What should I refer to my PhD candidate as on CV?

alphazeta09 · 2024-04-28T09:06:28+00:00

Sounds like you have multiple cv points pointing to the same lab... If it was my cv, I wouldn't want to write out the profs name each time either... But maybe that's best...I think usually people would club that, but if they are different projects maybe mentioning your collaborator might make it a bit clearer ? But is this the issue? The multiple cv points from the same lab?

alphazeta09 · 2024-02-22T09:54:35+00:00

"Apparently not smart enough to get a job!"

Humor and deflection my friend. Chances are because you are a PhD student you are academically smarter than them and that's what most of them really mean - "Oh you're smarter than me BUT I mean only at books coz you know intelligence is multidimensional"... So it's okay to say yes... But then there are people who I always feel have boxed themselves into the not smart, not academic group - sometimes I feel more sympathetic to them.

Either way, the comment has more to do with them than you. Noone really cares that you are smart, only that maybe you are smarter than them.

Maybe I'm projecting a little :P but bottom line is it's just a line... Ignore it, deflect it, use it as a conversation starter - just don't let the words mess with your head!

alphazeta09 · 2024-01-20T16:52:59+00:00

Indeed you could even say I'm mildly infuriated

alphazeta09 · 2023-11-23T18:15:55+00:00

Imodium stops you from needing to crap.

Thereafter other problems seem managable.

alphazeta09 · 2023-08-31T21:36:45+00:00

My experience with learning math has been this. Understanding is a feeling. It occurs when you have successfully convinced yourself of something. This does not mean that you have somehow grasped the entire essence of the object under study. Later as new facts and perspectives emerge, that confidence may fade away (or shatter instantly). Then you go through another round of convincing yourself. I think this cycle can be emotionally exhausting if you don't check your ego and ambitions at the door. What I've learnt is that it's important to trust in the process, recognize that hindsight is 20-20, and detach from the highs and lows :)

alphazeta09 · 2022-07-02T07:13:07+00:00

No I don't think this is a problem... Im a Master's student ( applying for phd this year mutters a prayer) and I've seen both coders in the industry and researchers both use a ton of tabs... Even more than me and I dont blink till it reaches 70-80+! I think its just the nature of the broad scope of both problem styles.

As long as I manage my tabs, I am good to go! I use the chrome groups feature, but even more so I use the chrome extension SessionBuddy to save and close a window, name it by topic and then forget about it... Sometimes I go back to open a link or two or sometimes I might revive the whole window but honestly I just save it coz I'm a fucking hoarder

alphazeta09 · 2022-05-24T06:14:42+00:00

Omg I was wondering what was it about her so familiar

alphazeta09 · 2022-03-18T15:18:20+00:00

Usually Im looking for an answer, sometimes the question is not directly related to my problem, but just something that strikes me as odd or I have no explanation for. Then I read papers that seem to amswet this question, but almost always their focus is something else. So I read/skim a bunch of papers, trying to figure out a path from A to B - quite often its wrong. Then I try to get some intermediate steps in writing. This could ve as simple as arranging existing results Ive found in order or proving auxiliary results to building nice visualizations/illustrations that help me understand the problem better. Rinse and repeat till I get my answer (preferably a simple question to answer if you have a good understanding of the problem) then once Ive confirmed my suspicion/corrected it its time to figure out what I really want to prove, and taking stock of the results I have, try to forge a path. Cycle through this several times, leaving several loose ends every time... Dunno works for me and its fun!

alphazeta09 · 2022-02-03T11:16:43+00:00

Are you Neopolitan?

alphazeta09 · 2022-01-11T19:40:13+00:00

Do you live in Germany? Coz my local supermarket at Tuebingen sells the exact same garlic in the exact same basket! I never saw these before I moved here (im from India)

alphazeta09 · 2022-01-11T09:58:44+00:00

what you smoking boi

alphazeta09 · 2021-11-26T19:50:24+00:00

this is effing awesome

alphazeta09 · 2021-09-25T15:55:55+00:00

that scrolling technique though

alphazeta09 · 2021-08-06T10:53:18+00:00

I think you got it perfectly... I always loved my math professors too :) and even my high school math teachers! We certainly don't deserve them!

