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<!-- created by Micheal Hewett (hewett@cs.utexas.edu) 14 Feb 1996 --><html><base target="_top"><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><head><title>Advice for Graduate Students</title><!-- Changed by: Emery Berger, 16-May-1996 --></head><a name="top"><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/gracs">Back to the GRACS Home Page</A><br><!WA0><!WA0><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu">Back to the CS Department Home Page</A><p><center><hr noshade width=80%>Advice and guidance to assist you in your quest for a Masters or PhD degree<br>in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas </center><hr noshade width=80%><p><p><H2>Starting out</H2>If you are considering attending graduate school, <!WA1><!WA1><A HREF="http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/grad-school.html">Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School</A> contains some good advice.A <!WA2><!WA2><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/advice-undergrad.html">local copy</a> (potentially out of date) is available in case that linkis not active.<p>In 1993, the <!WA3><!WA3><A HREF="http://www.nas.edu">National Academy of Sciences</A> published a report on the current state and future direction of<!WA4><!WA4><A HREF="http://www.nap.edu/nap/online/grad/">graduate education in the U.S</A>.<p>The UT Computer Science graduate school ranked seventh nationally inthe <!WA5><!WA5><A HREF="http://cra.org/cgi-bin/RankCS">latest NAS rankings</A>.<p><p><H2>Frequently Asked Questions</H2>The Graduate Advisor (currently <!WA6><!WA6><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/porter">Bruce Porter</A>), email <!WA7><!WA7><A HREF="mailto:porter@cs.utexas.edu">porter@cs.utexas.edu</A>,has prepared a list of Frequently Asked Questions.<p><UL><LI><em>These are not yet available.</em></LI><LI><!WA8><!WA8><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/faq-new-student.html">New Student FAQ</A></LI><LI><!WA9><!WA9><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/faq-masters.html">Masters Student FAQ</A></LI><LI><!WA10><!WA10><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/faq-phd.html">Doctoral Student FAQ</A></LI><LI><!WA11><!WA11><A HREF="mailto:porter@cs.utexas.edu,gracs@cs.utexas.edu">Ask a question</A></LI></UL><H2>Course work</H2>The<!WA12><!WA12><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/UTCS/academic-info/grad.bulletin.ASCII">graduate bulletin</A> contains all of the information about course requirements. Other <!WA13><!WA13><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/docs/academics.html"> related administrativeinformation</A> is available too.<UL><LI><!WA14><!WA14><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/gracs/advice/courses-breadth.html">Breadth courses and Depth courses</A></LI><LI><!WA15><!WA15><A HREF="mailto:gracs@cs.utexas.edu">Send us your course comments or questions!</A></LI></UL><P><H2>Masters Students: Thesis Option or Not?</H2>Masters students have the option of taking fewer courses and doing athesis, or of taking more courses and not doing a thesis.The non-thesis option is usually faster. You can do a Mastersdegree in 18 months under this option.The thesis option usually takes 2-3 years. <p>Students who like research, are thinking of doing a PhD, or who justwant to stay in school a little longer should consider the thesis option.If you just want to get a degree and get a job, you probably want thenon-thesis option.<p><!WA16><!WA16><A HREF="mailto:gracs@cs.utexas.edu">Send us your comments or questions!</A><p><H2>Approaching the PhD</H2>The decision to do a PhD is a major decision. It will have a substantial affect on your life and career. As you start the PhD,take advantage of the hindsight provided by other graduate students.The collected wisdom of generations of grad students and advisorscan be found below:<p><UL><LI>The famous <!WA17><!WA17><A HREF="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/mit.research.how.to.html">"How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab"</A> document is a good place to start.</LI><LI>And the legendary <!WA18><!WA18><A HREF="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.html">How to be a good Grad Student/Advisor</A> is always useful.</LI><LI>A huge collection of<!WA19><!WA19><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/how-to.html">advice for graduate students in CS</A> is available at<!WA20><!WA20><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu">CMU</A>.</LI><LI>Here is a Postscript version of the<!WA21><!WA21><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/advice-rutgers.ps">adviceguide</A> from <!WA22><!WA22><A HREF="http://paul.rutgers.edu/~csgss">RutgersUniversity</A>.</LI></UL><H3>General advice</H3><UL><LI>Get started on research early. Talk to several professorsduring your first semester. Don't "wait until I get settled in".</LI><P><LI>The social relationship with your advisor is crucial. If youdon't feel that your advisor is somewhat of a friend or supporter,then the path to a PhD will be rough.</LI><P><LI>Push yourself. Your advisor has no need to push you out.You are doing valuable research for her/him. If <b>you</b> wantto graduate, <b>you</b> will need to put yourself in position to do so.</LI></UL><H3>Advice specific to our department</H3><ul><LI><!WA23><!WA23><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/comment-hewett.html">Comment from Micheal Hewett (1996)</a></LI></ul><!WA24><!WA24><A HREF="mailto:gracs@cs.utexas.edu">Send us your comments or questions!</A><P><H3>Advice for women</H3>Women feeling overwhelmed by the male-dominated sciences may be interestedin a group called Women in Computer Science.<!WA25><!WA25><A HREF="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens">Ellen Spertus</A> at MIThas collected a lot of information on <!WA26><!WA26><A HREF="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/gender.html">gender-relatedissues in CS</A>.