I found this book incredibly helpful while writing my thesis and planning the next steps of my career. Dr. Roche takes the mysticism out of academia and provides clear advice and useful resources to navigate a rather stressful field. His templates made writing my thesis far more manageable, as he provides a step-by-step guide to different goals within research. Dr. Roche's bits of encouragement, stories, and advice from his own career and from a variety of other colleagues were sprinkled throughout the book made me feel far less isolated. I could see that everyone else has been exactly where I was while writing my dissertation. I cannot stress enough the value of this text- I refer to it daily.