Grad school

The essential PhD Comic.

Marie desJardins has advice on grad school and also career advice

Ken Shan's old page has lots of links

advice from PLoS Comp Biol on research, writing, grants, reviewing, postdocs, collaborating, speaking, posters, and being a student

Randy Pausch's old page has a nice talk on time management, in addition to his famous `Last Lecture' on how to live your life.

A hazard of CS to take very seriously: RSI.

Some things not to be taken seriously: JMLG, AIR.  Some humor for professors.

I recommend learning LaTeX and buying a manual for your editor (eg, emacs or vi).

Doing research

Dick Hamming's advice probably applies to how to live your life, too.

HT Kung has some good advice.

Writing

How to get a paper accepted at OOPSLA

How To Get Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected

Some pet peeves of Margo Seltzer.

Boi Faltings on how to review: every paper needs: problem statement, your solution or insight, example that shows how it works, evaluation against existing techniques.  Also: must be correct, must leave reader having learned something new.  Helps if novel, important/significant, difficult to have obtained.

Giving talks

In my view, the number one things is to know that about 95% of speakers get nervous, even very experienced professors who you would never imagine getting nervous. (I know since I always sit in the front row.) The key is to channel your nervousness into useful energy/excitement for the topic. Focus outwards, on helping your audience understand what you're explaining.

Norman Ramsey's advice

Pat Winston's lecturing heuristics