User knzhou

168 votes

Is "flowery language" frowned upon in engineering and STEM related research?

answered Sep 6, 2020 at 4:52

114 votes

How to deal with professors who don't follow the text

answered Apr 21, 2021 at 4:04

65 votes

What's an efficient way to learn simple formulas by heart without understanding?

answered Feb 14, 2018 at 11:01

60 votes

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Do you keep your study notes publicly available?

answered Apr 27, 2020 at 6:06

57 votes

How can I make the introduction of a paper more "scientific" and less "popular"?

answered Sep 26, 2018 at 12:37

25 votes

Does being a top-tier university always imply unhealthy graduate student environments?

answered Jul 31, 2018 at 19:48

18 votes

Is Academia a dying field?

answered Aug 1, 2018 at 22:39

17 votes

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Statement of Purpose, should one say "I did X ..." or "My advisor and I did X .. "?

answered Sep 26, 2018 at 9:13

8 votes

Is it ever appropriate to cold-email post-docs that have graduate from your program?

answered Aug 6, 2018 at 19:01

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The utility of graduate math study for theoretical physics

answered Jul 12, 2018 at 10:36

5 votes

Is repeating a mathematical formula or equation in a scientific paper considered bad writing?

answered Mar 10, 2021 at 16:46

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Undergraduate 3rd year - Advice needed Physics Major

answered Nov 5, 2020 at 19:05