Although labeled as WiCS resources, the information below is relevant to most grads.
Please note, there's plenty of grad advice on the web. But if the internet
were to disappear tomorrow, this is the grad info we'd try to save.
Admission to grad school:
Getting In: An Applicant's Guide to Graduate School Admissions, by Dave Burrell. You'll notice some chunks of the book are not available online; but if you find it useful, the WiCS coordinator owns a hard-copy and she will gladly lend it to you. :-)
First years in grad school:
Marie desJardin's paper on why you shd go to grad school (or not) and what to expect.
David Chapman's famous paper on How to do research at the MIT AI lab, good reading for all first-year grads.
Industry or academia? Tamara Munzner's (UBC) view (academia wins) and Erik Meijer's (Microsoft) view (industry wins). [slides pending]
Academia
CRA's 2004 workshop on life as a research-university professor, including a talk on balancing career and family life (check out the workshop slides).
AIP's guide to Hunting for jobs at liberal arts colleges.
The term "liberal arts college" stands for any institution focusing primarily on undergraduate rather than
graduate education and research; this category also includes some smaller state universities as well as a
few colleges with small graduate programs.
Peter Feibelman's booklet tells how to choose a postdoc appointment: A PhD is not enough -- there's a copy in my office, if you're curious; it won't take you longer than half an hour.