Grad School Musings

This page is a collection of thoughts (mostly humorous) on life as a graduate student. However, under interrogation I will likely deny any incriminating content (read: evidence of procrastination) found herein.

My PhD Genealogy

My Erdos number is 4 via David L. Roberts -> Fred S. Roberts -> Frank Harary -> Paul Erdös or alternatively via Merrick Furst -> Larry J. Stockmeyer -> Miklós Ajtai -> Paul Erdös

A decision chart for PhD students. Created by Sarita Yardi.

(As described in Graduate School(tm): The Game) There are no winners in grad school, only survivors and failures. Your goal is to be a survivor, that means different things to different people. There are a wide range of ways to survive:

Go to law school: Successfully escape
Marry rich: Don't worry anymore
Find God: Science is for fools
Family: Change your priorities
Capitalize on one of your ideas and make millions: Ah, engineering...
Graduate: ???

Graduate students are like sprinters: Short, feverishly productive periods of work punctuate long periods of rest during which the student is "recuperating" mentally. For example, just look at the activity in a lab the week following a conference paper deadline.

On dissertations and dissertation research: The goal is to be finished, not famous. (The wise words of my former labmate Curt Clifton.)

Nerdiness of CS Grad Students

My Travels

Breweries

Last modified 25 September 2009 at 2:30 pm by dorn