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Graduate Program

Advice on Graduate School

Terry Hayden has a small collection of papers which discuss things from writing papers to presenting a seminar to undertaking research. Some of these are available online. For those that are not, you can ask Terry for a hard copy version.

• How to be a Good Graduate Student
• Graduate School Survival Guide (Wanda Pratt)
• So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.! by Ronald Azuma
• A Short Guide to PhD Graduate Study
• Exit Laughing: The Philosophy of Graduate Education
• What's Wrong with those Talks?
• How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker's Guide for Students
• Advice on Research and Writing
• Advice to Beginning Physics Speakers
• The Science of Scientific Writing
• How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab
• You and your research
• The Grad Ed Option
• Resources on Research, Writing, and Careers in Computer Science

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