Comments on: My Stanford Master’s Thesis http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/ Thoughts on web development, tech, and life. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joseph Smarr http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-51272 Joseph Smarr Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:22:35 +0000 http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/#comment-51272 Doing a PhD would take several more years. The reason I was able to complete a BS and MS in 5 years (and some manage to do it in 4) was that Stanford offers several "co-terminal masters degrees" where e.g. you can start taking masters-level CS classes while you're still an undergraduate, so you can overlap the requirements. But a PhD is a way bigger commitment, and you have to do a lot more original research than I had to do for my Masters Thesis, so there's no way I know of to "just sneak a PhD in while you're at it." :) Hope this helps, js Doing a PhD would take several more years. The reason I was able to complete a BS and MS in 5 years (and some manage to do it in 4) was that Stanford offers several “co-terminal masters degrees” where e.g. you can start taking masters-level CS classes while you're still an undergraduate, so you can overlap the requirements. But a PhD is a way bigger commitment, and you have to do a lot more original research than I had to do for my Masters Thesis, so there's no way I know of to “just sneak a PhD in while you're at it.” :) Hope this helps, js

]]> By: Steven http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-51271 Steven Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:23:55 +0000 http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/#comment-51271 I realize this post is a bit old but I was hoping to get an answer that is better suited towards those who have gone through the program as I'm not really getting a concise answer from the advisors.<br><br>You said you can actually do BS/MS in 4 years (I assume during the normal school year without summers). Would you happen to know what the fastest timeframe it is to be able to complete BS/MS/PhD (complete set)? Would it be 5 years? Thanks I realize this post is a bit old but I was hoping to get an answer that is better suited towards those who have gone through the program as I'm not really getting a concise answer from the advisors.

You said you can actually do BS/MS in 4 years (I assume during the normal school year without summers). Would you happen to know what the fastest timeframe it is to be able to complete BS/MS/PhD (complete set)? Would it be 5 years? Thanks

]]> By: eassywriting http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-51273 eassywriting Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:32:19 +0000 http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/#comment-51273 Nice information do more research Nice information do more research

]]> By: Joseph Smarr » Has it really been five years already?? http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Joseph Smarr » Has it really been five years already?? Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:50:05 +0000 http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/#comment-33 [...] I can’t believe it, but Stanford is already telling me to get ready for my five-year college reunion this fall. Five years–that’s as long as I was in college (including my Master’s degree) but this five years sure went by a lot faster than the previous five! Then again, I just passed my five-year anniversary at Plaxo (the math is a bit funny because I started working at Plaxo before I finished my MS, which btw is not advisable for one’s sanity). [...] [...] I can’t believe it, but Stanford is already telling me to get ready for my five-year college reunion this fall. Five years–that’s as long as I was in college (including my Master’s degree) but this five years sure went by a lot faster than the previous five! Then again, I just passed my five-year anniversary at Plaxo (the math is a bit funny because I started working at Plaxo before I finished my MS, which btw is not advisable for one’s sanity). [...]

]]> By: Joseph Smarr » The paper that would not die http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Joseph Smarr » The paper that would not die Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:34:26 +0000 http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/#comment-7 [...] I co-wrote this paper during the first summer I started doing NLP research, but it didn’t see the light of day until a year after I’d finished my Master’s degree. Yeesh! [...] [...] I co-wrote this paper during the first summer I started doing NLP research, but it didn’t see the light of day until a year after I’d finished my Master’s degree. Yeesh! [...]

]]> By: Joseph Smarr » My first NLP research paper http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Joseph Smarr » My first NLP research paper Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:10:39 +0000 http://josephsmarr.com/2007/01/27/my-stanford-masters-thesis/#comment-3 [...] As I describe in my post about my master’s thesis, I started doing research in Natural Language Processing after Chris Manning, the professor that taught my NLP class at Stanford, asked me to further develop the work I did for my class project. He helped me clean up my model, suggested some improvements, and taught me the official way to write and style a professional academic paper (I narrowly avoided having to write it in LaTeX!). I was proud of the final paper, but it wasn’t accepted (I believe we submitted it to EMNLP 02). [...] [...] As I describe in my post about my master’s thesis, I started doing research in Natural Language Processing after Chris Manning, the professor that taught my NLP class at Stanford, asked me to further develop the work I did for my class project. He helped me clean up my model, suggested some improvements, and taught me the official way to write and style a professional academic paper (I narrowly avoided having to write it in LaTeX!). I was proud of the final paper, but it wasn’t accepted (I believe we submitted it to EMNLP 02). [...]

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