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2019/11/30 | 2,272 | 9,396 | <issue_start>username_0: It has been 4.5 years since I joined as a PhD student.
* My supervisor asks me to draft almost all of his important emails. He will begin by briefing me the issue, and ask me to draft the email in a document and sent to him. He would ask me to do this even when I am busy doing experiments. Ma... |
2019/11/30 | 1,184 | 5,406 | <issue_start>username_0: We were working as a team to gather some data in the medical field and our research was concluded in the summer. I was the only member of the team that was interested in presenting the data so I contacted our senior who supervised the whole research about doing so. He sent me the data and I beg... |
2019/11/30 | 1,139 | 5,056 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be submitting a manuscript I have, but I am having a hard time deciding between two journals that are both suitable for my paper's topic.
Journal A has an impact factor of 5.6 but is a field-specific journal in a field I am not a part of. Researchers from my field publish in Journal A r... |
2019/11/30 | 578 | 2,385 | <issue_start>username_0: Which one is better? Taking an Exam with no preparation done beforehand or Skipping it altogether?
I have done the former (i.e take tests unprepared) a lot many times than the latter - so much that I have gotten sort of *used to* to it. I have observed that if I have insufficient time for prep... |
2019/11/30 | 455 | 1,877 | <issue_start>username_0: When using "Fortunately" in a technical paper, the appending statement can appear subjective; and hence shouldn't be used in an academic context (?). When used to highlight, for instance, the solution to a potential problem:
*"Thing X must be able to do difficult task Y. **Fortunately**, many ... |
2019/11/30 | 1,057 | 4,093 | <issue_start>username_0: My kid showed me [this New York Times article](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/health/medical-school-cost-diversity.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab). Why don't Canada and US offer medicine as undergrad?
[Australia does.](https://www.crimsoneducation.org/ca/blog/how-to-get-into-medicine)
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>... |
2019/12/01 | 2,675 | 11,421 | <issue_start>username_0: I have 30 years of professional experience as a software engineer and I'm at the point in my career where I can volunteer lots of time. I have helped with several childhood cancer organizations over the years but mostly was pulled into raising money.
At this point in my life, I would like to ... |
2019/12/01 | 520 | 2,061 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently discovered, to my delighted surprise, that my bachelor thesis had been cited in another bachelor thesis - however...
* my bachelor thesis has been entered in the reference list as an PhD thesis, which it clearly isn't, and
* I have been attributed a conclusion that I didn't draw, th... |
2019/12/01 | 1,004 | 3,917 | <issue_start>username_0: Related: [Miscited in a bachelor thesis](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/140919/58912)
In the above question, the OP mentions that,
>
> ...my bachelor thesis had been cited....I have been attributed a conclusion that I haven't drawn, and is indeed counter-indicated by the data I've coll... |
2019/12/02 | 1,318 | 5,661 | <issue_start>username_0: Two of my students interns have applied for graduate school and are now asking me for references. Both did well, but one did *really* well. The weaker student is still excellent, and will do well in grad school I’m sure, but my reference for him will not be as strong.
They are applying to som... |
2019/12/02 | 4,638 | 20,604 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working at a university in Europe. We have a great number of exchange students (one semester, year, of multiple years). I am having difficulties reaching some of these exchange students, especially, it seems, but not limited to those from non-Western cultures (e.g. China and India). Treati... |
2019/12/02 | 930 | 4,019 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student at a UK university and the project is a collaboration between the University and an industrial partner. My question is when the laptop is bought using the extra money allocated for training etc., who owns the laptop?<issue_comment>username_1: If it isn't specified in the coll... |
2019/12/02 | 1,297 | 5,541 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider this situation.
