看得哇一声哭出来……这绝对就是我老板看我时那种看弱智的眼神啊😭😭😭
“I think that Dawson expected Peter and me to have gotten publishable results much faster, so to him, we either seemed incompetent or not serious enough about our jobs. As a professor at a top-tier university, it's a sad reality that all of Dawson's students are probably less competent than he was as a Ph.D. student. The explanation is simple: Only about 1 out of every 75 Ph.D. students from a top-tier university has what it takes to become a professor at a school like Stanford (or maybe 1 out of every 200 Ph.D. students from a regular university). Unsurprisingly, neither Peter nor I was of that caliber. If Dawson had worked with a younger clone of himself, then progress would have been a lot faster!”
“Even though we put in a solid effort during those two months, Peter and I felt like we had really let Dawson down on a project he cared deeply about. Peter was so discouraged that he switched advisors and then later dropped out of the Ph.D. program altogether. With my teammate gone, I grew more disillusioned and decided to quit Klee for the final time.”
“A tenured professor can survive several years' worth of failures, but a Ph.D. student's fledgling career—and psychological health—will likely be ruined by such a chain of disappointments.”
“For those few months, I morphed into an antisocial grump who shunned all distraction and became deeply immersed in my craft. All I thought about was computer code; I could barely speak in coherent English sentences except during my weekly progress meetings with Margo. Even though I appeared and acted subhuman (i.e., an unshaven disheveled mess), my emotional state was blissful. I was programming and debugging for over ten hours per day, but my mind was quite relaxed since my technical skills were well-calibrated for the challenges I faced.”
“So why would anyone spend six or more years doing a Ph.D.? Everyone has different motivations, but one possible answer is that a Ph.D. program provides a safe environment for certain types of people to push themselves far beyond their mental limits and then emerge stronger as a result. For example, my six years of Ph.D. training have made me wiser, savvier, grittier, and more steely, focused, creative, eloquent, perceptive, and professionally effective than I was as a fresh college graduate.”
“Here is an imperfect analogy: Why would anyone spend years training to excel in a sport such as the Ironman Triathlon—a grueling race consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run—when they aren't going to become professional athletes? In short, this experience pushes people far beyond their physical limits and enables them to emerge stronger as a result. In some ways, doing a Ph.D. is the intellectual equivalent of intense athletic training.”
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