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In my experience there's an inverse correlation for high level education (MS, PhD) and being smart, productive, etc. My approach was finish undergrad and then
by spaghetti 18y ago
In my experience there's an inverse correlation for high level education (MS, PhD) and being smart, productive, etc. My approach was finish undergrad and then take my "education" into my own hands. It's worked well.
- queensnake 18y agoAre the PhDs you know in the sciences? The ones I've met, even the bottom rank, are at least solidly smart.
- spaghetti 18y agoYes, in the sciences. In my experience I've noticed PhD comes along with a certain lack of emotional maturity... which plays out in various negative ways (overly emotional technical debates, focused more on blaming people for problems rather than pursuing the simplest solution and so on).
- donaq 18y agoI wonder if it could possibly have escaped your notice that Donald Knuth, Djikstra, Peter Norvig, Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Linus Torvalds and Guido Van Rossum all possess Masters degrees and above. And these are only luminaries in the field of computer science. It seems to me that the smartest and most productive people on the planet tend to have undergone higher education. I can only conclude that your experience with Masters and PhDs has been strangely skewed.