🧵 Grad School
Anonymous at Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:47:21 UTC No. 16294048
I'm about to start my masters studying marine biology. My thesis advisor focuses on larval physiology, and he accepted me even though I know barely anything about physiology. I'm just reading his published papers over and over again until they start making sense, is this a good strategy? I'm worried that I'm in over my head.
Also, do you guys have any tips for getting through grad school? I'm not looking forward to being a TA, I hate teaching
Anonymous at Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:36:57 UTC No. 16294346
>>16294048
Look up concepts that he is trying to explain that you don't fully understand. Methods and data are all mostly the same across the board, so I wouldn't spend too much time on that. Yeah, just grind it out when you need to and blow off steam when you need to. Me and 4 of my buddies would get together on Friday at the end of the time and rehearse together as a band. We eventually started playing shows at dive bars in our city. Booze, girls, drugs and thermochemistry was the life.
Anonymous at Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:17:31 UTC No. 16294925
>>16294346
Thank you anon. Google has unironically been a lot of help, I have no idea how people did this in the days before the internet.
And Google scholar is great too.
An issue I have is that I have no community here, it's a whole new city so I have no friends, but hopefully I can make friends with my fellow students in the lab
Anonymous at Thu, 25 Jul 2024 20:06:37 UTC No. 16296405
Ask questions about anything you don't understand, even if you think it makes you look stupid.
Don't just go "uh huh" and pretend to understand anything
Anonymous at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 08:24:02 UTC No. 16297069
>marine biology
What a waste of fucking time and energy. Enjoy your 70k a year job lmao.
Anonymous at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:11:57 UTC No. 16297092
>>16294048
OP, sounds like you have impostor syndrome.
The cure for that is realizing that unfortunately nobody understands what the fuck they are doing.