Survival Guide

Graduate student survival guide documenting the hidden curriculum and tips
to help you succeed in graduate school and beyond.

Inspired by https://github.com/vandybgsa/handbook.

Contents

• Overview
• Contents
• Prerequisites to Compile
• Compile Book

Overview

This is meant to serve as a bit of a guide or collection of tips for incoming
students to help you transition smoother. These tips are collected from the
experiences of students.

This guide is compiled using bookdown, an R package for authoring books and
technical documents. The underlying files are RMarkdown files. More on
how to use bookdown can be found here.

Contents

• Chapter 1 Computing Tips
• Chapter 2 Community
• Chapter 3 Personal Branding
• Chapter 4 Courses
• Chapter 5 Research
• Chapter 6 OHSU Campus

Prerequisites to Compile

Computer software needed:

• R
• RStudio (Recommended)

R packages to install:

install.packages("bookdown")

Compile Book

Open the handbook.Rproj file in RStudio and run the command

bookdown::render_book("index.Rmd", "bookdown::gitbook")

This will render the files into the docs/ directory. You'll need to commit
any changes in this directory to see changes on the website.

You can also open the compile_book.R script and run that.

Using Make, you can also just run the following if you have R setup correctly
on the command line.

make