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You can follow him on Twitter if you'd like. 3 qualities of successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency. What doesn't matter There's a ruinous misconception that a Ph.D. must be smart. This can't be true. A smart person would know better than to get a Ph.D. "Smart" qualities like brilliance and quick-thinking are irrelevant in Ph.D. school. Certainly, being smart helps. Moreover, as anyone going through Ph.D. school can tell you: people of less than first-class intelligence make it across the finish line and leave, Ph.D. in hand.
As my advisor used to tell me, "Whenever I felt depressed in grad school--when I worried I wasn't going to finish my Ph.D. Since becoming a professor, I finding myself repeating a corollary of this observation, but I replace "getting a Ph.D. " with "obtaining grant funding. " Update: Within a month of writing that last line, I was awarded my first three grants. Perseverance To escape with a Ph.D., you must meaningfully extend the boundary of human knowledge.
You can take classes and read papers to figure out where the boundary lies. That's easy. Tenacity Cogency Translations. Phd & Depression. | thinking is the new black. After a little procrastination and fashion chat here is the 1st of a series of the promised posts about making corrections to a thesis. As you can see I’ve begun with a cheery title: PhD & Depression. Please stick with reading this post. There’ll be a few paragraphs of woe and misery as context but there is advice and cheer at the end When I was starting to think about what I wanted to say, I came across and incredibly sad blog post.
The author begins by saying something along the lines of ” My PhD has literally been an emotional rollercoaster — sometimes, I feel like a manic-depressive.” But, the real tragedy is the many comments which run from 2006 until October of this year from people stuck in a 5 year or 6 year black hole of revision, corrections, fallings out, rejections, bad advice and isolation. Here’s a sample of what people said I so desperately want to say something positive and helpful now about the experience of doing revisions. I hope this helps someone a little bit. Www.universityworldnews.com/filemgmt_data/files/JHEPM_Casey.pdf#
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge: By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little: By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more: With a bachelor's degree, you gain a specialty: A master's degree deepens that specialty: Reading research papers takes you to the edge of human knowledge: Once you're at the boundary, you focus: You push at the boundary for a few years: Until one day, the boundary gives way: And, that dent you've made is called a Ph.D Of course, the world looks different to you now: So, don't forget the bigger picture: Keep pushing. There's a bit more below, but I also wrote a follow-up 5 years after the illustrated guide which may be of interest -- HOWTO: Get tenure.
Related posts If you like these posts, then I recommend the book A PhD Is Not Enough Get it in print; fund students; save lives By request, a print version of The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. is on sale. Click here to preview or buy it. Why biology? License: Creative Commons Resources. Dec. 26th. Coming Soon - Stay tuned for a BIG announcement about an awesome project Jorge is working on! PHD Store - Our store was down for a while, but now it is back! Free excerpt from The PHD Movie 2!
- Watch this free clip from the movie that Nature called "Astute, funny"! Watch the new movie! - The PHD Movie 2 screenings are in full swing! Filming is done! Coming to Campuses this Fall! The Science Gap - Watch Jorge's TEDx Talk: Four Pillars of a PhD. . In discussing this idea with other PhD's using a . These themes are cyclic in nature, and can be extremely severe. At times, it can result in "academic suicide" in which someone decides to just plain quit. Depression: PhD work is lonely. You're on a path that no one else has travelled, and far too often, it seems like no one cares what you're doing. This may or may not be true; regardless, it feels this way.
As a PhD student, you invest so much effort, so much energy into your work -- and it's really personal energy since it is your work, and not something you don't care about. There are upsides to PhD's, don't get me wrong. Next time: What I've seen successful PhD students do... Ph.D. Depression: Ten Tips for Staying Sane While Getting a PhD. When starting this blog a few months ago, my goal was to alternate posts between those that document my struggle with PhD Depression and those that provide tips for surviving the PhD program. I didn't think it was useful to focus entirely on the negative and wanted to suggest some things that were helping me pull myself out of my all time low, which caused me to start this blog back in July. I've collected the first 10 here for anyone who's interested in getting an overview of what I said.
Within each tip post are suggestions of how to go about putting the tip into practice, so click on the links if they sound interesting. As usual I'd love to hear feedback if this is useful or worthless or missing something that works for you. Without further ado... Write down your negative thoughts - Identify what it is that is really bothering you.