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Asking new PhD students to change culture is like asking Entry-Level Developers to change the management culture of Google.
by voxl 6y ago
Asking new PhD students to change culture is like asking Entry-Level Developers to change the management culture of Google.
- asdff 6y agoThe difference is all professors were once lowly PhD students.
- Xelbair 6y agowhich makes it even worse, as they want to propagate it further.
- throwaway2245 6y agobut not all PhD students become professors - only those who successfully (choose to) navigate the status quo.
- YeGoblynQueenne 6y agoMy comment is not asking anything of anyone. It's pointing out that trying to convince new PhDs, who might see the distortions in their field for what they are, that it's all in their mind and everything is OK, is only perpetuating the awful situation. Anyway it's more complicated than what you make it sound. For instance, if you don't like the culture at Google, you have a choice to not work for Google. And if you don't like the culture in some field of research you also have the option to not join that field of research. For sure, you don't know _exactly_ what you're getting into before you get into academia, but students who are interested in doing a PhD already have some experience -often, substantial experience- of how things go and even of the behaviour of the professors they choose as their advisers, with whom they may have done a Master's project etc. Some have publishe papers, presented posters and joined conferences already from their Master's or degree. And so on. Very few people just stumble into a PhD by mistake.