Following the law
A guide for the perplexed graduate student doing rearch.
二班口号Going to graduate school to pursue a doctorate is a major commitment of time and effort. It is not for everyone. Once in a graduate programme, choosing a rearch advir is perhaps the most important decision a student can make. Likewi, choosing the right students is esntial for the careers of advirs. It is obvious that mentors and students must have common rearch interests and compatible work habits. But it is sometimes less obvious that they must learn to communicate with each other. Developing a functional working relationship is important even between 'good' students and 'good' advirs, and this often takes some time.
In this spirit, I offer 20 'laws' as a guide to graduate students doing thesis rearch. Each contains sound advice about the facts of life in graduate rearch, particularly from the viewpoint of a thesis advir. Several have been slightly exaggerated for effect, or are not to be taken too literally. Some clearly pertain to experimental rearch, although they have obvious counterparts for other types of rearch.
I developed the laws to help motivate some of the graduate students in my group, to explain how to
be an effective student and to convince them that supervid rearch is a symbiotic (although not symmetric) interaction between student and advir. I admit that I am not always successful in this endeavour.
" Supervid rearch is a symbiotic (although not symmetric)
interaction between student and advir. "
I also u the laws as general advice for graduate students in my department. All doctoral candidates in the department receive a copy of the laws when they enter our programme, to help them understand how to work with an advir as they move from the undergraduate mode of taking cours to the graduate mode of conducting supervid rearch. The laws em to resonate with my faculty colleagues, and veral have posted them and ud them. Although the laws require no interpretation, students may understand them better by understanding their advirs better. Advirs,
including my own students' advir, love to recall the 'good old days' when they were graduate students. They all worked 20-hour days, ven days a week, and they never slept. They needed to build from scratch every instrument they ud in their work and they thought of every idea in their thes. And, most importantly, they always, always, took to heart their advirs' every suggestion an
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On a more rious note, there are some real overarching themes in the laws. In rearch, being right is paramount, and ideas and results must be evaluated using objective methods untainted by egos. Productive people are productive becau they have good work habits. Students need to grow professionally and advirs need to assist them. The relationship between graduate student and advir truly is symbiotic. (See box)
The Laws of Herman
1. Your vacation begins after you defend your thesis.
2. In rearch, what matters is what is right, and not who is right.
3. In rearch and other matters, your advir is always right, most of the time.
4. Act as if your advir is always right, almost all the time.
5. If you think you are right and you are able to convince your advir, your advir will be very happy.
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6. Your productivity varies as (effective productive time spent per day)1,000.
7. Your productivity also varies as 1/(your delay in analysing acquired data)1,000.
8. Take data today as if you know that your equipment will break tomorrow.
9. If you would be unhappy to lo your data, make a permanent back-up copy of them within five minutes of acquiring them.
10. Your advir expects your productivity to be low initially and then to be above threshold after a year or so.
11. You must become a bigger expert in your thesis area than your advir.
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13. When you don't cooperate, your advir's blood pressure either goes up a bit or it goes down to zero.
14. Usually, only when you can publish your results are they good enough to be part of your thesis.
15. The higher the quality, first, and quantity, cond, of your publishable work, the better your thesis.
16. Remember, it's your thesis. You (!) need to do it.
17. Your advir wants you to become famous, so that he/she can finally become famous.
18. Your advir wants to write the best letter of recommendation for you that is possible.钢琴基础知识
19. Whatever is best for you is best for your advir.
20. Whatever is best for your advir is best for you.
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The laws were inspired by the 'Laws of the Hou of God' from The Hou of God by Samuel Shem (Richard Marek, 1978), which provided a somewhat different brand of advice to medical interns. The author thanks Jonathan Spanier, Yigal Komem and other colleagues for suggestions.
