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[edit] PhD Student Advice Links

Les Gasser just sent me three excellent links that he thought everyone could benefit from.

The first link is a (huge!) collection of advice links on nearly any aspect of being a PhD student:

http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/xie/advice.htm

To get an idea of how comprehensive it is, here's its table of contents:

 Ph.D. dissertation/research advice
 Presentation advice
 Technical writing/research advice
 Technical reviewing/referee advice
 Advice for faculty
 Job hunting advice
 Misc. advice
 English learning advice

The second link is a webpage created by Phil Agre of UCLA:

Networking on the Network:
A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students
Phil Agre

http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/network.html

The third link is a talk given by Richard Hamming entitled "You and Your Research". From the introduction:

'This talk centered on Hamming's observations and research on the question ``Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run?

There are two links below, the first one is a better formatted version than the second (thought only slightly):

http://www.chris-lott.org/misc/kaiser.html

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

The final thing he sent me was a copy of an announcement for a talk that is being given in the CS Deptartment about "What you should know about academic careers" by AnHai Doan. While it is clearly geared for CS students, I thought that maybe we might want to get someone from GSLIS to do something similar for us, so I've included a copy of the announcement at the end of this email.

I haven't read all of these in depth, but I do think they're interesting, and plan on reading them more when I get a chance. I hope the rest of you find them useful as well.