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==MSA at Georgia Tech== | ==MSA at Georgia Tech== | ||
<b>Back in the game!</b> I | <b>Back in the game!</b> I started up an MS in Analytics Fall 2019, hoping to recharge my calculus capacitors. | ||
===Spring 2020=== | |||
* ISyE 6644 Simulation | |||
* CSE 6242 Data and Visualization Analytics | |||
* ISyE 6402 Time Series Analysis | |||
===Fall 2019=== | |||
* ISyE 6501 Introduction to Analytics Modeling | |||
* CSE 6040 Computing for Data Analytics | |||
==PhD-CS at the Georgia Institute of Technology== | ==PhD-CS at the Georgia Institute of Technology== | ||
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* I somehow missed it, but there's a nice [[:File:Grad-orientation-2008.pdf|guide to the CoC]] from 2008 Grad Orientation | * I somehow missed it, but there's a nice [[:File:Grad-orientation-2008.pdf|guide to the CoC]] from 2008 Grad Orientation | ||
==Teaching Philosophy== | ==Teaching Philosophy== | ||
"If you ladies leave my Institute, if you survive training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of solutions praying for difficult problems. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized | "If you ladies leave my Institute, if you survive training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of solutions praying for difficult problems. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit. Because I am hard, you will not like me, but the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard, but I am fair: here you are all equally worthless, and my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve my beloved Science!" - Adapted from <i>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/ Full Metal Jacket]</i> | ||
==General notes/advice== | ==General notes/advice== | ||
* Amin Vahdat's "[http://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/why-go-to-graduate-school-and-how-to-get-into-the-program-of-your-dreams/ How to Get Into the Program of Your Dreams]" | * Amin Vahdat's "[http://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/why-go-to-graduate-school-and-how-to-get-into-the-program-of-your-dreams/ How to Get Into the Program of Your Dreams]" | ||
* Dianne O'Leary's "[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~oleary/gradstudy Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual]" is pretty outstanding (aside from the God stuff, which you can take or leave). It's full of pithy gems like this (quoted from the 2009-08-21 version):<blockquote>It is possible to spend almost all of your time in literature review and seminars. It is easy to convince yourself that by doing this you are working hard and accomplishing something. The truth of the matter is that nothing will come of it unless your are an active reader and listener and unless you assign yourself time to develop your own ideas, too. It is impossible to "finish a literature review and then start research". New literature is always appearing, and as your depth and breadth increases, you will continually see new connections and related areas that must be studied.</blockquote>and:<blockquote>If you have a full or part-time job outside the university, you may feel that you are between two worlds, without belonging to either one. Neither the university nor the workplace is well adapted to dealing with the other, and each may place demands that are incompatible with those of the other. Your biggest problems may be the double commute, scheduling difficulties, and isolation.</blockquote>I can certainly vouch for this last. | * Dianne O'Leary's "[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~oleary/gradstudy Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual]" is pretty outstanding (aside from the God stuff, which you can take or leave). It's full of pithy gems like this (quoted from the 2009-08-21 version):<blockquote>It is possible to spend almost all of your time in literature review and seminars. It is easy to convince yourself that by doing this you are working hard and accomplishing something. The truth of the matter is that nothing will come of it unless your are an active reader and listener and unless you assign yourself time to develop your own ideas, too. It is impossible to "finish a literature review and then start research". New literature is always appearing, and as your depth and breadth increases, you will continually see new connections and related areas that must be studied.</blockquote>and:<blockquote>If you have a full or part-time job outside the university, you may feel that you are between two worlds, without belonging to either one. Neither the university nor the workplace is well adapted to dealing with the other, and each may place demands that are incompatible with those of the other. Your biggest problems may be the double commute, scheduling difficulties, and isolation.</blockquote>I can certainly vouch for this last. | ||