Confessions of a researchaholic

December 9, 2015

The PhD grind

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 6:10 pm
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I bumped into this PhD student memoir by Philip Guo, and liked it so much that I read the entire book within a few hours.

I highly recommend it to anyone doing research, especially junior PhD students.

There are many advices out there about research and PhD, but this memoir format provides concrete events that are easier to relate on a personal level.
It also helped that the fields covered are HCI and software engineering, which every CS major can understand to some degree.

In retrospect, I hope to have written something similar around the time of my PhD study. Back then I simply had too much fun for this, and I probably have too much selective bias now to write a genuine one.
But if you can write one, I would love to read.

1 Comment »

  1. indeed a PhD-must-read 🙂

    Comment by Yanlin Wang — December 9, 2015 @ 7:56 pm | Reply


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