"If you're not having fun at grad school, you're doing something wrong" - Nobel Laureate Craig Mello
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Nobel Laureate Craig Mello answers the question "What advice do you have for graduate students?", with tips on what to do when you get stuck.
Craig Mello’s collaborative work with Dr Andrew Fire led to the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi), for which they shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
This video was filmed as part of the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative. Through the Initiative, Nobel Laureates give career advice for young scientists, explain their discoveries and give insights into life after the Nobel Prize.
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Grad school used to be fun for me but after my papers got rejected too many times, it's quite discourage to keep going.
I am abroad in Asia for my MSc degree and I have trouble adapting to a new country. I constantly feel that the education I paid for is not up to standard, thus driving me to learn more on my own. This might be because I studied the physical sciences in a prestigious college. I tend to always look for the fundamentals first. Am I having fun? What do I enjoy really? The advice given in this video is of utmost importance to me. I find myself complaining a lot these days about education, but I am fully aware there is no perfect graduate school. Through travelling, I believe I already know more about what I want in life. As a result, I should have no regrets as I pursue further studies for my PhD.
I love this video. As a prior student in undergraduate and graduate school, I realized that when my professors returned my papers several times that they were complimenting me. Most professors have full classes and more students than time to grade and provide feedback. Any professor who does not pass a student through and provides feedback is investing in their students because they want them to succeed! As a professor myself, teaching in graduate school I have the same passion as the professors who took an interest in my had. I realize now it was because I valued their feedback and wanted to improve my skills. People do these jobs because they love them. No one goes through a Doctorial program just for something to do with their time. LOL Providing feedback and watching a student grow in their writing skills, knowledge of the area and even developing their area of interest is exciting. Although the success is their own it also makes me proud too!
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a good supervisor should let a student think for themselves and find their own path. That is how Paul Dirac was treated on his PhD. And it's how Dirac treated his phd students.
You are doing something wrong-you are listening to your advisor.
Thanks a lot for this video and awesome piece of advice. Something which I am going through now and just started exploring new directions. Have to self-ignite that curiosity and this video gave me a further boost!!! ❤❤❤
He's right but also misleading. It takes immense work for many grad students to get past the hardships of grad school and invite playfulness. I know I haven't figured it out yet.
Wait, I am not getting paid to be in grad school, I work full-time and part-time. Am I doing it wrong?
What about the advisor? "If you are not having fun, you're doing something wrong or your advisor is shit." People believe PhD is about having the freedom to explore one's own ideas. But no! Due to the publication pressure, especially, if you are in a non-tenured professor's lab, you are expected to work on the professor's ideas. I've seen many of them micromanaging students which makes PhD a hell for the shitty wage it pays.
Well I guess he forgot the case, really really common, where you have to deal with an abusive advisor while trying to cope with a research project. In that case it is absolutely not the fault of the student if he's struggling...
A PhD is a fucking difficult struggle. It has fun moments, sure, interesting things you read about or create, but "fun" is eating pizza and smoking a spliff with your best mates on a rooftop in madrid, it is not spending 8 hours a day staring at a screen writing a paper only 3 people will read. Playing a video game is fun, playing football is fun. Doing research is mostly extremely difficult with hints of "fun" interesting content. It is misleading of a Nobel prize winner to suggest the whole process is fun. It is not.
It’s so naive to be judgmental that people who are not having fun in their grad school, they are doing things wrong. There are lots of possible reasons to get drained in grad school. People in the position of power and negotiation cannot understand.
Who get paid to be in grad school!?
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school is tho ave stress then when you have so much stress you have diabetes
Unless you're unlucky, and you're smarter than your mediocre supervisor(s).