Graduate School Tips

Post date: Sep 20, 2014 2:43:52 PM

My favorite comics from phdcomics.com:

• https://sites.google.com/site/iguvenc/phd-comics

General Graduate School Tips:

• Do you really want to have a Ph.D.?: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf

• Expectations from graduate students: http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/~brett/lab/documents/Brettsexpectationsforgradstudents.pdf

• How to be a good graduate student: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.html

• Graduate study in the computer and mathematical sciences: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~oleary/gradstudy/gradstudy.html

• How to fail a Ph.D.: http://robjhyndman.com/researchtips/phdfail/

• 10 Easy Ways to Fail a Ph.D.: http://matt.might.net/articles/ways-to-fail-a-phd/

• Richard Hamming, You and Your Research: http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html

How to Write Good Papers:

• "Write good papers" by Daniel Lamire, 2010: http://www.slideshare.net/lemire/write-good-papers

• Research skills in general: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/giving-a-talk.htm

• How to write a good abstract: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/essays/abstract.html

• Tasks of a Referee: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/teaching/spring2005/fft/reviewing.html

• How to write a technical paper: http://ecee.colorado.edu/~mcleod/teaching/ugol/references/howtowrite%20varsamopoulos.pdf

• How to write a great research paper: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/writing-a-paper-slides.pdf

• Seven habits of highly effective researchers: http://www.slideshare.net/zukun/7-habits-of-highly-effective-researchers