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> Based on my observations, marriage is the most reliable indicator of graduate student success. At least the male ones. At least in math, I would rather say t
by aleph_minus_one 3y ago
> Based on my observations, marriage is the most reliable indicator of graduate student success. At least the male ones.
At least in math, I would rather say that marriage is a counterindication that a great PhD thesis come out at the end, for the simple reason that being married means that math is only your second love, while writing a great PhD thesis in math requires the topic of your PhD thesis to be your nearly only love for the duration of your PhD studies.
- wholinator2 3y agoYa know, that makes sense and all. But I'd want to be careful about subtly implying that doing nothing but your research and forgoing personal relationships in favor of work is _better_ than having a life and a little worse thesis. Most of a career in research happens after the PhD anyway, is it possible those "This is my life" people do worse later on, when their potential contributions to fields would be maximizing? Having a life is an okay thing to want, if for no other reason than the people who are really crazy for it and want nothing but math research aren't going to listen to anyone about relationships anyway. If you find yourself seriously considering turning it down a little bit to find other avenues to personal fulfillment then you might not be one of those crazies and i think that's okay, maybe even better
- thsksbd 3y agoMy sister is in a relationship with a top, young, number theorist. Ill have to let her know the damage she's doing :D