How to choose your topic

  • As many already know, studying for the physics GRE and getting accepted into a graduate program is not the final hurdle in your physics career.
  • There are many issues current physics graduate students face such as studying for their qualifier, deciding upon a field of research, choosing an advisor, being an effective teaching assistant, trying to have a social life, navigating department politics, dealing with stress, utilizing financial aid, etc.

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HappyQuark
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How to choose your topic

Post by HappyQuark » Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:29 pm

I stumbled on this and thought it was a nice read. It's on a Molecular Cell publication but it discusses the topic of choosing scientific problems in a way that is applicable to most of the sciences

Link: http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/abst ... 09)00641-8

PDF: http://download.cell.com/molecular-cell ... diate=true

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Re: How to choose your topic

Post by enthree » Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:19 am

not a bad read

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Re: How to choose your topic

Post by negru » Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:54 am

Yeah. I liked the part where the link didn't work.

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Re: How to choose your topic

Post by HappyQuark » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:14 pm

negru wrote:Yeah. I liked the part where the link didn't work.
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