I think the main thing to know is that your fellow students are likely to be the best part of the experience. But your mentor is crucial.
An unfair fact of grad school is that persistent extroverts have an easier time extracting high-value tacit knowledge from their mentors.
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But never forget that, of all god's creatures, the grad student is the most vulnerable.
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If your mentor rejects you late in the game, you're doomed. His/her colleagues will not intervene to save you, nor will the university.
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