disarmingly forthright mscs advice

Read the man pages and check the return values!

Join ACM and IEEE, compete and practice good opsec.
Most code you read is broken, including:
- open source stuff
- industry code
- textbook code
Bookmark, study, and seek out good code
Learn the entire toolchain, details don’t need to memorized right away but should be understood
Learn a scripting language, functional language, and a data retrival language, and learn C & C++ well.
always be shaping the thesis
Don’t be afraid to ask for clarification
Professors only sometimes have hazy ideas of what’s happening