Working on your thesis: how to get started and how to keep it going?

9.8号去听了学校CDTL举办的一场session，由学院IS的一个A/P主讲的，听了受到一些启发。整理笔记，写成日志。

 

1、The first step of academic: choose supervisor

     ask senior student to recommend:

    1) two supervisors to choose (can be listed as candidate prof)

    2) two supervisors not to choose( exclude from candidate list)

    

2、The relationship between prof and phd (from the perspective of prof)

                 helpful

    phd  --------------> prof

            <--------------

                 not own

 

3、Understand the eco-system of lab

     Why  sb works better than others？

 

4、Manage your supervisor

     Prof may have  no time to ask your progress. 

     Attract prof's attention to  your research.

 

5、Work with seniors/peers well

     Looking for potential collabrators in the future.

     Your behaviors are always being watched by others.

 

6、Clear course before starting research

     Prof hopes you doing well in the courses.

     To be the boss of own time.

     Mimic style of one prof.

     Design your own big picture( now---->10 years later)  .

 

7、English is vital

     Paper & Presentation

 

8、Commercial value( industry<---lab)

     Challenge the exist resistance

     Ambition:

     1)short: paper (prof)

     2)long: commercial value

 

9、Network

     Make connection besides lab

 

10、5 years of phd life--->practice run

     Exam yourself: why research is difficult?

 

11、Good teacher: care about students

       The distribution of time:

                                           Assistant prof               Associate Prof/Prof

       Research(higherst)         70%                               50%

       Teaching                         30%                               30%

       Service                            0                                    20%

 

      TA ：practise teaching skills

       If your English is not so good:

       1) sincerity

       2) give more material to student

 

12、Attend seminar

      Prepare 2 questions  to impress others

 

13、Difference between good scholar and researcher

       Scholar: influence life

       Researcher: paper

 

14、What you should achieve in the following 5 years

       1)Discover your way of doing research

       2)Summrize experience and duplicate success

       3)Differentiate yourself

 

15、Frist job is vital

       HKU ----->back NUS

       CityU--/-->