Nothing really worth learning can be reduced to a set of instructions. In grad school, your goal is to get at your mentor's tacit knowledge.
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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And this sort of thing does happen. A master-apprentice relationship is not unlike a romantic relationship, and gruesome breakups do occur.
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