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How to be a graduate student

``` Date: Fri, 08 Apr 94 15:45:18 -0700 From: marie@erg.sri.com Subject: How to be a graduate student

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Greetings!

Back in the mists of time, I circulated a request for inputs and suggestions on a paper I was writing that was intended as a "handbook" of sorts for graduate students and advisors. I've finally finished a complete draft, and am making it publicly available for anyone who's interested. At some point I will submit it for publication in a journal (maybe CACM or Science if they're interested), but right now I'm just interested in distributing it as widely as possible to anybody who might find it useful, and getting comments and feedback on the paper.

The paper is available by ftp at ftp.erg.sri.com. There is a latex file (advice.tex), with two additional input files (advice.bbl, the BibTeX bibliography, and named.sty, a bibliography style file), and a postscript version (advice.ps). To get the paper: ftp to ftp.erg.sri.com, login as anonymous, and give your e-mail address as the password 'cd pub/advice' use the 'get' command to take whichever files you want. To generate the latex output, copy the first three files, run 'latex advice,' then 'bibtex advice,' then latex twice more to incorporate all of the references.

Some of the references are incomplete (or possibly incorrect). If anyone has more complete bibligraphic information for any of the references, I'd appreciate it if you would send it to me. Comments and feedback on the paper are also very welcome.

I'm about to start maternity leave (today is my last day at work), so I may be slow to respond to e-mail, but I will be logging on periodically, and I promise I will get back to you eventually!

Marie desJardins marie@erg.sri.com ```

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