What should incoming graduate students do?
• Meet Joyce Poon, our graduate secretary. Joyce is an invaluable source of information and help. She can also point you to the appropriate tech-staff person to get your system account (ensure you are put on the requisite mailing lists; see below for details), and how to get your department copier account (billed to your advisor/supervisor). • Read your CS grad handbook. You should have received one with your acceptance package; you can also get one from Joyce (see the previous bullet). • Read the stuff on the Grad Affairs page. It has a lot of information. • Register for your courses. The available courses list is available Grad Affairs page. You register with the on-line Student Service Centre). Be sure to ask some of the `senior’ graduate students for recommendations (or disrecommendations) on courses. In fact you should ask senior grads about everything: they are usually more candid than even this unofficial FAQ can be, and are chock-full of interesting knowledge on the department.
• Read your CS grad handbook: PDF (1.9MB). • Meet Joyce Poon, our Graduate Program Administrator (604.822.2500/poon@cs.ubc.ca) -an invaluable source of information and help. She can also point you to the appropriate tech-staff person to get your system account (ensure you are put on the requisite mailing lists; see below for details), and how to get your department copier account (billed to your advisor/supervisor). • Read the stuff on Grad Affairs page. It has a lot of information. • Register for your courses. The available courses list is available on the following Grad Affairs page. You register with the on-line Student Service Centre (Java applet); I prefer the the purely HTML version. You should ask some of the `senior’ graduate students for recommendations (or disrecommendations) on courses. They are chock-full of interesting knowledge on the department: use them. • You’ll need to get your keys. Joyce should be able to tell you your office assignment, and get you the requiste key
