Actually, it's a pretty good blog.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/20..._what_s_it_like_to_get_a_ph_d_in_science.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/20..._what_s_it_like_to_get_a_ph_d_in_science.html
Considering a PhD in science? READ THIS (link)....
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Interesting. As someone that works with PhDs from MIT and Stanford, I agree with this statement completely...
"A bit of advice for those of you at big-name institutions: You are good, you are working with some of the best in the field, and you should be proud of that. However, at every second-tier and third-tier university, there is someone there who is as good or better and smarter than you are. The first truly scary genius I ever met did not come from Harvard, Stanford, or MIT. She came from a third-tier school in North Dakota."
"A bit of advice for those of you at big-name institutions: You are good, you are working with some of the best in the field, and you should be proud of that. However, at every second-tier and third-tier university, there is someone there who is as good or better and smarter than you are. The first truly scary genius I ever met did not come from Harvard, Stanford, or MIT. She came from a third-tier school in North Dakota."
like every profession, being good at 'school' does not mean you will be good in the real work force. Things like work ethic, common sense, communication, luck, etc....are just as, if not more important. Typically smart people make out fine, but the difference in where they end up in an orginization and success and pay is not based on intelligence alone.
Like this woman who started at the Berks Campus.
LINK: Danielle Bassett: McArthur Fellow and Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation, Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania
