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<blockquote data-quote="Acmite" data-source="post: 613865" data-attributes="member: 183"><p><strong>[PLAIN]Re: Re: [OT] Graduate School[/PLAIN]</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Definitely. From the grad students I know in Arts, I've learned that grad degrees in Arts and Science are vastly different. My experience has been very different from Chun-tzu.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree about the scheduling thing. It's definitely something I struggled with at the beginning. I think (in science) being ABD (as Chun-tzu put it) is the ideal place to be. It's where I am, and it's where I want to be. In fact, I have to TA this semester, and although it's the undergrad course in my area of expertise (one of them anyway, I've done the other once twice already), I can't help but think my time would be better spent working on my thesis 23/7 (I subtracted 7 hours for gaming<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).</p><p></p><p>Research in science seems to require quite a bit of focus (I don't mean to imply other disciplines don't), especially if lab work is involved. Many of the courses you might take will not have a direct relation to your area of study, so serve to distract, not enhance. I'd imagine Chun-tzu was able to pull something relevant to his dissertation from all his classes. Many poeple in science aren't so lucky. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>Now I really need to sleep. Please excuse the ubiquitous spelling mistakes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Acmite, post: 613865, member: 183"] [b][PLAIN]Re: Re: [OT] Graduate School[/PLAIN][/b] Definitely. From the grad students I know in Arts, I've learned that grad degrees in Arts and Science are vastly different. My experience has been very different from Chun-tzu. I agree about the scheduling thing. It's definitely something I struggled with at the beginning. I think (in science) being ABD (as Chun-tzu put it) is the ideal place to be. It's where I am, and it's where I want to be. In fact, I have to TA this semester, and although it's the undergrad course in my area of expertise (one of them anyway, I've done the other once twice already), I can't help but think my time would be better spent working on my thesis 23/7 (I subtracted 7 hours for gaming:) ). Research in science seems to require quite a bit of focus (I don't mean to imply other disciplines don't), especially if lab work is involved. Many of the courses you might take will not have a direct relation to your area of study, so serve to distract, not enhance. I'd imagine Chun-tzu was able to pull something relevant to his dissertation from all his classes. Many poeple in science aren't so lucky. :( Now I really need to sleep. Please excuse the ubiquitous spelling mistakes. [/QUOTE]
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