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other texts
In the future there might be a better organizing principle to this page. For now, I'm labeling it as an obligatory misc page.
In this text I share advice about how to write an effective Statement of Purpose (SOP) for grad school applications in computer science. The notion of “effective” here doesn’t necessarily mean “gets you admitted to grad school”; I explain this in the text.
My goal in this text is to share some knowledge about the job search process, bits of advice that I received from others, and my personal experiences and hard-earned wisdom (read: my stupid mistakes). Hopefully, this can help candidates who (like me) go into the process knowing very little about it.