As a PhD, what I wish grad students knew [Grad School Advice]
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- In this video I share with you what I wish grad students new from the perspective of someone who has a PhD.
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0:00 - winging it
1:39 - paper lies
3:30 - direction
5:03 - no one cares about your exam results
6:48 - data hoarding
8:16 - arseholes
9:53 - wrapping up
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I love this. I've been a professor for over 25 years and am on the other side of 60 years old, and the other day I caught myself thinking "in another year or two I might have this academic thing figured out." I think it's OK to say that we have it figured out well enough to keep doing it, even if we don't have all the answers.
That bit about undergrad and grades being meaningless is really nice to hear right now. I'm in the middle of applying to grad school for my masters and I really didn't get my act together in my undergrad until the last year so my GPA was not exactly stellar. I've grown a lot as a person in the 5 years since I've graduated with my bachelor's and I think my work shows it, but I am just terrified that my grades won't let me get in the door with a 3.007 GPA.
Hi Andy,
I have been following your videos now for almost two years, and I wanted to say a big thank you for all the time you spent on keeping graduate students informed about what is really going on in academia.
Now, I should admit I would not have been able to stay in my PhD program without the help I received by watching your fantastic videos. Thank you again and please keep making these videos! 👏😅🙏
Your beard is superb.
Thanks Dr. Stapleton, the section on arseholes popped up at a really good time for me 😀I spent my evening internalizing someone's comments and stumbled across this video. Almost to the end of my first semester!
As a prof, this advice was fantastic. Academia is a beautiful, strange, and at times horrific thing that MS and PhD students need to intuit oft times from scratch. Y'all gives yourselves credit for the wonderful things you do. Keep at it!
Back at it with another great video! Been enjoying the consistent uploads these days 😊 You’re exactly right about professors and PhDs just winging it and having no idea what we are doing haha. You figure it out with time, but it’s what I wish I knew when starting my PhD! This is something I try to remember when imposter syndrome starts creeping up on me. Everyone’s just showing up each day and doing their best!
Your videos are great, Andy! Thanks for enlightening us!
All your episodes are so informative and inspiring dear Andy sir! I'm literally getting obsessed about your channel!
Loved your insights into the peer review process. It totally does not weed out all the rubbish
A friend of mine worked in a reseachgroup of a hospital and he had one such assholes as head researcher, the dude basically exploited grads and undergrads by taking credit for all the work they did and presenting it as his own. At one point he decided to use some data that a grad was working on for a paper of his own without letting anyone know,. What he failed to check was the security level that was put on that data for various reasons, mostly privacy regulations. so long story short the data management team eventually found an very major data leak that was traced back to the asshole. Turned out he had "unknowingly" been leaking data for years undermining a substanclial amount of research that had been done. Which turned into a massive internal investigation. The dude was eventually fired for a number of reasons including privacy leaks, forgery of research data and a number of copyright and IP issues. safe to say he will not be working in hospitals for a good while. what goes around, comes around. xd
that point about papers is rly important. even in math
Thanks for this Andy 🙏
Dr. Stapleton, you really are a God send! You’re one of the only channels that consistently can remotivate me! Even as a humanities major, you do an excellent job of offering advice that applies to all.
Thank you for the vid 👍
Who else noticed the notes from the last seminar on the whiteboard? 😁
Thanks Andy...
Dr Stapleton, please keep maintaining quality academic-related contents. I'm much obliged for your endeavors. Your channel is my primary sources for my enrolment process.
Great advice!
Thank You for this video
Greta video! In a sense, this feeling of never ending chaos is what I experience in business as well. I guess academia or beyond, we are all bombed with more information and expectations than we can possibly handle.
Thank you!
You’re SOOOO RIGHT ALL THE TIME 😍😍😍
What a great charisma you have!✨
Dr. Stapleton, I have watched many of your videos and would like to thank you for your dedication to help us better prepare and succeed in graduate school. Having said that, I would like to hear your thoughts about the balance between intellectual enrichment and technical training in graduate school, especially PhD students.
5:03 that made me chuckle. My undergrad was in informatics and I'm doing my PhD program in social psychology. Couldn't be more real.
Thank u so much for all the tips and guidance. Very helpful. I wonder if you have any tips about some tools that we can use on copying tables or diagrams in writing master thesis. I only use snipping tool, is their any other better tool i can use to grab and paste some figures to my research. Appreciate your help
Thank you! I'm having panic attacks by the minute!!!!
Can you please discuss the state of academia and disability issues. E.g. Neurodivergent, ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorders, (Yes, use the term Asperger's Syndrome specifically please, we still exist and acknowledging this is crucial to combating discrimination in academia and in the Autism community. I'd really appreciate it. )
Thank you for your content.
I believe many postgraduate students are on the autism spectrum. I myself some years ago was described more than once as a 'high functioning autistic'. Additionally I don't accept we are discriminated against at this level.
@@francishunt562 I'm so glad you just decided that because you never experienced it. And are self-diagnosed means that you have the privilege to dismiss and devalue the very real discrimination I am facing as an individual with Asperger's Syndrome.
Thank you so very much for your patronage.
Absolutely incredulous that you would even do that. The discrimination against us as individuals who have Asperger's Syndrome is *VERY * real. You just demonstrated the highest level of privilege and patronizing nonsense to dismiss and devalue my experiences as a disabled woman.
The amount of unkindness you have knowingly demonstrated speaks volumes about the arrogance and lack of awareness and understanding of these issues.
@@DSScully You're welcome. If someone is on a PhD or masters, then (hopefully), they are on that course on merit. Doesn't matter if you have a disability or not. A person shouldn't get a place through race, religion, or indeed disability. They get on the course because they are good. Stop making excuses and deal with it.
