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A PhD at a good institution is also a great way to open doors which would otherwise remain closed. I found that opening emails with "I'm a DPhil student at the

A PhD at a good institution is also a great way to open doors which would otherwise remain closed. I found that opening emails with "I'm a DPhil student at the Oxford University Computing Lab and" resulted in a dramatic increase in how helpful people would be.

igravious 10y ago
That's probably the Oxford part doing the trick, not the DPhil part ;-) I am only half-joking.
- cperciva 10y ago
  I did say "at a good institution". ;-)