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Not positive about hiring committees but I think most would be very open and judge you fairly. It won't be easy to get into a good PhD program, even with prior
by bo1024 6y ago
Not positive about hiring committees but I think most would be very open and judge you fairly. It won't be easy to get into a good PhD program, even with prior master's research experience. Did you get and keep old recommendation letters from your master's? That would be helpful. You could throw your application out there, but if not successful, a way forward is to identify a research area or problem, start reading papers, and get in touch with some current researchers (if they are slow to respond, their PhD students or postdocs). Demonstrate your knowledge and enthusiasm and see if you can join on a research problem. That project and recommendations from it will get you in somewhere (maybe the same lab), if successful.
- pnathan 6y ago>. Did you get and keep old recommendation letters from your master's? Let's go with _nah_: at this point they'd be almost a decade old. It would be a measurement that is almost irrelevant to who I am today and my experience. I'm sure I can swing managerial recommendations etc, and it's not out of the equation that, at least at the local level, I could do some interesting volunteer work at the local U.