Updates after the first two years of grad school incoming 💖

I wrote this story around April 2021 for my parents while trying to communicate my PhD struggles. It’s heavily simplified with a naive worldview* and was mostly meant to illustrate how drawing a connection can be a hard thing in and of itself + elicit discussion on why one would want to go to the effort to draw such a connection ➝

Many people have already written sage advice for applying to graduate school. If you’re looking for some pointers, here’s a good place to start: Grad School Resources by Kalpesh Krishna (linked to from Nelson Liu’s Student Perspectives on Applying to NLP PhD Programs). There’s also a scrappy list of related links here from my “Resources” page. ➝