In the last week or so, I have through many orientation-oriented activities. A lot of them have been good (many quite excellent) — a definitely not a waste of time.

Yesterday, in the CS Graduate Student orientation, Prof. Carlis spoke on "How to Be a Graduate Student." He had a number of good points. Some of the things he said and promoted are questionable aims, but there were plenty of jewels in his talk to make it well worth the time.

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