How to be a successful research assistant
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The document provides advice for how to be a successful research assistant. It outlines 10 pieces of advice: (1) manage your time effectively; (2) develop intellectual discipline through thinking, reading, and acting; (3) be proactive; (4) learn to communicate well; (5) develop an intellectual community; (6) network; (7) choose a good research problem; (8) understand faculty; (9) study successful people; and (10) maintain a work-life balance. It emphasizes choosing an appropriate research problem, communicating effectively, and networking within the research community. Additional resources on being a successful graduate student are provided.
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How to be a successful research assistant
- 1. How to be a successful research assistant? Xiao Qin Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering Auburn University http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~xqin [email_address] Some slides are adapted from notes by Dr. Matthew Turk
- 3. About me Ph.D.’04, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln 04-07, New Mexico Tech 07-now, Auburn University
- 5. My Research Group: 2010
- 6. My Research Group: 2011
- 13. Example 1 – Keep Track of Your Time
- 14. Example 2 – Keep Track of Your Time: a better approach
- 17. Example 4 – Keep a notebook
- 19. Example 5 – Discussion Minutes
- 20. Example 6 – Dropbox to share document
- 25. An Example Data Placement in Hadoop Clusters
- 27. Another Example – How to think I/O Performance Bottleneck Problems in Bioinformatics Applications
- 34. Download Slides at slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/xqin74
- 37. Questions
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- References: 1. How to Succeed in Graduate School? 2. How to be a good graduate student1? I:PapersTalksHow to Do Computer Systems ResearchReferences REU Program -> graduate school
- You’re not here to put in your 8 hours a day, or to get a 4.0 in your courses. In fact, probably no one will ever care what your GPA was in your REU program. (Not that courses are unimportant.) You will be known for the ideas and the body of work that you generated. This is different and special – it’s not just a job.
- Minsky story – “If you’re here in order to get a job, then you shouldn’t be here.”
- Be organized and systematic about setting and achieving goals.
- Be organized and systematic about setting and achieving goals.
- Be organized and systematic about setting and achieving goals.
- Research is basically idea generation (plus lots of sweat and tears)
- REU->graduate school YOU are in charge of your graduate education. It is primarily up to YOU to make it a great experience. Develop a “Can Do” attitude
- Especially for non-native English speakers, but also for everyone If you live and socialize with people who speak your (non-English) language, you will be at a disadvantage. Force yourself.
- Okay, be polite and appropriate, but don’t hesitate to ask questions, challenge a speaker, request clarification, etc. (Be nice but firm.) MIT and CMU cultures – confrontational, not polite (but let’s be constructive and purposeful about it) Again, it is up to YOU do make this happen.
- You’ll be working on this for a long time, and it will be difficult at times. You’d better like it, and truly be interested in it, passionate about it.
- Research is basically idea generation (plus lots of sweat and tears)
- Research is basically idea generation (plus lots of sweat and tears)
- Research is basically idea generation (plus lots of sweat and tears)
- In particular, your advisor
- This may seem to contradict everything else I’ve said, but…. This is not your whole life. Keep grad school in perspective: Passion and drive, but not obsession Remind yourself from time to time why you’re doing this. Also remind yourself from time to time what in life is important to you.