• www.uic.edu
• www.cs.uic.edu
• http://www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/gsc/ -- UIC Graduate Student Council -- Graduate student government @ UIC and is a source for funding for travel awards.
• http://grad.uic.edu/cms/ -- UIC Graduate College -- a source for funding for travel awards.
• http://www.uicwise.org/ -- UIC Women in Science and Engineering group -- mentoring opportunities, organizes outreach events, organizes seminars + workshops and offers travel awards for women.
• http://uic-geo.net/site/ -- UIC Graduate Employees Organization -- union representing teaching + graduate assistants at UIC.

Graduate School Survival Guides:

• http://compbio.cs.uic.edu/~tanya/mentoring/MentoringResources.htm
• http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html
• http://www.cs.umd.edu/~oleary/gradstudy/gradstudy.html

Writing Resources:

• http ://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/how-to.html

Humor:

• http://www.phdcomics.com