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Some Modest advice for graduate students from
Stephen C. Stearns. Very
interesting articles to approach graduate life. Read this and the
following article with some background of the circumstances in which
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Some acynical advice for graduate students from
Raymond B. Huey
in response to the above articles by Stearns.
He explored quite an orthogonal approach to graduate school as put
forward by Stearns. Though some of it seems to be put it just to make
the article dramatically negating the above one. |
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Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science
from Mor Harchol-Balter also know
popularly as Grad School Talk. It can be useful for people who have just
started on the idea of going to graduate school. Most of the information
is pretty basic though. |
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PhD Rants and
Raves (Be afraid, Be very afraid) by
Yannis
Smaragdakis. This is a scary account of what PhD is all about. But
its good to have all point of views about something that you are going to
dedicate a good portion of your life to. |
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The Ph.D experience
by Mihir Bellare.
Though a little too personal account, it does succeeds in painting
a pretty decent and comprehensive picture of what goes on in research.
The article has some embedded question which you should try and answer
for yourself to understand whether research and PhD is really for you or
not. |
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So long and thanks for
the PhD! by Ronald T.
Azuma. I would say this is the best work of Ronald. Though general
in nature it surprisingly has some thing other to say than most articles
in this field. |
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The
Literature Search 'Till the End of the Universe. by
Ronald T. Azuma. This
article was written quite some time back and thus is a little outdated.
You can find reader wondering about the times when all the literature
would be on internet - fortunately for us, most of it is these days.
Also the article is somewhat specific to UNC but still worth a read. |
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Life, the Universe,
and Everything! by
Ronald T. Azuma. This article discusses how to go about tackling the
oral examination for PhD. Very useful advice. |
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Advice
for undergraduates considering graduate school by
Michael Langer. You can
find interesting comments on the often debated issue of Canadian
universities vs US universities. |
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Four Golden Lessons -
Advice to students at the start of their scientific careers by
Steven
Weinberg. This is a short but very very interesting essays based on
one of his commencement addresses. Very few articles start with a line
like "When I received my undergraduate degree - about hundred years ago
....". This dude is a Noble Laureate. |
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Manuel
Blum's Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student by
Manuel Blum. A decent
reading scattered with witty and funny aphorisms, poems and quotes. |
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Leo
Esaki's 5 Don'ts for success by
Leo Esaki.
This is from a description of some physics conference where Leo
supposedly made these comments. This dude is also a Noble Laureate. |
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A Day in the Life
of a Grad Student (this is so funny that it'll make u fall from the
chair) by Joe Wagner (not sure) |
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How to be a good
graduate student by Marie desJardins |
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Research
Dictionary (real funny, I think) by Graham, Jr., C. D., |
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You just
might be a graduate student if... (oh so funny) by anonymous |
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Lotto or Phd? by anonymous |
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