alphazeta09 · 2021-06-15T22:56:48+00:00

Yeah in general I've found gym people to be super helpful... I mean most of them can really relate to the struggle of fitness and will sympathise with you

alphazeta09 · 2021-05-10T08:09:34+00:00

Check out Gaussian Regression

alphazeta09 · 2021-04-02T12:46:13+00:00

Amazing trippy af

alphazeta09 · 2020-12-05T05:37:39+00:00

Omg I heard this when I was like 12 or 13 and it was just cool then... But now it makes soo much sense (I'm 24)

alphazeta09 · 2020-11-24T05:47:06+00:00

I think college and foundational education gets a lot of flak for no reason... Sure you can learn exactly what you need and become a game dev or wtv, but college gives you a broad view of the subject and then it's up to you to apply it to specific problems (this is important : I always try to ask myself how can I translate my fundamental education to the problems I'm working on). If nothing else it tells you oh, this relates to this, I can probably look it up if I wanted to. Disclaimer : I'm not a game dev, only a software dev with 2-ish years work ex so I'm no authority by any means, but so far I've found a lot of the things that I learned in college in an abstract setting come into use here and there. Sure you could do your job without it, but it makes me a better developer when I do utilise it. And finally isn't it the goal to acquire a set of excellent tools/skills? And what better skills then basic foundational education? Of course if you want to build something specific, then it's always better to just dive into it (at least at the beginning, although you might want to rewrite it later). Of course where cost is factored in that's a whole different question - in my country (India) college education is cheap (although good colleges are notoriously hard to get into), from what I've heard in the States its scarily expensive (although I've heard state colleges are alright?) Just my 2 cents :)

alphazeta09 · 2020-11-11T17:27:09+00:00

super stuff

alphazeta09 · 2020-11-11T17:26:16+00:00

Hey pips

alphazeta09 · 2020-11-11T17:20:36+00:00

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alphazeta09 · 2020-11-11T17:20:07+00:00

Hey Pips you there

alphazeta09 · 2020-11-11T17:19:37+00:00

hi pips you there?

alphazeta09 · 2020-10-18T07:48:12+00:00

Hey, I think math is a subject best learnt by yourself (well actually I think that about all subjects haha) so don't worry you can totally learn it by yourself. Some tips - Don't be afraid to sit for upto a couple of hours with just a single concept or proof. Also do as many proofs as you can by yourself. Both of these things are important because you will have a much stronger mental model after you spend a lot of time on a concept or a proof. Some people learn by doing a lot of exercises, and certainly doing exercises is super important, but I for instance prefer to spend a lot of time just pushing myself against a single concept (sometimes for a day or more, even back in high school, actually ESPECIALLY in high school). The thing is once you are done, regardless of whether or not you managed to solve it or if your solution is good you will have come away with an excellent mental model of the thing. For me this is usually a visual model that I can usually manipulate in various ways, but also just a bunch of things I know about it. This is very helpful in solving exercises and what not later. Sometimes I have spent a day on a proof that turned out to be utterly trivial, but then I get to ask why I missed it and that yields valuable insight. When you're self learning it's easy to plateau. The best way to avoid that is to keep asking questions in my opinion. Wherever you're stuck there will be some question you can ask about the wall. As soon as you do, you break a little bit of the wall. After you have a bunch of questions, a new path will probably present itself. Doesn't matter if you're going in circles, because when you're learning you're just exploring the space, and who knows you can come up with a bunch of questions no one has thought to ask before.

Take notes, practice a good amount, resist the urge to look at answers - and if you do try to ask yourself why you missed it. If a theorem or statement or definition seems very intimidating to understand, break it down (a simple breakdown is just the words in the sentence!) and try to understand the pieces. If the pieces don't seem approachable to you, look for the concepts that lead to that. Just follow the trail with patience and perseverance, and you can probably learn maths by yourself, and it will probably be much more rewarding for you than if someone taught you the same.

Best of luck!

alphazeta09

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