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About to write my PhD thesis and I don't know the basics and fundamentals. I am feeling unworthy of the PhD title. What should I do?

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(How) can you teach a subject effectively for which you are a skeptic without biasing students?

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Failing PhD, how to go forward? [on hold]

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Will the PhD degree be retracted if the thesis is found to be not novel?

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Letter of support for promotion to full professor from an “unusual” student

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Can/should one put a copyright notice on one's CV or resume? Why/why not? [closed]

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My current PI is telling me that I am a very shy person and he is really pissed off, what I should do?

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It seems my advisor doesn't trust me, but why?

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Can one really 'lose' old bad grades and get a fresh start?

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Does a prestigious internship (at google) help for PhD programs in Computer Science?

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Negotiating 1-year delay to my Assistant Professor Offer

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PhD students reviewing papers

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What are the main reasons postdoc applicants get rejected?

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How to make sense of a 2019 paper published in 2016 journal issue?

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