Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student

呵呵 可以打开链接 找个时间去看 觉得这一句很不错 When working on a PhD, you must focus on a topic so narrow that you can understand it completely. It will seem at first that you're working on the proverbial needle, a tiny fragment of the world, a minute crystal, beautiful but in the scheme of things, microscopic. Work with it. And the more you work with it, the more you penetrate it, the more you will come to see that your work, your subject, encompasses the world. In time, you will come to see the world in your grain of sand.

这一句也不错 When working on proving some statement S true, you should spend at least some time trying to prove it false. Even if it's true, trying to prove it false can give insight. And in any case, too often, our intuition is dead wrong. 感觉是小箴言似的

不错的分享~顺便再给个链接：Advice on Research and Writing http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/how-to.html CMU那边有很多这样的好文，有兴趣的可以多挖挖~ 【 在 zixu1986 (Euro) 的大作中提到: 】 : By Professor Manuel Blum @ CMU : http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/grad.html : Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student : ...................