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JupiterMoon on Feb 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What My PhD Was Like

The view from Europe is that since students in US PhD programs spend their first two years doing courses they come out with similar actual research experience.

emeryberger on Feb 28, 2016 [–]

The view is wrong. In computer science -- at least at top programs -- students begin research immediately.

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