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When the four of us-graduate student editorial assistants who had helped develop and tabulate the]AH survey-were asked to contribute an essay on the results, we resolved to make ours a collaborative project. With no experience or models in our graduate training for collaboration, we began at Dot's home on the East Fork of the White River: we brainstormed; we shut ourselves up in a room and took turns at the keyboard; we looked wistfully at our spouses fishing on the riverbank; we took home parts we hated and rewrote them; and we argued. Individually, we caved in on some points and stood firm on others. We emerged with our first draft, somewhat chastened but even more committed to collaborative effort. Although the experiences and goals that brought us to graduate school were widely divergent, we discovered common ground in our shared experiences, misgivings, and frustrations in graduate school. But before we speak from that common ground, we want to describe our separate paths to graduate school.

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