Questions tagged [academic-life]
Questions related to academic culture, academic communities, and the coexistence of "life" and "academia."
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Is there a book equivalent to « Good work if you can get: How to succeed in academia » but for European / UK academia?
I found Jason Brennan’s book very useful when applying to my PhD and planning long term about my academic career.
However I am doing my PhD in Europe and although I’d like to explore US academia at ...
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How to deal with career anxiety and manage to remain concentrated on the matter in hand?
I am just over 30 years and about to finish my PhD. I will obtain my PhD from an EU country, and I must obtain residence permit to keep staying in EU.
My thesis is almost a staple thesis which ...
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Improving work relationship with my advisor
I'm new to the research scene. I asked my advisor questions about the suggestions he gave in a couple of meetings. From then on, he insulted me a few times whenever he has to provide feedback on my ...
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How to increase the replay value of presentation karaoke?
In the context of an event for academics up to the postdoc stage, we organisers are considering hold a presentation karaoke (a.k.a. Powerpoint karaoke) for fun. The general idea is that you have to ...
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FOMO in PhD specialization
I recently graduated from my Master's program in theoretical physics. Throughout the program I did most of my coursework in high energy physics and did my thesis in the same. However, I also did ...
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Articles about different types of colleges and universities, from math faculty perspective
I'm looking for an article, web site, book chapter, whatever, that I can share with some math graduate students so that they can read and learn a little about some of the different types of colleges ...
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Taking an applied internship postponing the end of the PhD
I'm a PhD student in Europe, currently in my 3rd year of pure mathematics. It was supposed to be the final year of my studies before finding a position either in industry or in academy. However, the ...
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Is it ok to upload encrypted pdf file on arXiv?
Is it ok to upload a pdf file of my paper with "edit with permission of author-password encryption" on arXiv? Is it good? And also please answer, can your paper show "submitted" ...
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Visualizing the list of all active academics for a given topic
For a long time I have been interested in visualizing the network of all active academics of a certain discipline worldwide (e.g. computer science, mathematics, or by a set of keywords).
I imagine a ...
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How to decide about the university to stay for the future after facing some troubles
In our country working in a state university is regarded as a priviledge. Even when we consider the degrees offered, people accept the state university degrees more. Usually first preference is given ...
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How do I politely say that I am not applying to my alma mater anymore?
I am a PhD student in Y university in United States and I finished my MS in X university before my PhD. All professors who provided my recommendation letters work for X. Lately, I have been feeling ...
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How should I spend my time as a pre-doctoral fellow?
I have written to my potential PhD supervisor and he has replied that he would be happy to supervise me on a project. I have not applied to the university yet and I think the process will take several ...
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Nobel laureates and where they currently work
There are a lot of lists of Nobel laureates by institution available online. However I cannot find any that list laureates by where they are currently working. Does such a list exist?
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How to get approach in teaching a subject you are fluent in but not included in your degree
I am a Mathematics graduate and have done a post-graduate degree too, with a research component involving a mathematical application in cryptography.
I'm currently working as a temporary lecturer in ...
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Part time visiting researcher in UK while doing postdoc in Germany
Currently working as a scientific employee in Germany and have an opportunity to work as a visiting researcher in the UK(top university). Is it possible to work at a place that considers the working ...
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Should I switch majors? How will this look on grad school application?
At the school I study at there are several majors for life sciences. I am currently in a program called Life science - origin of diseases specialization. This program is very similar to the general ...
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How can I request for a pdf of a book on academia.edu?
How can I request for a new document or pdf on academia.edu.Will academia find it for me?
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Affect of not finishing degree within 3 years due to a disease
I am currently pursuing a degree in bsc. Hons is of 3 years in an esteemed university in india. I am at the final year now. Through the two year my grade was of around 7 cgpa. But at the last semester ...
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