«Graduate advisors don't talk to their students about perseverance and optimism.
Not exact matches
Elliot Lipeles, 40, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) says his
graduate advisor had such a talk with him, «but I didn't take it seriously.»
De Montjoye is joined on the paper by his thesis
advisor, Alex «Sandy» Pentland, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Erez Shmueli, a postdoc in Pentland's group; and Samuel Wang, a software engineer at Foursquare who was a
graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science when the research was
done.
A new study of science PhDs who embarked on careers between 2004 and 2014 showed that while nearly two - thirds chose employment outside academic science, their reasons for
doing so had little to
do with the advice they received from faculty
advisors, other scientific mentors, family, or even
graduate school peers.
I spend «down» time reading papers, chatting science with my lab mates or
advisor, or getting other work
done (at the beginning of my
graduate career, this was class assignments or grading for my teaching assignments... lately, it's writing!).
I got raked over the coals by my
graduate advisor for making that mistake, and didn't
do it again.
Contact your academic department (
graduate program director,
graduate career
advisor, department chair, or others) to ask if your program collects such data (even if you don't find it published online).