Table of Contents

Getting ready for graduate school: Heading off to graduate school Preliminaries Essential elements of a graduate education: Pre-thesis work Thesis work Sticky wickets: Practical difficulties Moral difficulties Post-graduate-school existence: Life after the thesis Afterthoughts The elements of mathematics: Mathematics I need to know Glossary The administrative structure of a mathematics department and a university The academic ranks The academic composition of a mathematics department A checklist for graduate school Bibliography Index.