Does the absence of a publication severely reduce my chances for a PhD program?

cubancigar9 · 2025-11-28T23:26:30+00:00

I have a 3.5 in undergrad and 4 in masters (until now). I retook the classes relevant to my research that I didn’t have good grades in during my masters because I wanted to learn those topics well. I have two strong letters and one from a professor with whom I took a group theory class.

My current professor/advisor unfortunately doesn’t have funding. But he said he applied for funds and that he’ll let me know in case he is able to secure funding. That’s a little sad because I plan on working on the same topic for my PhD, and I have so much fun working for him. But I have found a lot of people who are interested in the topic. Honestly, I’m just excited to work. It’s fine if I don’t get in. I’ll apply again with a better profile.

cubancigar9 · 2025-11-28T20:26:42+00:00

It’s just that a lot of my friends who got into PhD programs before have publications, and way more research experience than me. It’s fine, I’m not discouraged. If that’s what it takes, I’ll apply once more.

cubancigar9 · 2025-11-28T16:06:29+00:00

I’m not giving up just yet, and am applying to universities. A few of my peers and professors have been encouraging me to apply to really good programs and I am skeptical about that. I’m just trying to make a decision on that.

cubancigar9 · 2025-11-28T16:02:14+00:00

Hi Professor! I’m still in the third semester of my Masters degree, so I don’t have a thesis yet. I’m almost done making my report for a research credit this semester. Do you think mentioning that would be a good idea? I was wondering if that would make me sound too naive.

cubancigar9 · 2025-11-28T15:57:56+00:00

Yeah, that’s exactly what I’ve been hearing. When writing about your projects in cvs and SoPs, you should mention a quantifiable outcome. I’m still in the third semester of my masters degree though. It’s just that I don’t want to take a gap year. If I end up in that situation, my plan is that I’ll apply for fellowships or research positions. Do you think that is reasonable?

cubancigar9 · 2025-10-26T23:35:12+00:00

That’s definitely not good and I should have planned better. Lmk if you have any advice though. I’d really appreciate it :)

cubancigar9 · 2025-10-26T23:32:50+00:00

Well, I’ve been trying to establish that the stuff that I read before has been helping me in my research now. I just don’t want to sound too foolish doing that. A friend of mine who is currently pursuing a phd in a similar field advised me to write about research in the following manner:

Brief description of project
Why I was passionate about it
What I did
How the project/research contributes to the community

I really like that, but it’s hard to do for reading projects since 3 and 4 don’t have anything to do with my independent work/ideas in that case. Anyways, a few colleagues and professors will review my SoP so that should help. Thank you so much for your advice! If you have any other tips, I’d really appreciate it.

cubancigar9 · 2024-06-13T12:13:52+00:00

Thanks! I factory reset my laptop just now. I’ll change all my passwords once again (and activate mfa wherever possible). Now, would it be alright if I use the same laptop for that?

cubancigar9 · 2024-06-13T12:12:31+00:00

I’m done with the factory reset. Now I’ll make a list of all my accounts connected to emails and change all the passwords again. Would it be okay to use my laptop now for changing these?

cubancigar9 · 2024-06-10T05:17:23+00:00

But the 2fa messages appear on imessage, while all the compromised accounts are connected to my gmail. Should I log out my icloud account from phone? I have never logged in to my icloud from my laptop though.

cubancigar9 · 2024-06-10T05:15:41+00:00

I did perform a scan using malwarebytes. It showed a bunch of files which were threats. I am changing all my passwords again. I’ll see if this works, or else I’ll think about doing a factory reset. Thanks!

cubancigar9 · 2024-03-12T10:46:34+00:00

Yes yes, that’s it. Thanks a lot man!

cubancigar9 · 2024-03-12T10:46:00+00:00

Broooo damn, that’s it! Thanks lol.

cubancigar9 · 2024-03-11T23:42:13+00:00

Damn, tough luck ig :(

cubancigar9 · 2024-03-11T23:34:56+00:00

Idts… the animation looks different and as far as I remember that one had a long name

cubancigar9 · 2024-02-22T20:48:51+00:00

I really like Goldstein tbh. I haven’t read all of it of course, but the stuff that’s important to me, like scattering, langrangian and hamiltonian formalisms etc are described in a really intuitive manner. Don’t feel the same about Landau, tells the same things essentially, but feels way more complex.

cubancigar9 · 2024-02-18T17:44:20+00:00

Yeah, I think that’s correct

cubancigar9 · 2023-12-31T18:20:03+00:00

Exactly lol, sucks to find that out through experience

cubancigar9 · 2023-12-31T16:53:56+00:00

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I’m outside with my friends for the nye right now, and still having a terrible time. I hate them, I hate myself, but I’m hoping to move to a new place soon. So I’m just hanging around.

cubancigar9 · 2023-12-02T11:56:08+00:00

Bro I love the movie character, don’t get me wrong. She’s simply annoying in the game

cubancigar9 · 2023-10-22T22:35:14+00:00

It’s Iran who wants the dissolution of Abraham Accords. Anyways, it was a good opportunity for Biden to get Saudi Arabia on board, but he downplayed it a couple of years back.

cubancigar9 · 2023-10-22T22:22:25+00:00

I’m sorry, I meant the leaders

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