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> In fact, we are looking for students, which is to say that when admitted to a Ph.D., students lack the skills necessary to undertake the work, and the expecta
by subroutine 4y ago
> In fact, we are looking for students, which is to say that when admitted to a Ph.D., students lack the skills necessary to undertake the work, and the expectation is that they will be trained as a matter of course.
Except you are not looking for students, you are looking for the top graduates in the field, and you are training them for a job that barely exists.
- ModernMech 4y ago> Except you are not looking for students, you are looking for the top graduates in the field, and you are training them for a job that barely exists. Ph.D. students are in fact students, and I'm training them in a discipline in which I am one of the few experts in the world, to the point where they are an additional world expert on that topic. That takes a lot of time.