<!WA27><!WA27><A HREF="http://www.systers.org">Systers</A> is another national organization catering to women in Computer Science.There are also local chapters of systers. Send mail to<!WA28><!WA28><A HREF="mailto:utcs-systers-request@cs.utexas.edu">utcs-systers-request</A>and<!WA29><!WA29><A HREF="mailto:austin-systers-request@cs.utexas.edu">austin-systers-request</A>to get on the local mailing lists.<p><br><p><H2>$$$$$ Funding $$$$$</H2>Most PhD students in the department will be a TA for at least one ortwo semesters during their graduate career. TA positions are usuallyavailable to any PhD student. If there is a particular class you would like to be a TA for, go talkto the professor who teaches that class. If the professor requestsyou for a particular class, you are likely to get that class.<p>TA duties can range from simply grading homework (e.g. most graduatebreadth courses) to teaching two classes (e.g. CS304p). This reporter found that teaching two CS304P courses required lesstime than grading a graduate-level course, but your experience may vary.<p>The hope, of course, is that your advisor will get a big research grantthat will support you as an RA for your graduate career. This happensmost, but not all, the time. You can help yourself by investigatingresearch funding opportunities and learning how to write grant proposals.Also, apply for fellowships since they pay tuition while <em>TA and RApositions do not include tuition waivers!</em><p><UL><LI><!WA30><!WA30><A HREF="http://graddiv.ucsb.edu/financial/Source.html">UCSB Funding Sources</A></Li></UL><!WA31><!WA31><A HREF="mailto:gracs@cs.utexas.edu">Send us your comments on funding!</A><P><p> <H2>The Thesis Proposal</H2><UL><LI><!WA32><!WA32><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/steps-proposal.html">Administrative requirements</A></LI><p><LI><b>Format</b><br><br>Most people produce a 20-40 page document formatted like a technical report.This means line spacing is 1.5-2, margins are average to wide, single-column, etc.Remember that a bunch of older people with bad eyes will be reading thereport, so take pity on them and use a 12-point font.<p>If you want to save time formatting your thesis, use the thesis format, butbe aware that double-spacing and wide margins will turn your document intoa 40-60 page paper.</LI><p><LI><b>What if I don't pass?</b><br><br>In order to pass the thesis proposal, your work must satisfytwo qualifications:<ol><li>The proposed work, when completed, will constitute an acceptablethesis from this institution; and</li><li>The student is capable of doing the proposed work.</LI></ol>In the first place, if you don't pass your thesis proposal it reflectsworse on your advisor than it does on you, because it means that he/shesent you in unprepared. Probably the only way not to pass is if youget nervous and can't answer questions from the audience. This is notlikely to happen, especially if you practice your talk a lot.</LI><p><LI>Student comments on the proposal process:</LI><ul><li>Still waiting for comments...<!WA33><!WA33><A HREF="mailto:gracs@cs.utexas.edu">Send us your comments on the proposal!</A></ul></UL><p><H2>The Dissertation</H2><UL><LI>Administrative Requirements (to come)</LI><p><LI><b>Format</b><ul><li>The Computation Center has<!WA34><!WA34><a HREF="http://www.utexas.edu/cc/docs/cca15/misc-thesis.html">LaTeX and Word templates</a> available.</li><li>Here are working <!WA35><!WA35><A HREF="ftp://www.cs.utexas.edu/latex/latex2e/thesis-latex2e.tar.Z">LaTeX2e templates</A>from Dinesh Dao (1995).The tar file includes <tt>utthesis.doc</tt>and <tt>utthesis.sty</tt> files.</li></ul></LI><p><LI>Student comments on the dissertation process:</LI><ul><li><!WA36><!WA36><A HREF="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/phd-comment-baffes.html">Paul Baffes (1995)</a></li><li><!WA37><!WA37><A HREF="mailto:gracs@cs.utexas.edu">Send us more great stories like that!</A></LI></ul></UL><p><H2>Getting a job</H2>Being an advisee of someone who is an expert in their field will be a bighelp when looking for a job. This may affect your choice of a thesisadvisor. So the first step is to ask your advisor whether she/heknows of any job openings. This works better for academic jobs.The main source of academic job listings is the December issue of CACM.<p>For industry jobs, try to meet people at conferences, or contact people who have written good papers in your area. It doesn't hurtto start making these contacts 2-3 years before graduation. Thehighest concentration of computer jobs is in Silicon Valley (San Jose - San Francisco), Boston, Austin, and theResearch Triangle area of North Carolina. Other minor hotspots includeSeattle, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Houston, Portland, and Detroit.<p>CRA runs a mailing list for job announcements. Here are the instructions,taken from their home page (<!WA38><!WA38><a href="http://www.cra.org"><tt>http://www.cra.org</tt></a>):<pre>*************************************************************Anyone may subscribe to the Computing Research Association's jobs@cra.org list.There is a cost associated with posting jobs announcements.To Subscribe: Send the following mail message to listproc@cra.org: subscribe jobs firstname lastnameUnsubscribe: Send the following mail message to listproc@cra.org: unsubscribe jobsTo Post: Send announcement to jobs@cra.org.Help: Send the following mail message to listproc@cra.org: help*************************************************************</pre>There are also many online job listings now. Check various newsgroupssuch as ba.jobs.offered, etc. See also:<UL><LI><!WA39><!WA39><A HREF="http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/CSGSA/GeneralInfo/index.html">Job Listings</A> (offered by Rice University)</LI></UL></Body></html>⌨️ 快捷键说明
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