Becoming a graduate student is the dream of many college students. When we break through from the postgraduate entrance examination army or are lucky enough to become a graduate student after being sent to graduate school, how to start our postgraduate career is a problem worthy of repeated consideration. The days of graduate school are novel and tense. Faced with this completely different study life from the undergraduate stage, some graduate students may be at a loss and waste their time. Some graduate students are like a duck to water and go straight to a brighter future. Therefore, how to plan the life of graduate students is very important. I have always believed that graduate school is not only a pilgrimage to the academic hall, but also a way of life practice. Lao Tzu once said, "Staff Sergeant is diligent and has done it. The sergeant heard that if he survived, he would die. The corporal laughed at this. Just laughing is not enough. "Graduate school is to ask, but there is a way to ask. Follow-up: What is graduate school? With the expansion of university enrollment, the number of college graduates is also increasing year by year. Employment difficulties have become a crucial problem faced by college graduates, and postgraduate entrance examination has become an effective way to alleviate employment pressure. This means that some graduate students may study at first to relieve the pressure of employment, rather than because they like academics. For this kind of graduate students, they lack the interest and goal of engaging in academic research after graduate school. Of course, for most graduate students, graduate school is an academic ideal pursued in universities, so postgraduate entrance examination was a clear life goal at that time, and the success of postgraduate entrance examination means the realization of this goal. However, it is worth noting that postgraduate entrance examination is different from postgraduate entrance examination. If the postgraduate entrance examination is the learning goal in the university, then one needs a new goal or ideal to support himself. Therefore, during graduate school, you need to ask yourself frequently: Why do you want to go to graduate school? How to go to graduate school? This kind of questioning or reflection can help you maintain a good attitude and research status during your graduate study. Only by being calm can we maintain our enthusiasm for graduate study. Graduate school is relatively hard. Reading and research day and night need other leisure activities to adjust. Of course, for real scholars, graduate school itself is a happy thing, and graduate school does not mean that their lives are boring or completely boring. Mr. Yu, a famous scholar, once asked in his masterpiece "Cultural Journey": "Why do we become so monotonous and embarrassed when we do a little learning? If every improvement in learning is at the expense of the decline of life, what is the ultimate goal of secular learning? "Actually, graduate school is your own personal choice. Since you have chosen this path, you should be responsible for your choice. More importantly, it is necessary to make the seemingly poor life of graduate school interesting. Graduate school is the beginning of academic research, so it is important to keep a cool mind. Graduate school means choosing a road leading to the academic hall, which is completely different from the road of politics and business. For those who really engage in academic research, academic research may be similar to becoming a monk and need to live a poor life. When we look at those former classmates who have already taken part in the work, standing in front of us with high salaries and well-dressed, we are likely to have self-doubt about our choice of graduate school, and sometimes even feel that this poor graduate school life is completely meaningless. At this time, many graduate students will think that life will be better if they take part in work instead of graduate school. In fact, graduate school has an opportunity cost, and choosing the opportunity of graduate school means giving up other opportunities. At this time, we should strengthen our choice of graduate study, treat it with a calm mind, and constantly cultivate our academic interest through reading. In fact, academic research has reached a critical juncture, and what supports you to continue is academic interest and academic ideals. Therefore, it is necessary to have academic ideals and stick to the road of graduate school, so that the boring life of graduate school becomes meaningful. To sort out the academic value from reading, graduate students need to learn to sort out a lot of materials and sort out things with academic value. Graduate students of science and engineering may pay more attention to doing experiments to obtain data, but graduate students of liberal arts must read a lot of works. Reading is the basic skill of graduate students, and reading thousands of books shows its meaning. Only by reading a lot can you be familiar with the research situation in your field. Of course, graduate students should pay attention to methods and read basic works in their own research fields, especially the works of well-known scholars. Generally speaking, well-known scholars are academic authorities. By reading their works, we can quickly understand where the academic frontier in this field is at present, and we can also know what hot issues these famous scholars are paying attention to. My tutor often tells me that as long as a graduate student reads or is reading something, he will know the academic level of the student, because a graduate student who is sensitive to academics will identify good books in this field and read first-class works; On the contrary, those graduate students who can't read often read some second-rate works. Therefore, reading must first read first-class works. After reading these works, it is possible to think on the same starting line as the first-class scholars and possibly surpass them. There are many works that graduate students need to read, so intensive reading and extensive reading must be combined. Because the postgraduate stage is to learn how to start engaging in academic research, and it is in the primary stage of engaging in academic research, so you need to carry out your own academic training through reading. The combination of intensive reading and extensive reading is the most effective training method: intensive reading can train your thinking ability, and extensive reading can expand your knowledge. Intensive reading is very helpful to train your thinking ability, which requires you to read some classic works with difficult thoughts. On the one hand, familiarizing