Notes to a Future Grad Student
Reach out
If you're a prospective grad student, don't hesitate to reach out. I'm happy to help.
Seek support of real people
Grad school has its highs and lows-like anything you invest years of effort into. Recognizing both your struggles and successes is essential, and having someone to share the experience with-a friend, mentor, or community-can make all the difference.
Reading List
Here are some resources that have been invaluable throughout my PhD journey, alongside the support of my advisors, friends, and family:
- The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. / The Sphere of Knowledge
- More of Matt Might's articles
- So You're Starting a PhD? by Mike Rosulek at Oregon State University.
- You and Your Research by Richard Hamming.
- Margins of My Dissertation : Life Lessons that My PhD Taught Me by Chhavi Yadav at UC San Diego.
- De-Mystifying Good Research and Good Papers by Fei-Fei Li at Stanford.
- How to Referee a Paper by Alan Jay Smith at University of California, Berkeley.
- How to create a better research poster in less time
- A Survival Guide to a PhD by Andrej Karpathy.
- How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope
- Phd Comics
- How to Get New Ideas
- How to Do Great Work
- How to Ask Good Questions / Don't ask to ask, just ask / The XY Problem
- How to Not Get Stuck
- How to Write Good Technical Documentation
xkcd Types of Scientific Paper
