Some very good articles I stole from various places on graduate school in the field . . . . wish I would have read them earlier.

Sterns, S.C.  1987.  Some modest advice for graduate students.  Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 68: 145-150.

Huey, R. B. 1987.  Reply to Stearns: Some acynical advice for graduate students.  Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 68: 150-153.

Carson., W. P.  1999.  A primer on how to apply and get admitted to graduate school in ecology and evolutionary biology.  Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 80: 246-250.

Fischer, R.A., and S. L. King.  1998.  Suggestions for new and aspiring graduate students in wildlife science.  Wildlife Society Bulletin 26(1): 41-50.