How to succeed as a graduate student in neuroscience?
ramki krishnan
Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:07 UTC
Hello!
Being a graduate student really sucks…I do hear this from every normal graduate student.And being an young graduate student i totally agree with that.
So i like to start an open discussion about how to become a successful graduate student.One can share their experience,suggestions and advices blablabla.
Thank you all
A frustrated PhD student :-(
Updated 28 October 2008 14:13 UTC
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i am feeling bit frusted while writing upm y thesis now days.. otherwise ..life of a graduate student is cool..
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There is this comic strip on phdcomics.com that cheers me up whenever I feel down and frustrated. It will not tell you how to succeed, but it does tell you what it is exactly that frustrates us and what we have to cope with.
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hi:
my experience is to find a group of person who have similar interesting your field and make friends with them. that maybe will help you feel easier. -
Try to get some help from your peers and your supervisor. Also try to spend some time doing something non-academic that you are really interested in…
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For me it is difficult to learn the unwritten rules. I am thankful for great supervisors who have invested large chunks of time into raw material like me! I have found that it is the greatest scientists in the field who are most open to sharing information…The PhD comics Katya posted made me laugh. I think it is important to recognise that where many of us are going is uncharted territory and that contributions will be questioned before they are celebrated!
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Hi all frustated PhD students.
Being selected as a grad isnt easy.We all have experienced this simple fact through various institutions of selection procedures/entrance examinations/rigorous interviews et al. So, why do we all expect life to be easy after selection? I know, we all brave through the rigorous selection regimes thinking of the good times awaiting us beyond this grind. But the Scientists are making so much of an effort to make sure they get a diligent, ever-optimistic, self-driven, motivated, intelligent grad student. They obviously may set high levels of expectancy from you (in terms of output/ideas/diligence/will to overcome all hurdles etc). So. while the grads tend to(though not always but mostly) relax and have a sigh of relief after the selection grind, the guide thinks otherwise. He/She expects(almost always far too much) you to maintain the flair that got you the position/fellowship and even outperform yourself while the truth is that you put all your energies and have alraedy outperformed yourself durig the grind and kinda lost some vigour)(mmay be temporary though).Okay, the problems are clear but what are the solutions , if any? Well, the best way to get up and going is definitely show your guide that you can handle the project yourself(the more u yourself believe it , the better). Do not expect help but find it yourself through google/forums/seniors/faculties/communications with people in same field etc alongwith persistent interactions with these people on new/old ideas to develop balanced perspectives.
So my key wud be take sole responsibility and you can outperform urself again.So go n amaze urself!
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