from the article: "Junior graduate students think senior graduate students are smarter, but they’re not: they simply have more practice. Senior graduate studen

from the article: "Junior graduate students think senior graduate students are smarter, but they’re not: they simply have more practice. Senior graduate students think junior professors are smarter, but they’re not: they simply have more practice." My M.S advisor is a really hard worker, so he has a lot of experience doing research and is very good at it. For a while as an undergrad, I thought he was not particularly smart, just hardworking. However, after I started working on my first real problem as part of my thesis, I changed my mind. I realized that to work hard you actually need to be smart (of course there are many other factors related to time and money), otherwise it is very frustrating.