Unexpected Advice for Beginning Graduate Students in Astrophysics
Abstract
My experience is that beginning graduate students in astrophysics have unrealistic views of how to negotiate the complexities of graduate school and to prepare themselves for a professional career in astrophysics or some other field. This chapter describes my unexpected advice to students beginning with why they should not plan to write a thesis. Other advice concerns how to find and work with a research supervisor, writing and other skills needed for their research, and the need to be creative and when necessary controversial.
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- Pub Date:
- August 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012opsa.book..143L