Dianne P. O'Leary

oleary@cs.umd.edu

• 1 Introduction
• Contents
• 2 Graduate School in Your Future?
• 3 Applying to Graduate School
• 4 The Life of a Graduate Student
• 5 Surviving Written Exams
• 6 Surviving Oral Exams
• 7 Finding and Dealing with an Advisor
• 8 Finding a Topic and Beginning Research
• 9 The Thesis Writing Process
• 10 A Professorship in Your Future?
• 11 Careers in Government and Industry
• 12 Professional Ethics
• 13 Resources
• About this document ...