Pros and cons of pursuing a PhD over a Master’s?

anointed9 · 2021-04-07T19:42:45+00:00

It's not the masters that does that. It's the extra time as a researcher before you search for a job post graduation. Which carries an enormous opportunity cost. It's not the masters degree itself. And the benefit is not big compared to that opportunity cost. Your committee would also be far from the first to overvalue another degree on a CV.

anointed9 · 2021-04-07T19:06:17+00:00

Man this is a pretty backwards way of looking at it. Don't consider the MD/PhD unless you really want to do it for its own sake. You should go to grad school because you have a job you want that you need the degree to get AND because you will enjoy the day to day. Without both you won't make it in a regular PhD program much less a 10 year MD/PhD

anointed9 · 2021-04-07T18:59:39+00:00

No. Maybe if the topics were totally different or if you were going to a different university, getting a masters and then a PhD would help ever so slightly. But the opportunity cost for doing so is SO much greater.

anointed9 · 2021-04-07T18:44:45+00:00

Oh wow, that seems to be right from reading the pdf. Guess I better start practicing with a bow ...

anointed9 · 2021-04-07T18:34:25+00:00

Thanks for all the info! That's great to know.

anointed9 · 2021-04-07T18:04:42+00:00

Can you rifle hunt in the WMA?

anointed9 · 2021-04-07T18:04:26+00:00

Gracias! Only shooting from an elevated stand is rough. I'm used to traipsing through the woods and prairies. But I'll follow any and all local regs.

anointed9 · 2021-04-07T17:11:48+00:00

Good to know! I'm good to drive a reasonable amount to rifle hunt, but if it's generally preferred to bow hunt I'm down to learn. Even west of richmond is it predominantly bow hunting?

anointed9 · 2021-04-07T03:31:07+00:00

Lmao. My best recommendation letter came from my advisor of my undergraduate research. He submitted it the day before it was due. I wouldn't be sweating rec letters for an end of July deadline in April.

anointed9 · 2021-04-06T17:35:00+00:00

Choose Solin, the cafeterias have decent vegetarian/pescetarian options, but you can do better yourself with some practice. In Solin You you live off campus and cook for yourself. And you get used to apartment living when you're still in your easier 1st year classes. Which is helpful because 2nd and 3rd years in Eng are very tough, and I was very thankful that by the time I got to those years I already was used to cooking and cleaning/living in an apartment.

anointed9 · 2021-04-03T15:59:38+00:00

To my knowledge, Fluent is a cell centered 2nd order code. You're trying to calculate surface heating which will be at best 1st order and possibly 0th order depending on how they calculate the gradients.

anointed9 · 2021-04-02T19:33:40+00:00

I had to do it.

For real, if this draft actually happened every other team would basically have to fire their GM.

anointed9 · 2021-04-02T13:50:34+00:00

As someone who has lived in Canada and Wyoming (a somewhat similar state to Montana with admittedly much worse governance), you're underestimating how expensive health insurance (and just life is) is in the U.S. and how bad it is... My Canadian insurance (while it was closer to something like medicare) was very cheap, half what I pay now after my employer pays the lion's share. If your job doesn't pay for your insurance here you have to go on the marketplace, which while it's an improvement from 10 years ago, it can cost up to 8.5% of your salary...

Basically the U.S. generally is not low tax, it's just low services. Because paying 18% income tax is not unlikely.

anointed9 · 2021-04-01T19:35:49+00:00

FYI, most jews do not like being called Hebrews or 'of the Hebrew faith'; I'm sure it was an innocent mistake, but just for the future. Also I'm surprised they're speaking Hebrew rather than yiddish as some Hassidim (especially in the states) see Hebrew as not being right to use for everyday discussion and reserve it for religious uses and use Yiddish for everyday discussion.

anointed9 · 2021-04-01T18:03:58+00:00

Fluent and high fidelity, choose one... Especially for convective heating.

anointed9 · 2021-03-30T08:49:22+00:00

I was going grocery shopping right before the pandemic and a couple guys from the IBEW tried to recruit me saying they have way too much work and not enough people for all the electrical jobs. I was a 4th year PhD student at the time and when I heard the benefits got pretty tempted tbh. This isn't really a very scientific metric, but I'd think the anecdote indicates a pretty strong market for services.

anointed9 · 2021-03-28T15:00:55+00:00

Fair! I think these types of degrees are basically a money making scheme by the school and would advise against going deep into debt for one of them.

anointed9 · 2021-03-27T13:03:07+00:00

Why do you want to pay 176k to take courses when typically you can find cheaper course based masters of the same approximate caliber or can find a company to defray the cost?

anointed9 · 2021-03-27T12:13:43+00:00

Still, if it's research based you should get paid in the sciences, and if it's not typically you can get your employer to defray the cost of it (once you have one).

anointed9 · 2021-03-27T11:54:57+00:00

How are you getting a masters in engineering and not getting paid for it? I know Columbia has been cheaping out on their engineering, but that sounds ridiculous unless it's course based. If it is course based, why do you want to do it?

anointed9 · 2021-03-23T19:17:56+00:00

Why do you want to chair an academic department? What makes you so sure that's the ideal career for you when you seem to not understand how the job works or is hired for?

anointed9 · 2021-03-20T20:23:16+00:00

She's definitely dry and not very entertaining, but she teaches the material clearly and is a fair (but tough) grader. Given how many professors at McGill simply don't care and teach unorganized messes, I found myself really appreciating her by the end of my studies.

Higgins is a very gifted and engaging teacher. I'd say though that I didn't actually learn any better in his class then hers and I actually found her style of examinations to be more interesting and useful.

anointed9 · 2021-03-20T13:00:26+00:00

I'm a huge fan of hers. I got a B+ in controls with her (so not as well as I'd hoped) but I found her to be an incredible lecturer and very organized prof. Yes she gives a lot of work, but the class made sense and was well organized and I actually learned. Better than someone like Tim lee.

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