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>In contrast, after my first project as a PhD student, my advisor straight-up told me that I needed to shed the engineering mindset to succeed. Inventing new te
by eli_gottlieb 9y ago
>In contrast, after my first project as a PhD student, my advisor straight-up told me that I needed to shed the engineering mindset to succeed. Inventing new techniques was the goal, and so you need to adopt a mentality of confronting problems head on (rather than designing the system to avoid confronting them).
That sounds heavenly.
- spaceseaman 9y agoIf you have the mindset for this type of work, then a PhD is an amazing experience. There are only a select few places that give you that much freedom. If you don't have this mindset, a PhD will make you very angry, and you'll feel like you've wasted several years of your life.