A research plan is formulated for a masters student (M) collectively by a professor (P) and a PhD student (G). M runs the experiments but has no idea how to extract knowledge from his experiments (he is not motivated enough to make the effort). P asks G to 'look into i... |
2019/12/02 | 890 | 4,093 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for grad schools (in the US) for next fall, and am currently a graduate student elsewhere (again in the US). This semester I was on a leave (with a research position at a third place), and the original plan was to take courses again in the spring semester, so I registered for those... |
2019/12/02 | 1,253 | 4,968 | <issue_start>username_0: The Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (IF) has the following eligibility requirement:
"Researchers must be experienced researchers (ER), i.e. at the date of the call deadline (for IF) ... be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experi... |
2019/12/03 | 7,071 | 29,399 | <issue_start>username_0: In Computer Science is it preferable to describe algorithms using pseudo code rather than real code? If so, why?
I've talked to a few academics who think so but I can't understand why. Some of the arguments I've heard:
1. *"Pseudo code is shorter."* Given a modern language like Clojure or Pyt... |
2019/12/03 | 2,563 | 11,334 | <issue_start>username_0: I have met a strange situation with one of my 2nd-year PhD students. During the past year, their progress was minimum. They implement and retest existing literature material but haven't been able to develop new contributions based on their research plan (although the ideas are there). I set up ... |
2019/12/03 | 2,504 | 10,841 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my bachelor's thesis (4th-year 1st semester) in one of the top 5 research group in my field in the world (but not a renowned university). I want to do direct PhD (also called Masters track PhD) after this and my supervisor is extremely impressed by my work and wants to convince me to... |
2019/12/03 | 764 | 3,269 | <issue_start>username_0: I will present work of mine in form of a poster on a national convention/congress/conference in my broader (STEM-related) field.
A manuscript has already been submitted by me, in english. Manuscripts will be available online for members of the society organizing the conference, and to everybod... |
2019/12/03 | 1,035 | 4,575 | <issue_start>username_0: Often, college students do not always know what kinds of notes they should be taking.
**How can I encourage students to take notes more efficiently and more effectively?**
In one of my lecture-style courses, I have lots of organized information on my lecture slides for reference purposes. Thi... |
2019/12/03 | 497 | 2,058 | <issue_start>username_0: So I went to a University in Canada to speak with Graduate studies coordinator to learn more about the program. While visiting, I bumped into the Chair of the department who is one of the Supervisors that I would love to work with. When he realized I was there for a visit, he invited me to his ... |
2019/12/04 | 811 | 3,491 | <issue_start>username_0: Can a 'bad' SOP keep you out of a program? Can a 'good' SOP help you? Can the SOP only hurt you?<issue_comment>username_1: All of the above. Of course the Statement of Purpose is important, or the university would not ask you to write one. It costs time for an evaluation committee to read throu... |
2019/12/04 | 1,781 | 7,687 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a third year undergraduate student in university. A year ago I decided to study pure math because I liked its rigorousness. As time moves on, frustration accumulates because I don't know what I can do with all the things I've learnt. Maybe it's partly because I haven't learnt eno... |
2019/12/04 | 5,012 | 21,464 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a professor at a Community College. My department has adopted policies through a majority vote . The two policies I have questions about are:
1. An instructor must use the approved textbook for any particular course.
2. An instructor may not use multiple-choice tests for assessments in cl... |
2019/12/04 | 450 | 1,899 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Japanese undergraduate junior student who is thinking of applying to graduate programs in Mathematics in the U.S. and the biggest problem for me is the Letter of Recommendation. I am planning to ask a teacher of my English class for one of my LOR because my senior who went for a grad sch... |
2019/12/04 | 3,078 | 13,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I overheard a student who said that they would use a project done in another course that semester as the final project in an entirely different course. (Let's call the original course Course 0 and the second course Course 2.)
I know it's bad practice to submit work to a class which had been s... |
2019/12/04 | 2,904 | 12,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply for a PhD in computer science. My end goal is to become a professor and teach at a university. I have interests in data structures, algorithms, networks and programming languages. I would love to apply for a PhD in algorithms but cannot figure out a research topic.
Can some one... |
2019/12/04 | 966 | 4,266 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for faculty positions this year and have asked four senior academics to write me reference letters.
Most of the applications had a deadline around December 1st, which I assume should be for the letter writers as well.
