Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)(cs.cmu.edu)
54 points by nicoraga | 20 comments
Manuel Blum's talk notes at CMU offering advice to beginning graduate students on reading, studying, research, and writing during a PhD.
#graduate-school on Hacker News
4 stories tagged graduate-school, newest first.
All it takes is for one to work out(alearningaday.blog)
744 points by herbertl | 360 comments
A blog post on the A Learning a Day blog reflecting on reapplying to graduate school after rejection and the idea that only one acceptance needs to work out.
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD(matt.might.net)
343 points by chii | 217 comments
Matt Might's illustrated essay explaining what a Ph.D. is using a series of circle diagrams representing the boundary of human knowledge.
PhD Simulator(research.wmz.ninja)
678 points by Smith42 | 230 comments
PhD Simulator is a retro-styled browser text game by Mianzhi Wang where the player navigates life as a new PhD student, managing hope, items, and status.