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That's not true. Do you even know how grad school works? Research you produce and grants you pull in benefit the university. Your research also is directed by y
by cultus 7y ago
That's not true. Do you even know how grad school works? Research you produce and grants you pull in benefit the university. Your research also is directed by your PI, a university employee and your boss, and often involves directly assisting their projects. How would a research university look if all of its grad students stopped doing research?
- chrisseaton 7y agoIt is true. I’m sure the university benefits, but you decide what to do yourself. You aren’t doing work given to you by the university or your advisor. Your advisor is absolutely not your ‘boss’, they’re a tutor, almost a peer.
- legolas2412 7y ago> You aren’t doing work given to you by the university or your advisor. Something tells me you have not been through PhD, or are have not interacted with other PhD students. You absolutely work on what your PI got their grant for.
- chrisseaton 7y agoNope I do have a PhD.
- cultus 7y agoIt's safe to say your experience is highly atypical. Even if a grad student's stipend is not funded on an RA for their research, the research still costs money. It is certainly funded from somewhere, and it's not coming from the tuition. It's almost always the PI's grant. And that means your research is on a specific problem. I can't speak to what your experience is, but what I am saying here is typical in US universities.