The doctorate is a stepping point in your career. For the moment let me focus on the PhD. In a future moment I will talk about DPDS. 1. You are doing a PhD since you want to enter the...
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In general, if someone tells you something that is so far from your past experience, you ought think thrice about whether it is credible. If a social science scholar tells you they can measure or computer something to one part...
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Proviso-- If you are starting in a new field of study, or if the doctoral research period may involve lab or fieldwork of two or three years, the following does not readily apply. In your first two years you should...
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You've got to do your part to maintain the community that is called the department or the school. You need to show up for faculty meetings, or committee meetings, and you must make an appearance at retreats, parties, and memorials....
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Lindzen has been a skeptic since day 1 (at least the early 80s), usually based on the empirics, and real doubts as to the quality of the models. (So for example, he would be equally skeptical of the various...
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In the last few days, several students have come to me wondering what it means to have a theory. In general, a theory is an articulated conception of the world, or of a particular part of the world, that is...
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I keep discovering that the facts of life are not everywhere understood: 1. Show up five minutes early. For all classes, all meetings, etc. 2. Always ask, Do I owe them? or Do they owe me? You always want to...
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Someone wrote me:, with my comments in caps: I am in the data collection phase of the dissertation and I am having trouble coaxing the data that I need from the public agencies that supposedly should have it. NOT...
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I received the following: "As a student who works full-time as an executive, most often we find that time is our most precious commodity... as such, it becomes overwhelming to learn to navigate through the school's various libraries to conduct...
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A Note i received "I'm not trying to make excuses, and I have no idea what our mentoring quality is objectively. All I know is that the assistant professor job when you get it is lonely, there are precious few...
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