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Throughout my twenty-ish years in academics (as an undergraduate and master's student at UVa; as staff at Caltech; and as a Ph.D. student at Claremont Graduate University), I've learned much about choosing topics of study through talking with researchers, observing the choices graduate students have made and the outcomes that resulted, and through reading books like The Craft of Research [1]. Now that I'm facing having to write papers and a dissertation of my own, I wanted to distill what I've learned into guidelines and write them down as reminders so that I don't lead myself astray over the coming years. [ Read More ... ]