Posted by: Sleepless October 31, 2009
How Much Should a PhD candidate Know?
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While education makes you extremely proficient in your particular field of study plus makes you confident enough to stand tall with your peers, it still cant develop your social skills or improve your work-life balance or any of the abstract skills one attains when growing up. For that matter, I have seen an uneducated person talking more wise than a person who has developed a parallel runtime system for scalable parallel systems.

It is YOU who has to grow interests and do something about it, besides academics. I have come to realize that hobbies constantly change depending upon where you are living. Make friends, Go out (Hike/Row/Walk/Climb/Watch) , i cant think of any less things to do if you ask me.

Feeling inferior is another thing you mentioned that caught my attention. Why would you feel inferior with someone you are incomparable with? Everyone is different and everyone has their own ideas. You probably think their ideas are better. NO! They simply speak their mind out, you dont. If it is common sense, you can equally speak your mind and see the difference. That being said, why would you worry about something that you probably dont want to get interested in. I would suggest, focus on your strengths rather than worrying about these. May be you'll find the world change around you. And of course Sir, you'd have my Salute after you get that Dr. Tag.  : )

 


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