@@francishunt562 you are incredibly arrogant and disrespectful. Knock it off.
Deligitimizing other people's experiences simply because you have never experienced is the height of arrogant.
If your attitude is prevalent in academia, no doubt that is why you think that ADA violations are acceptable. They're not. They are illegal. This includes in higher education.
Am I surprised at your attitude. Not at all. It's quite typical. Treating people with disabilities, as you are expressing here, like shit, is a demonstration of your character. Shame on you.
Especially if you consider yourself a professional. "Deal with it " and start acting like a professional.
I like listening to this man. 🤣
I love this video
Actually good video 👍im in Biochemistry undergrade 2year and I hope that one day I can scape from latino América to Sweden or Germany and start doing PhD things
Hey! Im a Masters student and am doing my research in Immunology . I'm applying to PhD programs right now and it feels really forbidding, especially as an international student.
I was feeling down about my project because I don't feel confident that I'll be able to give it direction past what my supervisor thinks I should do and would be a good idea. I want to conduct research that is my own but am scared that I won't be able to bear the responsibility for the failures that will inevitably come from it.
The advice in this video hasn't fully sunken in yet, but I hope when it does it feel more comfortable taking the reigns with my project.
And though I know you said to be skeptical of everything, but I'll trust that its good advice for my Master's project!
Grad school sounds like everyday life. TS IR also sounds like this there just seems like a light but what's actually there is the unknown
I was going for my PhD after my Masters and this video made feel better about it because I was scared to go further.
So true. Got my undergrad awhile back. Worked a couple of years. Originally didn't think I was smart enough for grad school so I went to get another BA @ college (what USA calls community college) instead of university after 2 terms was like I can't deal with college BA rn. My brain wasn't stimulated (I think it's mainly due go my ADHD side) but during this time I was like I know what I'm doing in a sense but also it's been awhile so uhhh what?.
But fall 2022 going into grad school part time I'm like what am I doing again??
So relatable.
I don't remember which video you mentioned about reasons why phd students don't finish.... trust me but literally half, if not more, of the points you made have crossed my mind after one term lol and I'm doing well after that one course last term. I'm still interested in what I'm studying but it's also tiring and working full time while going to school ain't fun
Here is a mental tip dealing with A holes, I picked up at military school. A rather masculine and competitive environment. If people are being an A hole towards you. Ask yourself this: Does your opposition (doesnt need to be direct, can even be indirect for prestige etc etc) like you? Because if they do, then you might be doing something wrong. If you think like that, you will expect some people to be A holes and just take it as a sign you are doing well rather than "internalize it". Of course, if I am a Nato soldier, having the Russian military "love me" would be an indicator of something wrong, but the same could be said about that A hole that was very nice to you,... because you shared your work with him in a manner that allowed him to take everything just before the finish line and claim all the glory while sidelining you. Or the A hole that hates you, calls you insults all the time, because you are hot on hes tail, he knows it and tries to psych you out or is just desperate and scared.
Note: That this tip in regards to people that are both successful and A holes. Not the village idiot that is just an A hole because he dosent know any better.
09:15 is what you should NOT do. Because just listen to what he is really saying here. Pity the one that will take all the glory. Hes only doing it because,... he has personal problems, he gets all the glory though. No, being an "A hole" is often a "office politics" tactic and by hes own words, it works. The just "pity them" cope is just a self rationalization. Not saying one should be picking "side quest" fights in context of people doing something that doesnt affect you at all, but one shouldnt take the long road ether because an A hole is "blocking your way".
As a PhD student researching a topic, you stand a chance to win a Nobel prize, it is just that you have to tread super extreme careful because your research supervisor is lurking nearby to pounce on you, in an instant, to steal your research work and ideas. He can steal your work, dispose of you with his toxicity and pass on your work to his favourite PhD student or a PostDoc.
I get recommended this video literally after a month getting accepted into grad school lol. I have to work two jobs and go full time, so I’ll try my best not to be grumpy all the time 🎉
Quick decision 🎉
There will always be things you don't know. The biggest block to real knowledge is the Ego.
Look for the solution to that.
Hi Andy,
did you change the camera?
No one has ever asked me what school(s) I went too. They only care where I work now.
Andy, how do you suggest I can distinguish between an asshole and a critic with a sharp tongue? Especially early on when I am uncertain of the value of my work and try to 'keep an open mind' and be responsive to criticism?
I wish graduate students knew how to answer completely "From where does the industry come from?". Try answer this completely and on the spot under 10 seconds.
How's the light looking?
It's "flying but the seat of your pants" not seam". The idea is you don't have instruments you only can feel the aircraft to know what it's doing.
But he sounded like he knew what he was talking about
Interesting....sounds like an internship I had.
In the middle of my second masters… yes, we are all lost…😂
But isn't it wonderful when it comes together ?
@@francishunt562 True. Done in another 18 months, so I am only 25% finished….
Looking at my Masters Degree, this makes so much sense!
I’m thinking about a second masters, after finishing this MBA, What is it like?
@@DariusJones Let me put this in context - if successful I will have the second masters 31 years after my first one. The restart was challenging, in particular a very hard dive back into discrete mathematics. On the good side, now we have google and CZcams - state of the art during my first one was a notebook and pen ;) Is it worth it? Yes. AI has come a long way since my last degree, I find it all really interesting.
So academia is less like a hippie camp and more like a concentration camp... Got it! :D /jk
I love this guy! What a legend!
I am wondering why on earth you made your beard so long. Girls are gonna afraid. Anyways, I suppose you looks even better without beard.
Thank you 😢
Ima be honest, I didn't watch a single second of this, I just saw that beard and wanted to say: congrats, that sht is glorious.