Friends I need some advice regarding publishing journal article. I appreciate your input. I am picking up similar project and will be doing almost identical thesis that was done by previous graduate student. Being a newbie,  some confusions are: is it worthwhile doing similar projects and will it be problem in publishing article later. I want my article to be different. also, Can you guys give us some tips on how to survive graduate school and advisors, paper publishing, thesis and all that ?

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