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Great ideas I must admit about <a href="http://www.mastersthesiswriting.com" rel="nofollow">writing a dissertation</a> and advisors.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01356453350168807486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-54778623238377451262007-01-14T20:42:00.000-05:002007-01-14T20:42:00.000-05:00Excellent post, indeed, TR.Excellent post, indeed, TR.lucyrainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18157045295240648152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-9438688548193797102007-01-11T14:15:00.000-05:002007-01-11T14:15:00.000-05:00As always, TR, you're too kind in linking me to yo...As always, TR, you're too kind in linking me to your own lovely and insightful posts.<br /><br />I think that you, the CP, and Tony Grafton as quite right about how difficult it is to tell, at the outset, which grad students are going to go the distance--my own advisor (and really, this comment isn't meant to be about her again!) once gave me, in the middle of a meeting, the entirely unsolicited opinion that I was "not a superstar." <br /><br />I was then in my third or fourth year and had barely begun my dissertation, but I was more pissed off than crushed by this assessment: what an absurd way of evaluating <i>anyone</i>, but especially graduate students! Who IS a superstar, in any way that matters, at that stage? And what a bad bet to think you can tell, and to throw your lot in with them. (My <br />advisor then added, as if helpfully, "No one in your entire class IS, really.")<br /><br />I'm not very advanced in the profession yet, but even I have seen startling shifts: the kid who came in with the big ol' Mellon fellowship couldn't decide on a dissertation topic, and dropped out. And that sad sack guy, whose wife was the one we were all betting on to pull him along after her? Wound up publishing some impressive articles while still working on his Ph.D. and got an amazing job while the wife left academia altogether. I look forward to seeing how my grad school colleagues' careers shake out over an even longer period of time.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-5856529739418816542007-01-10T21:03:00.000-05:002007-01-10T21:03:00.000-05:00Tenured Radical strikes again with another terrifi...Tenured Radical strikes again with another terrific post, and many thanks to the Combat Philosopher for amplification.<br /><br />Evaluating graduate students is really, really hard. In History--I don't know it works in other disciplines--there's an evil tendency to be very conservative nowadays, no doubt in part because more and more programs are trying to fund all students, and cutting numbers to achieve that. If spaces are fewer, the temptation grows to fill them all with products of elite undergrad programs who have already done elaborate research-based senior theses, and not to take chances on those who come from outside that world. AHA statistics seem to confirm that this is happening, that elite doctoral programs are taking fewer students from non-elite colleges. A bad thing. But how to push against it--especially when there are only a few fellowship offers and it's hard to argue against people who have done archival research in Moscow or Sao Paolo at age 20? Suggestions welcome.<br /><br />A couple of years later, we know the students and they know us. But it's still really hard to know what they'll be like when they are finishing their dissertations. Again and again I have seen someone who looked like a "fixer upper" in generals--someone so shy as to be unable to speak audibly or look examiners whom he or she has known for two years in the face--turn into a terrific scholar and teacher, two or three years down the line. How then to draw the distinction between those who should, in humanity, be encouraged to cut their losses with an MA and those who should, in every way, be encouraged and nurtured (or at least left alone in library and classroom until they mysteriously find their own voices, as many do)? <br />It's never simple.<br /><br />The intractable complexity of relations between supervisors and students begins--though it doesn't end--in these problems of assessment on the teacher's part, as well as in the problems of adjustment and learning that students encounter.<br /><br />Thanks so much, as always.anthony graftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05588520143876853373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-82011214830145617622007-01-10T17:24:00.000-05:002007-01-10T17:24:00.000-05:00I'm a former foster child and current child advoca...I'm a former foster child and current child advocate: www.sunshinegirlonarainyday.com<br /><br />I wanted to invite you to share your insights on my blog sometime: http://sunshinegirlonarainyday.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Also, regarding intimacy and attachment issues, I have created a blog and am planning a presentation on this subject, and would greatly appreciate your insights: http://fostercareattachment.blogspot.com/<br /><br />LisaLisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944993180509479994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-7643152169879362182007-01-10T04:09:00.000-05:002007-01-10T04:09:00.000-05:00Food for thought as I teeter on the brink of becom...Food for thought as I teeter on the brink of becoming post-doc. I have always taken my cue from my supervisor concerning the nature of our relationship, probably because she is notoriously reliable in this regard. What is nerve-wracking is that I feel like I am perpetually upping the ante - recommendation letters? publish the diss in the series you edit? <br /><br />Maybe I'm a bit myopic but I can't see what's in it for her beyond the speedbump contribution my diss makes to her larger research agendaParishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10724364909872924908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-20643653172692675042007-01-10T00:43:00.000-05:002007-01-10T00:43:00.000-05:00T-R,
What an excellent post. I particularly enjoye...T-R,<br />What an excellent post. I particularly enjoyed the 'fixer upper' line. It is a place I have known.<br /><br />However, it raises an interesting point. I for a while sat on a grad admissions committee. Many of the people on the committee would get all excited about the applicants with 4.0 GPAs, whilst I seldom found them very interesting. My reasoning was that if a person has never had a bad semester, run into a professor they just cannot stand, or had to take a class they detest, then they must lack both attitude and passion. The students with slightly less than perfect GPAs, but who seemed to have a personality, some life, always seemd like better bets to me.<br /><br />As I am not at one of the worlds 'finest schools', my assessment has been justified. The 4.0s went to fancy places. The students we got who fell into my 'interesting' catagory have done very well for themselves. However, I also have a personal reason why I believe that this is quite an important insight.<br /><br />As an undergrad, I entered to study a subject I found easy, but boring. I got sick and dropped out. A little later I was able to get back in due to a rather wise man who had noticed that there was a rather low correlation between admission grades and final graduation grades. He got permission to admit a couple of 'drop outs' on a hunch. It was a good hunch. Two of the drop outs graduated at the top of their class. We both now have PhDs and are academically employed. This was how I ended up with a philosophy degree.<br /><br />When I was in grad school, I had to take a course on a subject that I could not stand, because they were the only hours that were available. I did badly. In fact, at one point my GPA was so dubious that my RA/TA funding was at issue. However, as I had started publishing a little bit, they let me slide.<br /><br />Fairly recently, our grad dean came across a study that actually vindicated the idea that 'fixer upper' students may be good bets. According to the study, the 4.0 students rather lack coping skills. They have never experienced a failure and should one happen (as is quite likely in any program with high standards), these are the people who will drop out. Goodness knows how they would handle a rejection letter from a journal, when a referee is totally off the wall.<br /><br />On the opposite side, I know people who have degrees from fancy schools and who have always maintained high GPAs, but are utter failures as academics -- they teach badly, do not publish, etc. So, I do not think that it is a surprise that a 'fixer upper' such as yourself should do well.<br /><br />Of course, the bulk of your post had to do with advisors. I had a couple also, but at the same time. One is still wonderful, but does not follow my work too closely. The other did me the huge favour of writing a paper, attempting to refute me in a paper of mine. It is really nice to have a paper dedicated to how wrong one is (it is great for citations). What makes it even better is that the refutation paper contained a serious methodological flaw. My response should be out any day now.<br /><br />The one thing that I did learn about advisors, which I think reenforces a couple of your points, is that it is more important to work with a person you can get a long with, than any thing else. At least, this is what I tell my students.<br /><br />The CPThe Combat Philosopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06533397644493139591noreply@blogger.com