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Keep in mind that this is what a PhD is like at elite universities. If you take away interesting researches, great interns from big companies, and awesome colle
by namelezz 11y ago
Keep in mind that this is what a PhD is like at elite universities. If you take away interesting researches, great interns from big companies, and awesome colleagues provided by those universities, then you may see a different picture of what a PhD life is like.
- dheera 11y agoPretty much. I got my PhD from the same school and department as the author. The only thing I would say though is it's more like "this is what a PhD is like at a good research group/department". There are a few excellent researchers at "non-elite" schools where I have friends doing very well, publishing in top journals, and being extremely productive. There are also people at "elite" schools doing not so well because their research direction just isn't that school's forte or they didn't encounter the right group of people for their own passions. In any case, when I applied to grad school, my strategy wasn't really to apply to safety schools after the competitive schools. Instead I applied simultaneously to competitive schools as well as several companies, and decided that if I didn't get into a PhD program at a place I liked, I was going to go to industry or industry research instead.