Graduate Student Life

The CACS strives to provide students not only with a world class education but also with the unique experience that comes from living in the Lafayette Area.

In this section you will find links to campus, area and departmental resources and other information that will be helpful as you begin your life as a graduate student here at CACS.

CACS Excellence

• UL Lafayette makes The Best 357 Colleges guide
• GRE Guide ranked us as 70th best

Student Resource:

• Career Services
• OIA
• Health Services
• GSO
• Microsoft Developer's Network (MSDNAA)

Academic Advice

• Advice on research and writing (CMU)
• You and your research, by Richard Hamming
• How to do research?
• How to be a good graduate student?
• How to present a paper in theoretical computer science? by Ian Parberry
• How to give a good talk? by Scott Drysdale

Career Development

• Sample vitas for graduating Ph.D.
• Networking on the network by Phil Agre
• Computer science faculty and research positions
• Landing an academic job - The Process and Pitfalls, by J. A. Dantzig

Paper Resource

• (ACM Digital Library)
• (IEEE Xplore)
• (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library)
• (Springer Link)
• UL Library