GoKawiilManuel Blum's 2001 essay 'Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student' resurfaces online
Computer scientist Manuel Blum's essay outlines strategies for succeeding in graduate school, covering reading, studying, research and writing. He compares finite automata to Turing machines to illustrate how tools like paper and pencil can dramatically expand problem-solving power, and encourages students to read non-linearly and annotate texts as they learn difficult material.