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> previously a […] PhD candidate in Plasma Physics at Princeton University The advice is generally not to advertise yourself as having been a PhD candidate: yo
by wizzwizz4 1y ago
> previously a […] PhD candidate in Plasma Physics at Princeton University
The advice is generally not to advertise yourself as having been a PhD candidate: you're basically advertising that you couldn't complete a PhD. (Insert obligatory caveats about academia having problems, and failure to complete a PhD not implying that somebody is incapable.)
- HPsquared 1y ago"Didn't" is not the same as "couldn't". Priorities change, and completing a PhD is a massive time commitment.
- crinkly 1y agoAs a former PhD candidate, yes that. Honestly in my case I discovered I like being paid actual money and despise academic politics. Got a job offer so I phoned in sick on a catch up with my adviser and never went back. No one even checked on me for 6 weeks (!)
- ip26 1y agoGiven he left Princeton early and is now supposedly synthesizing gold merely two years later, the narrative seems in his favor.
- floxy 1y ago>allegedly synthesizing gold in large volumes Are they alleging they are currently synthesizing gold? Seems like they are saying, if you do X, Y, and Z with a fusion reactor at some time in the future, you will also get gold as a byproduct.
- greesil 1y agoWell, he did pass his qualifiers so I guess that means something.
- LinguaBrowse 1y agoDuring my research internship, I met many PhD students whose labs simply ran out of funding. In some cases, they'd ended up having to scrap their PhD as the topic was too specialist to do anywhere else (e.g. requires a high level of biocontainment) and nobody wanted to fund it. I think if you got three years into a PhD and were faced with the prospect of starting it all over again in another lab, it wouldn't take much to convince you to throw in the towel and do something else instead.