One of the adjustments to starting grad school is figuring out how to do the work of a graduate student. Your department and your advisor should help you out here, but there are many resources that Cornell provides as well. These resources can help you with day-to-day aspects of being a grad student, as well as more unusual needs. This chapter summarizes some of the most common resources that grad students use. However, you should also ask around your own department (the faculty, the graduate students, and the staff) if there are labs, storerooms, photocopiers, or other facilities that grad students in your department use. Access to these things is sometimes available only if you ask.