Advice for grad students: own it.

Recently, the always brilliant Jeremy Yoder put up a fantastic post with some unsolicited advice for getting through grad school. Then, he (on the advice of the ever-infallible Scicurious), decided to make a carnival of it: "Knowing What I Know Now". He put out the call for everyone's best tips. I happen to have been thinking a lot about this lately, and am more than happy to share my experiences. What follows is a mix of advice and just what happened with me, for better or worse. Hopefully it helps. Before I get started, though, let me explain where I am in this whole process. Right now I'm still in the thick of it. I'm three and a half years into my doctorate degree, with an approved proposal and my comprehensive exams looming around the corner. So this isn't advice from a veteran, per se—it's advice from a fellow soldier, ...