Sunday, April 19, 2015

What is the Hardest Part of Getting a PhD?

One answer here.

My answer: I struggled quite a bit with qualifying exams and do not want to discount that. As for dissertating, the hardest was part was not knowing what exactly I should choose to learn/explore. Which techniques should I focus on? Which problems should I fix? So many potential paths...so easy to go down a useless path for months before learning it wasn't really helpful (at least in the short run).

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