Horace at To Delight and to Instruct has posted a call for contributions to a virtual anthology of advice about graduate school. The response has been terrific, with people writing new posts and drawing new attention to older ones.

Much of the advice is discouraging. Lumpenprofessoriat explains why:

Just as women who are pregnant can rely on friends and strangers to inundate them with every imaginable horror story concerning labor and delivery, so new graduate students can expect to hear every horror story about graduate school. My apologies in advance for scaring any prospective grad students.

Posts of note include:

- Dr. Virago's post on professionalization

- Jane Dark's answer to the question Is graduate school school, or a job?

- Dr. Crazy's two posts on becoming an academic

- Bardiac's post on what every grad student should know

If you've been to grad school, you should contribute. Simply leave a link in the comments to Horace's original post or tag your post "grad-compendium" for Technorati.

Leslie Madsen-Brooks, a recovering academic and an fledgling academic technologist, blogs at The Clutter Museum, Museum Blogging, and Green West Magazine.