Three of my writers have submitted their letters, but the fou... |
2019/12/05 | 671 | 2,972 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently applying for a Ph.D. in Physics in the US. One of my recommenders has already submitted a letter to the schools I'm applying to, but I was advised by another faculty member that I should have gotten a letter from a different professor I worked with since the submitted one wouldn'... |
2019/12/05 | 558 | 2,422 | <issue_start>username_0: Can a PI decide to submit to a journal a previously agreed manuscript, uploaded to a pre-print server, and swap the first author with someone else after introducing some changes in the writing? Would the first author (student) have some way of defending himself against this?
EDIT: It is a fiel... |
2019/12/05 | 529 | 2,352 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to be admitted to a European program that would mean so much to my future carreer. Particularly important documents to be sent with the application are reccomendation letters from professors. I already asked my Bachelor advisor and he told me he will write the letter for me, and that's g... |
2019/12/05 | 682 | 2,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD in computational materials science, and I have been offered a stop gap postdoc position (at the moment for 6 months) by my PhD supervisor which I will be starting a month after my defense. Now, I have many manuscripts pending for submission and getting them out will be the highest pr... |
2019/12/05 | 976 | 4,197 | <issue_start>username_0: During writing my academic paper, I need to cite accuracy values of cited research paper.
I have been advised that if you will cite a paper, you need to read that paper entirely. But in this case, Do i need to validate results that they achieved.<issue_comment>username_1: This depends on the s... |
2019/12/05 | 391 | 1,713 | <issue_start>username_0: I was planning to do a reading project with a professor in my institute and had asked him in the last semester whether it would be possible for me to do it under his guidance. However he had politely denied the request saying that he was a bit busy at that time and maybe we could try it at a la... |
2019/12/05 | 290 | 1,220 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a recent transfer from academic to industry research. I am submitting to a conference in my new company's field, and I am disclosing COI -- organization (my company), relationship ("employment"), relationship ("salary from employment"). Then they want "dollar amount". Regrettably they are n... |
2019/12/06 | 2,682 | 11,415 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a friend who has been working on a PhD dissertation for over 3 years and he is supposed to be wrapping it up. Unfortunately, his thesis involves a complex model and populating the model with hard-to-obtain data. After having finally gathered all the data and plugged it into the model, he... |
2019/12/06 | 229 | 1,070 | <issue_start>username_0: I received review comments on a manuscript submitted about 6 months back. One of the reviewers suggested performing a few new experiments. But the same experiments were performed recently and the results have already been communicated elsewhere for possible consideration. How should I address t... |
2019/12/06 | 3,985 | 16,861 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in the field of education and I enjoy reading SE questions to stimulate my mind when I need a break. I find academia to be one of my most frequently visited sites.
When reading questions, answers, and comments to questions of teaching practices I often see content I conside... |
2019/12/06 | 647 | 2,847 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my PhD thesis. I used a number of statistical tests to test my hypothesis. Only one test was able to answer my question while the rest (3 tests) couldn't.
If I report the results of the tests which failed to answer my research question, it becomes a large number of tables and grap... |
2019/12/06 | 1,007 | 4,261 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in mathematics, and have recently gotten an opportunity to do applied/industrial research for a strong research institute in my country. As of now I have two MSc degrees in math and engineering respectively, and I also legally qualify as an Engineer. I have a passion for math, but also phys... |
2019/12/07 | 554 | 2,416 | <issue_start>username_0: At my university there are weekly seminars where faculty or students can do presentations for the department.
I had done several of these during my time as a graduate student, although admittedly they were seldomly composed of original work. They were often taking a recently published paper an... |
2019/12/07 | 1,123 | 5,303 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an ecology post-doc and considering switching from Windows to Linux for my main work computer (I am not a mathematical modeller). I have used Linux before and I am aware that, with effort, one can accomplish most any task in Linux that one can in Windows but I have not tried to convert my ... |
2019/12/07 | 4,456 | 17,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I struggled with low self confidence throughout my bachelors, masters and PhD in chemical engineering. After spending two years in Masters and six years in getting a PhD degree, I am lost at what I can do with my life.
