Timeline for I may have to write a bad recommendation for an underperforming student researcher in the Fall. How to avoid this without being exploitative?
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| Aug 28, 2021 at 19:41 | vote | accept | etal | ||
| Mar 9, 2021 at 4:25 | answer | added | John Smith | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 20:03 | comment | added | Elizabeth Henning | You waited five months to tell him that you weren't happy with his progress? Why? | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 16:38 | comment | added | cheersmate | I see. If you're required to teach them the "basics of ML", maybe the student didn't have sufficient background knowledge to begin with. | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 15:34 | comment | added | etal | @cheersmate I agree it was a mistake. This was only during the Summer when I thought he was working full time and I was teaching him the basics of ML, but in hindsight it was a mistake. Now we're only meeting 1-2x per week, as with any other of my mentees. | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 15:32 | comment | added | etal | @FourierFlux w.r.t. papers vs grades, it probably differs between universities and fields. The first instruction I got for grading PhD applicants was "Don't look at grades", the second about rec letters, the third was "Almost always require at least a paper submission". On the other point, if I just wanted to benefit from students work, I would just supervise 10+ undegrads from the US university or exploit extremely motivated international students from countries with immigration caps that send me emails about interning at our lab. Unfortunately, both have been done before in my department... | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 15:24 | history | edited | etal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
forgot to add learning benefits
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| Mar 8, 2021 at 14:56 | comment | added | Michael Richardson | I'm not sure what "exploitative" is referencing in the question or body. | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 7:34 | comment | added | cheersmate | You meet 5x per week? When is the student supposed to get work done? | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 3:04 | history | edited | etal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
a bit more precise
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| Mar 8, 2021 at 0:05 | comment | added | heretoinfinity | I have met people who freeze because they either don't find the project interesting or they have too many questions that they fear they can't ask or a combination of both. | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 22:10 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Without pressuring him too much into doing work, why would you not just explain to him what you don't like about how he's doing what, and what he needs to change? | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 19:23 | comment | added | FourierFlux | Sounds like you're wanting to benefit from his work more than anything else. Idk about "top" but I entered into PhD without any research. Grades usually matter more than a paper which didn't really do anything significant. | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 17:56 | answer | added | Stilez | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 17:56 | answer | added | user104446 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 17:40 | answer | added | JAmes | timeline score: 20 | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 14:10 | answer | added | Mike | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 12:37 | comment | added | Kimball | One thing to consider is the pandemic affects different people in different ways. | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1368531900621594624 | ||
| Mar 7, 2021 at 8:13 | answer | added | Dan Romik | timeline score: 56 | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 7:12 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 7, 2021 at 6:34 | answer | added | Kevin Miller | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 5:32 | history | edited | cag51♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
more descriptive title
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| Mar 7, 2021 at 3:56 | answer | added | cag51♦ | timeline score: 55 | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 0:28 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | Re: "I will have to write him a letter of recommendation in the Fall" -- Why? Consensus around here seems to be never do that, just decline to write the letter instead. E.g.: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/137391/… | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 0:24 | answer | added | user135405 | timeline score: 31 | |
| Mar 6, 2021 at 23:54 | comment | added | user133933 | How sure are you that he's not working with someone else and stringing you along as a backup plan? | |
| Mar 6, 2021 at 23:11 | history | asked | etal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |