PhD

The PhD experience

• Do You Need a Ph.D.?
• The Ph.D. Grind -- especially for PhD students and wannabes (the original link was taken down, but copies are available online)
• A Survival Guide to a PhD by Andrej Karpathy (~47k characters)
• Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide
• "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!" a.k.a. "Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn't learn until later."
• 10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D.
• Considering pursuing a Ph.D.? Watch this 12-minute video
• Advice for graduate students
• Mildly profane meta-advice for beginning PhD students
• What makes a good PhD supervisor? Top tips for managing the student-supervisor relationship.
• Cultivating the progress loop in your PhD
• The 9 most effective ways to achieve PhD success
• 39 PhD Mindfulness Exercises To De-Stress Your PhD
• Long list of books for researchers, recommended by the Thesis Whisperer
  • How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble: A Practical Guide
• CS PhD student in the Netherlands: to be or not to be?

Short Q&As

• Should PhD students worry about the citation counts of their published papers?
• What is a typical day of a PhD candidate in computer science like?