{"id":2186,"date":"2008-01-28T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/what-i-learned-in-my-phd\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T19:01:00","slug":"what-i-learned-in-my-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/what-i-learned-in-my-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learned in my PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more I do this PhD thing, the more I learn.  Don&#8217;t confuse this with being trained in your field; that stuff you learn in a post-doc.  PhD learning is about learning how to get through a PhD.  Unfortunately, I&#8217;m not proving to be the best learner in this area&#8230; I&#8217;m too determined to actually gain something from my experience and catching on a little too late.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s lesson: there is a reason why PhD students do not do independent research.  PhD students are better off piggy-backing something on a Professor&#8217;s work agenda because that is THE ONLY WAY TO GET ANY F&amp;%$*!NG attention.<\/p>\n<p>If I weren&#8217;t okay with just charging ahead on my own with no direction whatsoever, or practiced at getting feedback and advice from other areas (read: other universities, departments, persons outside my chair), then nothing in my degree program would ever happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I do this PhD thing, the more I learn. Don&#8217;t confuse this with being trained in your field; that stuff you learn in a post-doc. PhD learning is about learning how to get through a PhD. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m not proving to be the best learner in this area&#8230; I&#8217;m too determined to actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}