Timeline for Do you not belong in a PhD program if you don't live and breathe your field of study?
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| Dec 31, 2014 at 14:29 | comment | added | Oswald Veblen | I agree with this, but there is an important counterpoint. Perhaps the most important attribute for finishing a PhD is persistence. Earning a PhD is an enormous amount of work, and everyone knows students who "had the ability" but who didn't put in enough effort to finish their degree. So, in aeismail's comment, we should not be too quick to pass over the first sentence to get to the second. | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 4:58 | comment | added | Matthew Tran | I agree with your answer. The majority of the tenured faculty in my math department are married and have interests outside of research. | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 4:32 | history | answered | ff524 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |