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Just wondering if anyone could shed further light on this. Specifically concerning the adage that who your adviser was in grad school is what matters the most (after your own research!) concerning placement afterwards. Also, does anyone know in general if a school's good engineering reputation...

I agree, it sounds like burn out. Which means you need to take as long of a break as you need/can take until your excitement comes back. I'm still an undergrad, so the burnout I've experienced surely doesn't compare to yours. But what has helped me is to do nothing for a while. Play games. Watch...

Thank you for the responses! I am glad to hear that those are the things that matter most, Andy. However, I keep hearing people say that one thing that matters a great deal (more than your institution) is who your advisor is. I take that to mean at least in part that the name your advisor has...

My question is whether it is a bad idea to be a physics graduate student with an EE advisor. I ask this because I'm interested in nanophysics at Carnegie Mellon University. On the physics website on the nanophysics page they have listed 6 EE professors and 5 physics professors. It seems likely...

As of a few days ago, I'm a published undergrad! Believe it or not, there are two more research papers that will have my name on them as a co-author. And I still have two years left! This is one benefit of going to a university without a graduate program in physics (no grad students to...

I don't disagree with you, but I wasn't talking about driving trucks. I was referring to the jobs where you'll be told "you're overqualified." Then if you just don't put that you have a phd on your resume, they'll want to know why you did nothing for 6 years. The PhD opens up opportunities...

He's right, don't worry about the money. You won't get rich off of graduate school pay or post-doc pay, but if you manage your money wisely you won't starve, either. That's what I've gathered, anyways. In college, just focus on your grades and trying to get some undergraduate research...

It seems odd to me that people would put themselves through at least 4 years of constant hard work (right after 4 years of undergrad!) if the phd work was boring. Hopefully the majority of people doing it find the work they are doing interesting and satisfying. lol. I'll file that in the...

I hope you aren't referring to me. :( I'm not convinced the system is broken *or* working, just that some healthy debate about it can only make it better.

You make a good point. My counter point would be to ask why anyone who worked their *** off 60 hours per week for 4-6 years to join a scientific community would be ostracized by that same community for having an outrageous idea? I'm not saying we should all smoke dope and hold hands, but I also...

I think you've greatly misunderstood the intent of the people posting in this thread.

I think that's definitely worth talking about. I see your point. I don't know if that really is the case, but your logic is sound. If it takes a large amount of time for the way someone thinks to change in order to learn a field (and I do think it takes a long time), then how much more must a...

Did I misunderstand you or are you seriously saying that all a physicist in the defense industry can do is design h-bombs?

Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure how one would gather information to come to a conclusion on that, or if a physicist or aspiring physicist would be qualified to do so. In any case, I'll keep it on topic and only talking about the PhD "society" or environment: I do think that when you've spent so...

Thanks for your response. That's the kind of information I was ignorant of, without which things do not make sense. I still wonder, though, if the length and difficulty of phd's in places like America and Germany is necessary. What if UK students are at a disadvantage not because the quality of...