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Academic Guides

• Notes on getting through grad school
• Notes on the Ph.D. Degree - Purdue
• "A few essays about Computer Science" on Douglas E. Comer's page
• Ron Azuma's Guides to surviving Computer Science graduate school
• Sample Dissertation Proposals collected by Greg Turk
• UNC-CH CS Dissertations and Abstracts since 1969
• A student's retrospective

(Some links from the DIRT FAQ page)

Research Guides

• How to write a dissertation or Bedtime reading for people who do not have time to sleep
• A Referee's Plea by Mark Allman - hints for writing conference papers
• Ron Azuma's Guide to Literature Searching
• The CS Department Public Resource Guide
• How to Be a Good Graduate Student
• Advice on Research and Writing Research Methods in Computer Science

Introduction to research

• Hints on Finding and Reading Academic Papers
• Types of Academic Papers
• How do I get a copy of a particular paper?
• Which Papers to Read, and How to Read Them
• Hints for maintaining references to papers
• Experimental Research Hints
• Essential Tools
• Archival Data Storage is Plentiful
• Recommending Reading
• Hints for using the CVS software version control
• Why use CVS?
• Some basic commands
• Useful CVS Links

These are the different exams that need to be passed to get a MS and PhD degree. Please contribute your suggestions that help students better prepare for the exam.

• Integrative paper (IP) writing requirement for MS and PhD
• Official description
• It would be nice to have a student's or faculty's perspective. Any volunteers?
• M.S. Oral Comprehensive Exam
• Official description
• It would be nice to have a student's or faculty's perspective. Any volunteers?
• QUAL, PhD qualification exam
• Official description
• QUAL practice session.
• Doctoral Oral Examination
• Official description
• Ron Azuma's Guide to the orals
• Out-dated exams
• DWE -- Doctoral written examination. Ron Azuma's DWE Guide
• CCE -- Core Comprehensive Examination
• Ron Azuma's "Hitchhiker's Guide" Trilogy and exam humor:
• The Night Before DWEs
• DWE Etiquette
• DWE Rules
• So Long and Thanks for the PhD!!

New students -- Guide of Chapel Hill and UNC services. Internal access to list of new students

CSSA apartment guide compiled by Aditi Majumder

CSSA Restaurant Guide compiled by John Keyser

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