When you publish a journal paper, it needs to have new set of contributions.  It is hard to publish a journal paper if someone has solved a problem before.  My recommendation would be to work on a different exciting and novel project.   To survive in a graduate school, you need to be mentally prepared and disciplined.  I received my phd from a reputed school in USA.  I worked very hard for 4 years (10-12 hours a day for 6 days a week).  I am pasting a couple of links which I think are great from my past experience. http://matt.might.net/articles... http://matt.might.net/articles... Hope this helps. Last edited: 03-Sep-12 11:13 PM

truenepalidude · Sep 3, 2012 9:14 PM