[转贴]How to Be a Successful PhD Student

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How to Be a Successful PhD Student (in Computer Science (in NLP/ML))

Mark Dredze (Johns Hopkins University)

Hanna M. Wallach (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Version 1.0, March 20, 2012

Being a graduate student can be extremely rewarding and a lot of fun, but it’s also hard work. Like anything in life, there are ways to succeed and ways to fail. Hopefully, you will find a good support network that can help you learn what it takes to be a good graduate student. However, not everyone is able to find such a network, and it’s important tolearn these lessons early.

This guide was written based on ourexperiences as graduate students and our experiences advising graduatestudents, specifically, PhD students in NLP and machine learning; however, we hope many of the points are applicable to a wider audience. Where possible, we have indicated when advice is field-specific. Beyond that, the advice is listed in no particular order.

No doubt there will be points with which you disagree. That’s totally fine -- there are certainly points about which even we had differing views; however, before you decide to ignore these points, it’s well worth taking the time to understand why we included them.

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How to Be a Successful PhD Student (in Computer Science (in NLP/ML))