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- From: sheppard@escher.cs.jhu.edu (John Sheppard)
- Subject: Re: How to pick a grad school
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.131456.16309@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:14:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.191640.19300@urbana.mcd.mot.com> jdooley@urbana.mcd.mot.com (John Dooley) writes:
- >ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU (Matthew L. Ginsberg) writes:
- >
- >>Yes,
- >>graduate school will teach you (hopefully) to organize your time,
- >>teach, write papers and present them. But those are all things that
- >>you can, if need be, learn elsewhere (albeit perhaps with some
- >>difficulty). What graduate school teaches you that you can't learn
- >>anywhere else is to be a scientist. And the person you learn that
- >>from, more than anyone else, is your faculty advisor.
- >
- >> Matt Ginsberg
- >
-
- Focus on the phrase, "...that you can't learn anywhere else..."
- This is pure baloney! Yes graduate schools teach you about research.
- Yes, they teach you to be a scientist. But those who think graduate
- school is the ONLY place to learn to be a scientist are kidding themselves.
- IMHO it is the BEST place to learn to be a scientist, but many scientists
- have been trained through mentorships and apprenticeships in industry.
- So let's drop the academic arrogance and move on.
-
- John Sheppard
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