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This trickles down to the grad students and their relationship with their advisors. The deal we were given was: "publish three papers and you get your PhD". T
by jboggan 12y ago
This trickles down to the grad students and their relationship with their advisors. The deal we were given was: "publish three papers and you get your PhD". This creates some really perverse incentives on both sides.
- pgbovine 12y agothat sounds like pretty clear expectations to me, much better than the nebulous "do something novel for a few years, impress some old people, and then maybe you'll get a PhD, just maybe." yes, the game is imperfect and always stacked against newbies (as any game is), but at least you know where the goalposts are. the experience of my peers in grad school mirrored this "three papers -> PhD" heuristic: http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-overview.htm http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-overview.htm