Initially, my plan was to be in academia. Though I love doing research, I d... |
2019/12/07 | 791 | 3,405 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year undergraduate student (direct entry engineering) and today something happened that I have dreaded for a long time.
I received an email from my professor saying that he lost all marks from his computer, the midterm exam marks could be recovered but the assignments could not. ... |
2019/12/08 | 1,051 | 4,418 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my PhD in the Britain and I've got a lovely supervisor which is like a friend for me. I want to ask her to give me direct feedback and tell me directly if I am doing bullshit or about any other thing that she thinks I am not good and need to improve (forexample if the way I send emai... |
2019/12/08 | 1,105 | 4,196 | <issue_start>username_0: So what I’m wondering about is how research positions in government run research labs with organisations like Australia’s CSIRO or America’s FFRDC labs compare with equivalent positions in academia and industry.
What are their pay and conditions like, relatively speaking? How much job security... |
2019/12/08 | 2,163 | 9,682 | <issue_start>username_0: Respected teachers, I have this question for quite some time and I need your ideas.
When we teach physics we can have a lot of brainstorming sessions and adopt the "scientific method" ( Observation, Hypothesis, Experiments, Conclusion ). I do this regularly in my physics class. Recently I was... |
2019/12/08 | 491 | 2,112 | <issue_start>username_0: What are good choices to create figures in computer science research papers? Not talking about graphs here, just block diagrams and simple illustrations. For example, what is the tool that can be used to produce this figure?
<... |
2019/12/08 | 770 | 3,339 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to apply for a doctorate position in mathematics soon, and I'm wondering if my breadth can be of any disadvantage. I have two MSc degrees, in mathematics and engineering respectively. The past years I've coauthored papers in different field on the side, all of which had novel content.... |
2019/12/09 | 780 | 3,313 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be graduating from my undergraduate with a B.S. in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics with a ~3.25-3.30 in less than 2 weeks from now. I'm taking at least gap year and a half after I graduate and am planning on applying to PhD programs in CS in the near future. I have a semesters wor... |
2019/12/09 | 752 | 3,216 | <issue_start>username_0: As an undergrad, I was a double-major in neuroscience and music. Now, I'm working on putting together a CV for applications to master's programs in neuroscience. But, my thesis work was done in the music department and unrelated to neuroscience whatsoever. Should I include this on my CV, or wou... |
2019/12/09 | 4,088 | 17,120 | <issue_start>username_0: I attend a small liberal arts college in the US. Through the cross-registration program, we are permitted to take classes at a large state university at no extra cost to us. However, we are only allowed to enroll in one course at a time; the system will not allow us to take two during the same ... |
2019/12/09 | 3,994 | 16,617 | <issue_start>username_0: After finishing my studies, I worked as a researcher for a few months in the field of my master thesis, but was not quite satisfied with the field.
So, I tried to transition to industry. In my first job I was working in R&D as junior engineer and I quite liked it. Later on, I moved to pure sof... |
2019/12/09 | 408 | 1,746 | <issue_start>username_0: A few months ago a published a paper in a highly reputed journal. There were last-minute corrections. Finally, I received a link to share the article. The version obtained through the link was ok and I own a PDF copy of it. The link does not work anymore.
Now I see that the current online vers... |
2019/12/10 | 604 | 2,548 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a GRE score on hand but it is too low for the universities I am applying to and the deadlines are very near.
I am thinking of sending the application now with the current low score and I booked a slot to retake the GRE. Can I send an email to the university again to consider my new scor... |
2019/12/10 | 769 | 3,301 | <issue_start>username_0: **Tl;dr:** Defended my PhD two weeks ago. However, right from the time of the defense and up until the present moment, I am experiencing a huge lack of motivation and sense of purpose to do anything related to research or search for future positions. How to address this?
**Other details\*\*\*\... |
2019/12/10 | 1,411 | 6,130 | <issue_start>username_0: I find I am frequently uninterested in the weekly seminars in my faculty, which consists of applied mathematics, fluid dynamics, and computer science. My niche is a small sliver between applied maths and CS.
