For more than 30 years now, the author has benefited in his professional practice in student affairs from having attended some terrific graduate programs. His lack of knowledge of certain topics wasn't necessarily his programs' fault. Maybe the information was presented, but he wasn't ready to take it in. Or perhaps certain topics weren't considered important back then or were viewed as inappropriate to discuss or too difficult to teach. Giving depositions and court testimony, handling internal politics, moving up the ranks, and loss and grieving are some of the lessons that the author now realizes would have been helpful to have started learning in graduate school.