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===== About the Graduate Experience ===== ===== About the Graduate Experience =====
  * I have started to compile some (unsanctioned) [[ms_advice_column |recommendations for ECE MS students]].   * I have started to compile some (unsanctioned) [[ms_advice_column |recommendations for ECE MS students]].
-  * I do not have any specific recommendations to offer to PhD students because (1) if they are not my students, my recommendations have no bearing on what they should do; and (2) if they are my [[students |students]], they shouldn't be browsing the web.+  * I do not have any specific recommendations to offer to PhD students because (1) if they are not my students, my recommendations have no bearing on what they should do; and (2) if they are my [[students |students]], they should should come talk to me in person.
  * An unsanctioned [[http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~jhoe/distribution/general/gradschool.pdf |talk about graduate schools]] I used gave to ECE undergrads annually (hosted by the CMU IEEE student chapter).  Since 2010, it has been integrated into an [[http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~jhoe/distribution/general/uro.pdf |18-200 lecture]].   * An unsanctioned [[http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~jhoe/distribution/general/gradschool.pdf |talk about graduate schools]] I used gave to ECE undergrads annually (hosted by the CMU IEEE student chapter).  Since 2010, it has been integrated into an [[http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~jhoe/distribution/general/uro.pdf |18-200 lecture]].
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  * [[http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1 |This]] is an unexpected good source of information about life as a PhD student.   * [[http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1 |This]] is an unexpected good source of information about life as a PhD student.
-  * [[http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ |The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.]]+  * [[http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ |The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.]] (The [[http://matt.might.net/articles/ |same site]] offers several other insightful guides to the PhD process.)
  * Don't let these change your mind   * Don't let these change your mind