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> A lot more mental energy went to grant writing than teaching or research. As a PhD student, I can tell you firsthand that that is not true for all professor
by javert 13y ago
> A lot more mental energy went to grant writing than teaching or research.
As a PhD student, I can tell you firsthand that that is not true for all professors.
I was naturally very skeptical of the academic-governmental complex, but it turns out that academia can come fairly close to the idealized image people have of it. The professor I work for spend around 10% of his time on grant funding, and gets plenty.
- mathattack 13y agoI was very poor at applying my stats knowledge at the time, a sample size of one is hard to draw conclusions from. One thing that is very true is there is not a lot of control over research. As a Phd you are bound to your advisor (which you can choose) and as a non-tenured faculty you are bounded by what can get funded. As an undergrad I thought, "Being a faculty member is great, you get to create whatever you want in Computer Science." Once I realized that it was indeed a real job, my enthusiasm wrenched very (too?) hard in the other direction.