I know it's valuable to hear talks on things completely unrelated to what you do-- you... |
2019/12/10 | 304 | 1,280 | <issue_start>username_0: On a test on a course that isn't math, but uses it, such as physics or engineering, would using a CAS to reduce the handiwork I have to do be considered cheating?
For example, what if I used the equation solver to solve equations, rather than do it by hand? Or what if I let the calculator do i... |
2019/12/10 | 549 | 2,281 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I receive a personal, written invite to a conference. I would like to attend, and the procedure still requires me to submit an abstract and pay for the conference, would that count as an invited talk?
On one hand, it's not different procedurally from someone submitting an abstract that... |
2019/12/10 | 873 | 3,878 | <issue_start>username_0: Context:
I am a researcher in a Western European university.
As part of a masters courses in my uni, students have a rather long project to do (each student has its own project). This project is divided in two parts: an analysis part (short, they need to understand their project and state how... |
2019/12/10 | 587 | 2,670 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper and got it back with a major revision recommendation. There were many revision comments, and to answer some of them, I added appendices. Now I got the paper back with a second major revision (with many other comments). When I look at the paper as a whole, I see that it has n... |
2019/12/10 | 509 | 2,138 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper that is accepted and published in a journal. After it was accepted I realized that some of the errors were calculated in a wrong manner and hence they appeared around 1.5 times smaller in the paper (this was due to a wrong advice that my advisor gave me). I was busy at the moment... |
2019/12/10 | 334 | 1,360 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to publish my work in a journal,
I'm searching for those having an impact factor, indexed and non-paying.
I used [Elsevier finder](https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/), [Springer suggester](https://journalsuggester.springer.com/), DBLP,...tp pick up a list of journals in my resea... |
2019/12/10 | 386 | 1,637 | <issue_start>username_0: A professor pitched his project that needs research assistants at an event in my department on Monday. I talked to him after the event about 5 five mins, telling him my background and that I am really interested. I sent him my CV after the event on Monday evening. Now that Tuesday has passed. I... |
2019/12/10 | 1,539 | 6,602 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a small electricity and magnetism class, and I have recently become aware of other students using an online solution sheet (on slader.com). On the most recent homework, I (who didn't use the online solution sheet) got a significantly worse grade than I expected. When I read the TAs post... |
2019/12/11 | 519 | 2,447 | <issue_start>username_0: Is recommendation letter (faculty position) a completely professional thing ? I mean I completed PhD one year ago, I had good relation with my Phd advisor when I was his student. After that I left my country for postdoc and obviously the relation is not like earlier. Does keeping good relation ... |
2019/12/11 | 708 | 2,741 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my Ph.D. application to a University in December 2019. The following is the last email I received from a professor at this university (in June 2019):
>
> "Thanks for writing and for the great ideas -- I see a lot of energy and promise in your thoughts, and I encourage you to try t... |
2019/12/11 | 1,790 | 6,857 | <issue_start>username_0: Regarding a post-doc position, I recently wrote to a professor in the US by starting my mail "Dear Professor X" where X is the surname and she replied to me "Hello Y" where Y is my first name.
I am hesitating if I should start always with "Dear Professor Y1" where Y1 is her first name.
I did ... |
2019/12/11 | 1,227 | 5,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on my masters thesis which is the first time that I have ever really taken part in research activities. Throughout the experience I have learned a lot and I think that I would like to pursue a PhD in the field that I am currently working in right now. However, I feel that when all ... |
2019/12/11 | 1,040 | 4,478 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received back an exam, and noticed after reviewing it a few days later a serious grading discrepancy. I sent my professor an email to confirm that he would be available in his next office hour, but received no reply. I then stopped by his office at the beginning of office hours but f... |
2019/12/11 | 504 | 2,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I've started my graduate school applications for the next year. When I try to provide my university information I fill in a form with my grades. Since I am doing an Msc course this year I have not yet received any grades. I can't follow through the application without them though. Should I just... |
2019/12/11 | 1,727 | 7,469 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually, conferences give you between 1-2 hours to present your poster. My dilemma is that sometimes I am interested in learning about other posters during that time period. But I also have to keep next to my poster in case a referee or a potential collaborator of the conference comes and wants... |
2019/12/12 | 3,088 | 11,643 | <issue_start>username_0: As someone who has a relative deficit in quantitive reasoning (63%ile) vs. verbal (97%ile), but a strong interest in applied math, is it possible to be successful and competitive at the PhD level?
