PhDs from the Faculty's Perspective

Jason Hong:

One of Blog@CACM's new bloggers, Philip Guo, has been doing a great job in discussing grad school from the PhD student's perspective (here and here). I figured it would be good to offer an complementary perspective of graduate school, distilling what I've learned over the past years in advising and working with PhD students.

Break Out of the Undergraduate Mentality
A common challenge for a lot of new PhD students is that they still have an "undergraduate mentality," where they believe that grades still matter (they do, but only marginally so), and that there will always be someone there to tell you what to do.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 8, 2012 2:18 AM
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