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Being ambitious and willing to work to get As and get into a top program is different than being so obsessed with it that you punish yourself if you get a B on
by serge2k 10y ago
Being ambitious and willing to work to get As and get into a top program is different than being so obsessed with it that you punish yourself if you get a B on a paper (even if you get an A in the class).
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoI'm not so sure about that. Most people I've met who actually got into PhD programs weren't particularly ambitious, and didn't have a precise idea what they wanted to do with their prospective research careers. They'd just been raised as academic perfectionists and gone onto the "obvious" next step in academic perfectionism.