I am committed to putting in the effort, and I want to believe that this is possible - but it is ... |
2019/12/12 | 1,337 | 5,806 | <issue_start>username_0: Most of the time, when I am invited to review a paper, I am only provided with the title and abstract. The full manuscript becomes available only after I have agreed to review the paper. As per [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/101421/112007), this seems not to be common in a... |
2019/12/12 | 3,051 | 12,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently speaking to a university lecturer about studying at undergraduate and PhD level. He spoke about how many successful undergraduate students ended up doing poorly at research level, as the skills needed to succeed at undergraduate and research level differ. Is this true? I'm just c... |
2019/12/12 | 192 | 838 | <issue_start>username_0: During a rebuttal period, with reviews that show a strong indication of overall reject, can I submit the paper to another venue (without violating concurrent submission rules)? The submission deadline in the other venue is before the final response of the current venue.<issue_comment>username_1... |
2019/12/12 | 2,111 | 9,054 | <issue_start>username_0: I know this may seem a duplicate question, but I haven't find an answer to my question and I am scared to ask my supervisor.
I am doing my literature review in sociolinguistics and I have different reputable sources: articles and books.
Most of the authors quote the same famous works while desc... |
2019/12/12 | 431 | 1,950 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it considered ethical or appropriate for a researcher to hire a freelance contractor to perform or assist in some secondary tasks related to the preparation of a research papers? To make some concrete examples, what about (1) drawing illustrations, (2) transcribing manuscript notes into Late... |
2019/12/13 | 1,509 | 6,441 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted my completed Bachelors Thesis. In the guidelines we were given for the thesis, it was stipulated that the thesis should not be more than a certain amount of pages long. My thesis due to the nature of the topic it deals with ended up being quite a bit longer than that.
I sp... |
2019/12/13 | 447 | 1,816 | <issue_start>username_0: I defended my PhD recently. I don't have a good CV to start with. In 5 years of my PhD, I managed to publish just 2 (first author) decent papers (I.F ~2.5 & 3.1). I applied for several postdoc positions this year, but did not get any positive response from the PIs.
Now, I am going to join my ... |
2019/12/13 | 940 | 3,870 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a master student in computer science. I study at a school where we have only one take for the exam. I study really hard, yet I am never able to feel confident enough when the exams approach. I am nervous that somehow things will go bad and it only makes me perform worse. I tried s... |
2019/12/13 | 1,068 | 4,427 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a freshman and I'm thinking of taking 3 upper division math courses next semester: Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra 2, and Topology. However, I think that 3 math courses for credit would overwhelm me. I still would like to learn all 3 of them.
I was considering auditing Topolog... |
2019/12/13 | 1,042 | 4,057 | <issue_start>username_0: I had my finals for mg chemistry lecture. When I was starting my examination my professor went to my side and picked up a piece of paper then I realized it was the formula card that one of my classmate created.
Then after the exam my professor talked to me. First he was saying that I keep on l... |
2019/12/13 | 2,815 | 12,284 | <issue_start>username_0: I found an engineering-related academic paper from a number of years ago that was published in an obscure journal, likely not peer-reviewed. The English writing is very bad, like it went through three languages in google translate, and many key parts are nearly incomprehensible with awful gramm... |
2019/12/13 | 731 | 2,973 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm asking this here as opposed to a more technical stack exchange as I'm looking for a ... well... less technical type of answer.
I'm fed up with being passed from pillar to post by my institution's A/V department when the microphone equipment in a lab breaks, and a fix that takes weeks to c... |
2019/12/14 | 3,219 | 13,544 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a last year PhD math student in an university in USA-Canada.
