Gomen dear, but I glad you keep it and put it somewhere. I think perhaps one day, maybe when your older it should be something you share or put out and publish somewhere that graduate students can see. Because you cover some important concepts on both ends of the spectrum. And in case (though I doubt will happen) some of us forget when we make it that far, this can serve as a good reminder too.
Perhaps that is what some of those professors need.
But we know historically how that happens.... You get ahead, become famous, popular, gain power to forget you once had none. And when you forget, you also forget not to put someone else in the same position you were in. Worse yet, you forget how to sympathize. :(
I think it's common across all stressful fields. Fard was saying how the doctors always pick on med students and seem to exhibit specific memory loss about what it was like to be a student. I don't think it's any different here. Of course, that's assuming that they started from the point we have. I don't believe that many professors started out with *nothing*. Many of them (and many current grad students as well) either come from a long line of well-educated families or had some connections even before they started college. Those people will never understand what it's like to not have mentors to guide and support us when we need it most. And many of them also live by the sink or swim mentality, where it's all up to you to survive...
As for me, I think that's all a load of bull. How can you expect the next generation of scientists to exceed you if you won't teach them what you know? Of course, maybe they also just think that not everyone is meant to make it...and they've decided that I'm part of that fraction.
Well I agree I don't believe in that crap with the sink or swim. Yes to some extent it is up to us to put forth the effort. But at the same time where do you draw the line. I think it is too far and too much to expect us to suddenly just "get it
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Gomen dear, but I glad you keep it and put it somewhere. I think perhaps one day, maybe when your older it should be something you share or put out and publish somewhere that graduate students can see. Because you cover some important concepts on both ends of the spectrum. And in case (though I doubt will happen) some of us forget when we make it that far, this can serve as a good reminder too.
Perhaps that is what some of those professors need.
But we know historically how that happens.... You get ahead, become famous, popular, gain power to forget you once had none. And when you forget, you also forget not to put someone else in the same position you were in. Worse yet, you forget how to sympathize. :(
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As for me, I think that's all a load of bull. How can you expect the next generation of scientists to exceed you if you won't teach them what you know? Of course, maybe they also just think that not everyone is meant to make it...and they've decided that I'm part of that fraction.
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