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Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student or What is Research? or The 4 R's of Graduate School: Reading, Rithmetic, Research, and Writing 29-AUG-01. Updated 28-AUG-02. Manuel Blum Outline of the talk: READING, STUDYING, THINKING, STARTING OFF on the PhD, DEEP in the MIDDLE of the PhD, WRITING it all up. YOU READING: Books are not scrolls. Scrolls must be read like the Torah from one end to the other. Books are random access -- a great innovation over scrolls. Make use of this innovation! Do NOT feel obliged to read a book from beginning to end. Permit yourself to open a book and start reading from anywhere. In the case of mathematics or physics or anything especially hard, try to find something anything that you can understand. Read what you can. Write in the margins. (You know how useful that can be.) Next time you come back to that book, you'll be able to read more. You can gradually learn extraordinarily hard things this way. Consider writing what you read as you read it. This is esp

manuelb1 Carnegie Mellon | School of Computer Science Home Search Research Undergraduate Research Teaching News Students Poetry Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student or What is Research? or The 4 R's of Graduate School: Reading, Rithmetic, Research, and Writing 29-AUG-01. Updated 28-AUG-02. Manuel Blum Outline of the talk: READING , STUDYING , THINKING , STARTING OFF on the PhD , DEEP in the MIDDLE of the PhD , WRITING it all up . YOU READING: Books are not scrolls. Scrolls must be read like the Torah from one end to the other. Books are random access -- a great innovation over scrolls. Make

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