The university I work in offers graduate students the option to teach first year calculus courses as a special kind of TA. The demand for this is high and not everyone gets a position for a given term. However, the department's... |
2019/12/14 | 996 | 4,148 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that honesty is the best policy, but is it a good idea to say "I have no clue" when the SOP [explicitly asks](https://icme.stanford.edu/admissions/application#SOP) me to describe my "intentions relative to graduate study and life beyond the University"?
Basically, I don't have any... |
2019/12/14 | 712 | 2,955 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing an essay in English, but much of my source material is in Spanish (my first language). I know how to reference my sources in the bibliography, but how do I quote within the text? Do I translate it myself and still use quotation marks?<issue_comment>username_1: "I have no clue" is no... |
2019/12/14 | 494 | 2,075 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m new to the culture of research and my professor suggested that I try to submit an abstract to a conference. The only problem is, I have no idea how you figure out what type of conferences there are. I’m wondering if there’s some type of conference portal that lists them all in different fie... |
2019/12/14 | 1,311 | 5,823 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently working in a computational research lab where my supervisor just hands tasks to me to do that will help him with his papers but I don't get any input in the creative process whatsoever. For example, he's asked me to transfer data and create data tables but I'm never given any cont... |
2019/12/14 | 544 | 2,089 | <issue_start>username_0: Is someone completes a Ph.D. from a former Warsaw-pact country, would her Ph.D. be recognized in North America as in the same status as a North Americal Ph.D. in case of academia related career?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, of course. Go into any American mathematics department's webpage and ... |
2019/12/15 | 525 | 2,133 | <issue_start>username_0: Does it reflect worse on a student to skip class or not go to any office hours? My professors so far think it's better for one to never show up to ask questions but go to classes but I disagree because classes aren't always useful. Sometimes my professors read right out of the book for the enti... |
2019/12/15 | 663 | 2,777 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to apply to graduate programs in both Statistics and Data Science. To me, Statistics, Data Science, and Machine Learning essentially refers to the same subject, but some universities are offering different programs. Still, it's rare for a program in Statistics to not mention DS/ML at ... |
2019/12/15 | 1,149 | 4,305 | <issue_start>username_0: <https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/fellowship#categories>
Apparently these fellowships are popular in the UK? What sorts of universities care about them? And why?<issue_comment>username_1: (Nearly) all UK universities want to signal that they take teaching seriously, both for student recruitment an... |
2019/12/15 | 588 | 2,303 | <issue_start>username_0: I am PhD student finishing my first year in Computer Vision. While I take my research seriously, I was wondering what I could (or should?) do that is not research. I can think of very different things:
* Studying related subjects that do not directly benefit my PhD as Natural Language Processi... |
2019/12/15 | 1,179 | 4,990 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a PhD and whenever I apply for a librarian job I am told that I am overqualified for this position. How can I overcome this barrier?<issue_comment>username_1: Some ideas are:
Apply to better libraries. I doubt that the Bodleian Library has a problem with PhDs.
Apply for other jobs tha... |
2019/12/15 | 442 | 1,862 | <issue_start>username_0: Three months ago, a professor has offered to me a research position at his university with high salary, and I rejected it because I wanted to join a master's program. Unfortunately, I made a bad decision and now I changed my mind and became very interested to the exciting position he offered to... |
2019/12/15 | 1,698 | 7,244 | <issue_start>username_0: A fellow researcher shared with me his notes where he attempts to solve an open problem in maths/computer science. Both he and his student have been trying to solve it for over a year, and by now they are not actively working on it anymore.
Shortly after he shared with me his notes, I found a ... |
2019/12/15 | 1,855 | 7,719 | <issue_start>username_0: I am now living in a state (in the US) where marijuana is legal (for recreational use) and I'd like to be able to try it. However, I am concerned that doing so might effect my job or grant prospects as a current graduate student. In my field, students can intern for the DoD or NSA and my unders... |
2019/12/16 | 941 | 4,100 | <issue_start>username_0: We had a group project that involved 4 people. 3 of us worked really hard. Personally, I feel I did about 1/2 the work. We had a Viva at the end of the project. I got nervous and did quite badly. When the grades were out I got a B, same as the guy who didn't really do much. I'm wondering if it'... |