The Ins and outs of being a grad student

• The excellent How To Do Research at the MIT AI lab, which should be required reading for anyone entering graduate school.
• Networking on the Network by Phil Agre, a guide to "networking" using the Internet. A great resource, and a great read.
• Yet another great resource, How To Be A Good Graduate Student with all sorts of pointers on how you should be spending your time as a grad student. You can also download the dvi or postscript files. You also might find that the bibliography for this paper can be useful.
• You can't get through gradschool without writing a paper or two.
  • Here's info on How to Have Your Abstract Rejected
  • And here's Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts
  • For help in researching your paper, here's A Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
  • For some information about what your fellow students are working on (if you're the HCI sort), check out the The HCI TIP (Theses In Progress) List
  • Advice on Research and Writing provided by CMU. This includes pointers to some good advice on dealing with burnout.
• Another important piece of knowledge is how to give a good research talk (written by Simon L. Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury) from the University of Glasgow.