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Don't sell yourself of biochem short though, you were an undergrad thinking outside the box. Sometimes we happen upon drugs by accident, but often someone went
by kuhewa 4y ago
Don't sell yourself of biochem short though, you were an undergrad thinking outside the box. Sometimes we happen upon drugs by accident, but often someone went through the same type of train of thought as you and found an ingress into our biochemistry that could actually be exploited for a desirable outcome.
- ramraj07 4y agoHa ha I don’t, I thought I was on the right path, when I applied to Harvard for my PhD I sent them a copy of 30 such wacky ideas thinking this would convince them, but didn’t. I got rejected from every top 50 university first time (on top of good gpa, top GRE scores etc). Apparently publishing in your undergrad (which is pretty much something of pure luck in india) is the only currency they take into account. I still found my way to a good school and did my PhD though!
- kuhewa 4y agoI also believe ideas are cheap and they probably do too, somehow that isn't paradoxical in my mind with my previous statement but I'm not sure if I could cogently explain why :)
- ramraj07 4y agoI’m well past those days so don’t take it as a treatise on my own abilities but my experiences since have not suggested that these schools used any good metric in choosing students. They merely selected for the successful and hardworking folks. The latter trait is great but the former is not. If anything a phd is training for facing failure. I also submitted subject GRE scores which in retrospect clearly differentiated people who will attain academic success and people who won’t. The universities literally said they won’t consider the scores even if submit them. Also, ideas are not cheap. Sure you have to execute on them as well, but ideas are not cheap at all. At least not the good ones.