一个大学教授在他网页上关于PhD的文章# WaterWorld - 未名水世界
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除了最后的happy ending很多人并没有实现，前面的内容都同意。
Frustrations and joys of research
Research can be very rewarding and very frustrating. Most students describe
graduate school as a
roller-coaster with tremendous highs and tremendous lows.
Frustrations can come from not being able to solve a problem that you’re
working on, or from
having someone else beat you to the solution. Frustrations can come from
loneliness. However,
probably the biggest frustration is the realization that you’re not as
great as you thought you were.
Here’s a very typical story:
Student X comes from famous school Y in country Z, where he was ranked 5th
out of 4 over hundreds of thousands of students. He was also ranked #1 in
his class for the year
in terms of GPA. The student comes to graduate school expecting to be the
best and
starts working very hard on research. By the end of his first or second year
, the student
realizes that he has not yet published any papers. His friends and family
from home start
asking what’s wrong with him. He feels frustrated and ashamed. He blames
his advisor,
he blames his department, he blames his school. Finally, he grows up and
accepts the
fact that maybe he’s not the best, but he can still do well if he works
hard. He starts
listening better, works harder, and ends up quite successful.
Frustrations and joys of research
Research can be very rewarding and very frustrating. Most students describe
graduate school as a
roller-coaster with tremendous highs and tremendous lows.
Frustrations can come from not being able to solve a problem that you’re
working on, or from
having someone else beat you to the solution. Frustrations can come from
loneliness. However,
probably the biggest frustration is the realization that you’re not as
great as you thought you were.
Here’s a very typical story:
Student X comes from famous school Y in country Z, where he was ranked 5th
out of 4 over hundreds of thousands of students. He was also ranked #1 in
his class for the year
in terms of GPA. The student comes to graduate school expecting to be the
best and
starts working very hard on research. By the end of his first or second year
, the student
realizes that he has not yet published any papers. His friends and family
from home start
asking what’s wrong with him. He feels frustrated and ashamed. He blames
his advisor,
he blames his department, he blames his school. Finally, he grows up and
accepts the
fact that maybe he’s not the best, but he can still do well if he works
hard. He starts
listening better, works harder, and ends up quite successful.