Last year, I published nine interviews with Internet friends about how an academically-minded, 22-year old college senior should work on a Ph.D. Many people have told me the interviews have been helpful for them or that they’ve emailed them to others.

I decided to make a dedicated website to host the interviews. You can find it at shouldigetaphd.com.

I hope this continues to be a valuable resource. I’d encourage you to share this with anyone you know who is thinking through this question.

I gave a talk at PyCarolinas 2012 about using Pickle and Redis to persist data with Python. It wasn’t recorded, but you can see the IPython notebook I presented from.