Valarie Burke, director of Graduate Student Services, talks with Vaneh Darakjian, director of Communications and Marketing, during a writing boot camp at Lied Library in Las Vegas, Jan. 12, 2018. Burke, who got the boot camp idea from a Council of Graduate Schools Conference, said that research shows that most graduate students just need that extra push — such as a boot camp where all their time is dedicated to writing — to make it to the finish line. Andrea Cornejo Las Vegas Review-Journal @dreacornejo