Collections

These are my collected blogs from various sources on many aspects of being in academia and beyond.

PhD's life

Randy Pausch, "The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams."

Ronald T. Azuma, "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!"

David Kotz, "You too can write a bad MobiSys paper, a tongue-in-cheek set of tips for writing a good systems paper."

Roy Levin, David Redell, "An evaluation of the ninth SOSP submissions or how (and how not) to write a good systems paper."

Beyond the PhD time

David Evans, "How to Live in Paradise."

Karen Kelsky, "Academia as Identity – a UK/US Comparison."

Favourites (outside of academia)

I enjoy movies, animations, novels and am a big fan of StarWars, Westworld, The Chronicles of Narnia, Ratatouille, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Harrison Ford, and many more.

"An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music.", Dr. Ford (Westworld).

"I've always loved a good story. I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth.", Dr. Ford (Westworld).

"Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere." Anton Ego (Ratatouille).

"The bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so." Anton Ego (Ratatouille).