Awesome Research Readme

Content:

1. Grad Interviews
2. How to Apply
3. How To Do Research
4. How To Pick a Grad School
5. Reaching Out To Prospective Advisors
6. Things You Are Allowed To Do
7. Things You Should NOT Do
8. Understanding Grad Admission
9. Grad Interviews
10. Awesome Research Queue

ATTENTION

If you don’t see the phrase “my take”, it has been borrowed from the author, mentioned on top of each page (literally first line). Please see the first item in FAQs. To even further assure I am not “stealing” anyone’s work, I have prevented this entire section from being indexed by Google.

so the only way you are here because you directly came here and have read this piece of warning

FAQs

why are you copy pasting the materials

Answer

I did this considering the following reasons:

1. materials being removed/unorganized from the web
2. I couldn’t integrate my notes easily and update them in an iterative manner
3. I think my situation is unique and needs fine tuning of best advices

To further elaborate each point:

1. Some of the materials were just blogs and easy to copy, about 1/10 resources were removed the web and I retrieved them via web archive (some lost forever). On a separate note, some materials were only available as a video, X, comment in a forum, etc. I have integrated these stuff into the corresponding blogs or topics. So, you might find a page that there is no take from me, but might half the content have been gathered from different sources rather than just the blog. I believe this integration is worth rewriting.
2. So, I have the issue of going deep in the rabbit hole in writing, i.e., spending half an hour just thinking of the header name. To fix this, I adopted Swiss Cheese style writing. But, for taking advices, this method means that you take the advice with barely adding anything to it, then you add gradually until someday most of the material is produced by me rather than the original author. Already, you can find some pages that almost all the parts are from the original author, yet find pages that a week ago (at the time of writing) were 100% from original author but now 90% is by me.
3. I think my situation (things I have and things I want) is unique and wanted to create a self-help booklet, inspired by greatest minds, fine tuned with my experience, and hopefully a guideline for those who find themselves in my path