yourself with classic works is the best way to enter the academic pedigree of this field, that is, to know what problems the former academic masters in this field are thinking or how they think about them; On the other hand, by familiarizing yourself with classic works, you will gradually master a set of concepts, and these concepts and their expressions will gradually enter your own thinking structure and become a part of yourself, just like the blood that is input into your body. After a period of training, you will find that you can look at the world with a set of concepts in classic works, and your thinking ability has been improved invisibly. In extensive reading, you should read more works outside your research field and expand your knowledge. This means that reading should not be restricted by majors. For example, in the case of liberal arts, China's traditional academic thought that literature, history and philosophy are interlinked. Therefore, expanding knowledge is to break the boundaries of disciplines. For a mature discipline or research field, the academic resources in this field have been combed by predecessors, and those so-called academic authorities have established their right to speak in this field. Although it is possible to find new things in this field, it is already very difficult, which requires finding inspiration or new methods from other majors or disciplines. In fact, many new academic forces are at the intersection of disciplines, and trying to conduct interdisciplinary research often leads to unexpected gains. There is a huge difference between the learning style of graduate students who are changing from "knowledge consumers" to "knowledge producers" and that of undergraduates. In the undergraduate stage, learning is mainly taught by teachers, students are passive recipients of knowledge, and knowledge is basically instilled. In the postgraduate stage, the tutor mainly teaches graduate students the methods of academic research. Graduate students need to doubt and criticize the knowledge they once had, and study in a reflective spirit, instead of blindly following the opinions of academic authorities. Of course, the study of graduate students is mainly self-study under the guidance of tutors, but in fact, the time for tutors to guide students is quite limited, and most of the time during the postgraduate period is dominated by graduate students themselves. In the relatively free time, how to spend time on self-study becomes very important. Different from college students' learning knowledge in the undergraduate stage, the learning goal of graduate students is mainly to "learn to learn", that is, learning ability and learning methods. "Learning" means learning with a tutor; The "learning" of "learning" means that birds learn to fly according to the explanation of Zhu, a great scholar, that is, they do what their teachers teach them. So graduate students should start from a pure knowledge consumer and become knowledge producers. Just like a sweater worn in winter, you don't need to buy someone else's, you have to try to knit it yourself. Of course, the knowledge you have just produced may be rough or even naive in the eyes of your tutor, but you should try to do better than the previous one, just like Einstein's small bench when he was a child. Practice: Acquisition of Academic Resources Postgraduates' learning is oriented to academic research, and mastering academic resources or materials is the basis for engaging in academic research. From my graduate experience, there are three effective ways to obtain academic resources: library, tutor and lecture. The library is a mine library, and the academic resources are most concentrated in a university or research institution. How to make good use of the library is the key to obtain academic resources. When I was a graduate student, I often wandered around the library to find out what I was interested in from the rich collection of books in the library. Of course, making good use of the library does not mean studying in the library all day. I think we should get familiar with the library first, and find out what works belong to our own research field in this library, which is very helpful for the writing of dissertations in the future. However, it should be noted that the library is rich in books, and it is impossible for a person to travel all over the ocean of knowledge with limited time and energy, so he should choose to read. Graduate students should focus on their own topics of interest, that is, they should focus on the same problem or field for a period of time. There is a sentence to the effect that an experienced librarian can predict a graduate student's academic future by looking at his borrowing books. Their experience is as follows: graduate students who can read generally borrow the bibliography of the same subject, which is a must-read bibliography in this field; And those graduate students who can't read books borrow books at will every time, without a fixed theme, and generally can't tell which books are required to read. At the same time, graduate students should also understand the academic profile outside their own professional fields. I often browse in front of the bookshelves in the library, casually browsing the catalogues, prefaces and epilogues of various works on the bookshelves. After a long time, I can basically know what important works in humanities and social sciences I am interested in, such as law, philosophy, sociology and political science. And know which shelf these works are on in the library, so that you can expand your knowledge invisibly by browsing casually. In a word, the library is a mine to be excavated, and graduate study is a process of excavation. Be sure to dig out heavy gold mines in it, otherwise it will feel like "going to Baoshan and returning empty-handed" when you graduate. Tutor is a bright light, and establishing a good relationship with tutor is a compulsory course for graduate students. On the one hand, the tutor, as the instructor of the dissertation, can give good academic guidance; On the other hand, tutors usually have their own rich social experience and activities, which will be of great help to graduate students in finding jobs, going abroad and taking entrance examinations. They are good teachers in life. With the enrollment expansion of graduate students, more and more graduate students are brought by tutors, and because some tutors have relevant administrative positions, there are not many opportunities for graduate students to communicate with tutors. How to get the guidance of the tutor in time and effectively requires certain methods. This requires graduate students to take the initiative to contact