Here's a smattering of articles I've collected, YMMV: http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-a-professor http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-a-profe

Here's a smattering of articles I've collected, YMMV: http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-a-professor http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-a-professor http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/work-hard/ http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/work-hard/ http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/05/secret-lives-of-professors.html http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/05/secret-lives-of-profe... http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-life.htm http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-life.htm http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000197 http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo... http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/howiwork.html http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/howiwork.html http://www.ams.org/notices/199701/comm-rota.pdf http://www.ams.org/notices/199701/comm-rota.pdf http://matt.might.net/articles/books-papers-materials-for-graduate-students/ http://matt.might.net/articles/books-papers-materials-for-gr... And the classic: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html Good luck.