Graduate students Nimisha Barton (History); Friederike Funk (Psychology); Josh Heyne (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering); Cory Hunter (Music); and Meghan O’Toole (Woodrow Wilson School) discuss, holistically, the life of a graduate student today—from conducting research and facing the job market to finding passions and social lives apart from the dissertation topic. Presented on the occassion of the Many Minds, Many Stripes conference for Princeton's graduate alumni.