Aurora Washington and Rebekah Layton advise students from historically excluded groups on the benefits of networking, mentoring up and career planning. Navigating graduate school can feel like taking the road trip you had been dreaming about but with an outdated road map. One of the authors of this essay, Aurora, thought getting into her dream graduate program would be smooth sailing if she produced quality research and excelled in her classes. Little did she know that she, in fact, needed to excel in an underlying invisible curriculum.