Graduate Studies
Bits of advice about graduate (doctoral) studies
- Die Doktorarbeit: Vom Start zum Ziel from Springer (RWTH only)
- THESIS Interdisziplinäres Netzwerk für Promovierende und Promovierte e.V.
- A pictorial explanation of what a doctorate is
- Good Practices in Graduate Education from Rice University
- Advice to Current and Incoming Graduate Students (PDF) by Matteo Pasquali
- Getting The Most Out Of Graduate School (PDF) by Raj Rajagopalan
- You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
- Seven Steps to Success in Graduate School adapted from Naomi Halas
- Research Resources collected by Rich Baraniuk
- Graduate Study in CS and Math by Dianne O'Leary at the University of Maryland
- Education articles and links from Moshe Vardi at Rice University
- Public speaking advice (PDF) from Physics Today via RWTH Geophysics
- Ph.D. Comics
- Be wary of pseudo-conferences and journals
- Making the Right Moves after the graduate school
- Inbox Zero mailbox philosophy
Many of the links originated from a May 2001 mailing from Matteo Pasquali to Rice University Chemical Engineering graduate students.