the tutor, and they can usually take their own papers to give guidance to the tutor for revision. This is the most effective method. In this way, the tutor can know your recent reading situation through the paper, and also show his studious side to the tutor. I often talk to my tutor. During the conversation, my tutor often tells me some important academic information, such as what important articles or new books a famous scholar has written recently. In addition, my tutor often talks to me about his research status and what research results he has. In fact, the academic information taught by the tutor can not be obtained directly from books, but it is the most beneficial. This lecture is a feast. Graduate students need to pay attention to cutting-edge academic issues, so they must always pay attention to cutting-edge academic information. These academic information can be learned by reading professional journals in this field, and another important way is academic lectures. Scholars who give academic lectures all talk about his recent research experience, and some even talk about his life-long research experience. By listening to the lectures of famous scholars, you can quickly enter the academic frontier in this field. My experience is that sometimes listening to a lecture by a famous teacher is better than reading his ten books, which is by no means an exaggeration. By attending classes, we can intuitively feel the academic atmosphere, get close to this famous scholar and feel his academic aura, so that we can see how those famous scholars who can only see in books actually study and study. After listening to lectures, I often feel this way. It turns out that those so-called well-known scholars or academic authorities are so much. Therefore, attending classes is a process of disenchanting famous professors or academic authorities, and in this process, you can exercise your academic appreciation ability and taste. Outlook: You must face the future life choices during the pre-graduate operation, and you must know what you will do after graduation: Do you want to work? Or continue to study? In fact, this problem should be considered at the beginning of graduate school, and carefully prepared in combination with your own interests and life ideals. If you don't plan to continue your academic research in the future, but want to work after graduation, you can take a part-time job during graduate school or practice in the society, and publish more papers, which can increase the weight of finding a job. If you plan to engage in academic research in the future and want to pursue further studies, such as studying for a doctorate or studying abroad, you should start preparing early. I plan to continue my studies after graduation from the beginning of graduate school, so I have paid great attention to collecting information about Kaobo since the beginning of graduate school. Because Kao Bo has high requirements for English, I usually spend a lot of time learning English. In addition, Kaobo has strict requirements for specialized courses, but it generally tests the basic knowledge of specialized fields, so it takes some time to get familiar with the basic situation of the tested fields, and you should contact your tutor in time after choosing the direction of Kaobo. Doctoral supervisors generally attach great importance to candidates' training prospects, pay great attention to candidates' understanding of their academic situation in their professional fields, and ask candidates to understand their research interests and directions. Generally speaking, doctoral tutors will recruit graduate students with similar temperament or interests, so before the exam, try to let the tutors know themselves, at least have a basic impression of themselves. Cobo needs other teachers to write letters of recommendation. If the teacher who writes the recommendation letter knows his doctoral supervisor, the effect of the examination will be better. Since the time for preparing for postgraduate entrance examination is also the best time for thesis writing, once the goal of postgraduate entrance examination is established, the relationship between master's thesis writing and postgraduate entrance examination should be handled well. Generally speaking, the future doctoral thesis is an extension of the master's thesis. Therefore, when choosing a topic for a master's thesis, we should pay attention to the extensibility of the thesis itself, that is, whether this topic is worth further study in the future. Doctoral supervisors will attach great importance to the level of master's degree thesis during the examination, so the writing of degree thesis should be combined with the examination, and the writing of degree thesis should be regarded as a process of preparing for the exam, so as to clarify their own ideas and improve their expression ability through the writing of the thesis. Except for the tutor, all the students in the graduate stage are classmates. For graduate students of the same major, students have the same or similar knowledge background and academic interests, so more communication with students of this major can deepen their understanding of professional knowledge. At the same time, we should also communicate with graduate students of other majors, so as to obtain a lot of valuable academic information and resources. Among your classmates, you will find your own role model and role model, and even find like-minded schoolmates. Reading with classmates and learning from each other will greatly improve their academic ability. Although as the saying goes, "there is no hero in the eyes of servants", we should be good at discovering the advantages of our classmates and cultivate our open mind with a studious heart. In fact, a good classmate relationship is the most precious social resource in your future life in this society that pays attention to human relations in China. Of course, a good classmate relationship will also make you full of warmth and fun in graduate life. Every university has its own unique campus culture and academic temperament. Postgraduate study is to receive academic edification and training in this historical academic culture. Therefore, graduate students should integrate into their own universities or research institutions, their own academic atmosphere and their own academic traditions as soon as possible; Students who are preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination should also determine their own direction as soon as possible and integrate into the atmosphere of postgraduate entrance examination. As long as they irrigate with hard sweat, they will surely blossom beautiful academic flowers and bear heavy academic fruits.