Weekly Links!

• OMG you guys I hit the motherlode. Of dissertation resources, that is. The Online Ph.D. Program blog (which is actually about online Ph.D. programs) has put together a great list of their "Top 100 Thesis and Dissertation References on the Web." It's got everything from databases to workflow tools to writing communities. But please, as you delve in, make sure you don't end up meta-dissertating. 
• Need a little beach reading this summer? Here's a good list of newish books on the state of higher education.
• Worried about "administrative bloat" in the academy? Don't, says Matt Reed. (Or do, say some of the commenters).
• All the gloom and doom getting you down? This guy says the key to being a happy graduate student may be to stop complaining, think positive, and manage your expectations. What, you mean like people with real jobs?
• A new report finds that blacks and hispanics take out more loans for grad school than whites and Asians. This article should be read on two levels: first, as an important reminder that racialized class inequality persists through graduate school, and second, because the report apparently is baffled by why  this may be the case, and suggests it may have to do with differences in future salary expectations, while not even considering private access to resources.