I passed my PhD oral qualifying last month. It has been two years in PhD, and I have...?

Answer: It's time to learn an important life lesson.​ Let's assume your progre.​.​.​ Long's Digest Top Stories For You I passed my PhD oral qualifying last month. It has been two years in PhD, and I have no substantial work publications. What should I do? Barry Rountree, Computer Scientist, LLNL Written Feb 15, 2016 It's time to learn an important life lesson. Let's assume your progress is much worse than average. What the hell are you going to do differently? You're still six months ...  Read More » Do soldiers actually find it hard to sleep in a real bed after a deployment of sleeping on the floor/camp beds? Roland Bartetzko, former German Army Paratrooper, Croatian Defense Council, Kosovo Liberation Army Written Dec 13 A good soldier must be able to sleep anytime and anywhere, whether it's on the hard-frozen ground or in a soft bed. Anyway, it's not that soldiers on the battlefield are sle...  Read More » Is it acceptable to say that I have derived about 400 new formulas of mathematics, and I'm just 16 years old? Valdis Klētnieks, BS Mathematics & Physics, Clarkson University (1984) Written Oct 6 Is it acceptable to say that I have derived about 400 new formulas of mathematics, and I'm just 16 years old? (Note that I tackled college calculus at 11, and by 16, I was a...  Read More » Is working in Silicon Valley overrated? Brett Fox, lives in Silicon Valley Written Apr 5 I remember how blown away I was when I moved to the Silicon Valley from Los Angeles years ago. I would tell My LA friends, "It's Mecca. "You can quit your job at one company,...  Read More » What do CS majors at the bottom half of the curve do? Bruce R. Miller, High-functioning idiot Written May 20 I was in the bottom tenth of the curve, with a 2.2 GPA. I blew off classes and studied whatever I wanted to. Then I got a job doing maintenance on a public domain TCP/IP st...  Read More » My PhD advisor does not want to publish my research. I have finished my PhD a few years ago. Can I publish my research without his name? Neil Menon, PhD Nanoscience and Technology Updated Jan 9, 2018 I'll keep this really simple — give credit where credit is due. Ethically, anyone who has contributed to giving your manuscript its present shape through time, effort, or re...  Read More » Why is learning calculus consider as the hardest part of mathematics especially by the university students? Sam Adams, Dedicated Purveyor of Sarcasm at Miskatonic University (1960-present) Written Aug 9 Calculus is not the hardest part of mathematics by any means. Fact is, if you ask any fourth year math major they'll probably tell you that first year calculus is probably ...  Read More » Why don't engineers unionize? Marco Fuxa, Born recidivist with an entrepreneurial problem. Updated Nov 11 Engineers do not unionize because they know what everybody in the sales department, accounting and executive suite already know, namely that 20% of the people do 80% of the work. ...  Read More » What is something normal people don't know looking into special forces? Mark Stinson, 14 years with Special Forces. Commo-18E, Team Sergeant 18-Z. Written Dec 13 First we are not supermen. The facts are: We have above average intelligence. We are extremely fit, most of the men I worked with in Special Forces were not buffed but rather...  Read More » Why don't some PhD students have a publication when they graduate? What causes this situation during their 3-5 years of study? Gene Spafford, Prof for 33 years at Purdue, head of Infosec grad program. Written Jan 2 There are many reasons. I will give two. In my own case, I had two changes of PhD advisors after I started my degree. Two of them were assistant professors, and the last two...  Read More »   Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive this type of email in the future, please unsubscribe.http://www.quora.com/