peters

What You Came for by Robert Peters

Is graduate school right for you?
Should you get a master's or a Ph.D.?
How can you choose the best possible school?

This classic guide helps students answer these vital questions and much more. It will also help graduate students finish in less time, for less money, and with less trouble.

Based on interviews with career counselors, graduate students, and professors, Getting What You Came For is packed with real-life experiences. It has all the advice a student will need not only to survive but to thrive in graduate school, including: instructions on applying to school and for financial aid; how to excel on qualifying exams; how to manage academic politics--including hostile professors; and how to write and defend a top-notch thesis. Most important, it shows you how to land a job when you graduate.

Bob Peters, PhD, CEng, FIOA, CPhys, has worked in acoustics and noise control for than fifty years, in teaching, research, and consulting. He works with Applied Acoustic Design as a principal acoustic consultant, is a visiting fellow at London South Bank University, and teaches distance learning courses for the Institute of Acoustics. He is also the author of Routledge's Acoustics and Noise Control, 3rd edition, and the editor of CRC Press's Uncertainty in Acoustics, on acoustic measurements.