Tips for Early PhD Students
Getting a PhD is about doing science Getting a PhD is about learning how to journey into the unknown and come back with new information to tell the world. This involves getting lost or confused wit…
Getting a PhD is about doing science Getting a PhD is about learning how to journey into the unknown and come back with new information to tell the world. This involves getting lost or confused with results that don’t seem right— not the absence of results, but results that didn’t fit expectations. Uri Alon’s concept of being lost in the cloud is spot on ( see his TED talk ). Doing research is very different than reading papers or designing experiments on an exam, and your goal during your PhD is to practice working through unexpected results. That great idea from an exiting grad student is pr
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