Comments on: Week in Review: Halloween Edition http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/10/week-in-review-hallowee-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=week-in-review-hallowee-edition From InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Amy http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/10/week-in-review-hallowee-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-2067 Amy Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:16:05 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=1584#comment-2067 4. - I got this exact same advice when I was a brand spanking new graduate student, meeting with professors before choosing a research advisor. One of my potential advisors (who I incidentally did not choose) told me that to some extent, any research project I chose would eventually become my baby, simply because of the time and effort put in. What would really drive my motivation and happiness would be my relationship with my advisor. Too bad that at that time, I was straight out of undergrad and entirely too green and un-self-aware to know just what kind of relationship with my advisor I wanted, or needed. It's one of the main reasons I wish I'd gone to work in industry for a couple of years before graduate school. Woulda coulda shoulda. 4. – I got this exact same advice when I was a brand spanking new graduate student, meeting with professors before choosing a research advisor. One of my potential advisors (who I incidentally did not choose) told me that to some extent, any research project I chose would eventually become my baby, simply because of the time and effort put in. What would really drive my motivation and happiness would be my relationship with my advisor.

Too bad that at that time, I was straight out of undergrad and entirely too green and un-self-aware to know just what kind of relationship with my advisor I wanted, or needed. It’s one of the main reasons I wish I’d gone to work in industry for a couple of years before graduate school. Woulda coulda shoulda.

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