For a PhD, would you select a young or an old famous supervisor?

Answer: This is a wonderful question! It's very important to be thinking about.​.​.​ Long's Digest Top Stories For You For a PhD, would you select a young or an old famous supervisor? Jaime Potter, Ph.D. Organizational Behavior & Management, The Wharton School (2019) Written Nov 28, 2017 This is a wonderful question! It's very important to be thinking about. In my mind, there are two competing considerations at play here: how well known your advisor is vs. ...  Read More » Is it true that Space Shuttle Challenger's crew compartment had extremely disturbing contents when the US Navy finally recovered it from the ocean? Paul K. Russell, MS Electrical Engineering & Applied Mathematics, Santa Clara University (1990) Written Aug 4 I was working with NASA and was at a meeting at Johnson Space Center in the 1987. I met an engineer who took me on a tour of the Shuttle simulator. While we were there she ...  Read More » When you get a paper to review, do you go over the references? Barry Rountree, Computer Scientist, LLNL Written Sep 28 First I read the abstract. Then I read the references. I know my field well enough that I know the papers you ought to have cited, but I'm also looking for new work I might ...  Read More » How was a day like in your initial years of pursuing a PhD? Samuel O. Alfred, Researches on the Physics behind cooking as a pastime Written Oct 11 6:15AM: Time to wake up! Never enough sleep but I am left with no choice than to stand up. 6:20AM - 6:45AM : Prayer time! (Non -negotiable) 6:45AM - 7AM - Cleaning up rituals...  Read More » How do I learn C++ in one night? I know it's possible. Richard Kenneth Eng, Used Fortran, Tandem TAL, C/C++, C#, Obj-C, Java, Smalltalk, Python, Go Written Aug 2 You know it's possible? How the hell do you know that? Frankly, you know squat. I'm here to tell you categorically that it's impossible. C++ is the world's largest and most c...  Read More » What is better, 1GB of 2666 MHz DDR4 RAM, or 4GB of 400 MHz DDR RAM? Joe Zbiciak, Employed Written Sep 23, 2017 Let me start by asking a similar question. Which is better: A Ferrari F50… (Image from Wikipedia.) …or a Ford F150? ... Read More » Is getting a PhD worth it so people will call you a doctor? Dusty McGarry, lives in Oregon (2011-present) Updated Aug 21 I have a PhD in engineering. What does it get me? Of COURSE it's fun in bed, Doctor! Doctor! Even more fun when both of you are PhD and/or MD. A PhD in engineering not only g...  Read More » If you were driving a car which was moving at the exact same speed as a bullet travelling alongside you, could you just pluck it out of mid air with your hand or would it still injure you? Valdis Klētnieks, BS Mathematics & Physics, Clarkson University (1984) Written Sep 4 If you were driving a car which was moving at the exact same speed as a bullet travelling alongside you, could you just pluck it out of mid air with your hand or would it s...  Read More » Why is Chernobyl still radioactive but Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now inhabited? C David Rollins, works at Bridgestone Americas Written Jun 9, 2019 The "Little Boy" atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima on the morning of August 6, 1945 contained only a few dozen kilograms of uranium of which less than one kilogram actua...  Read More » With a 3.7 GPA, do I really have any chance of getting into a math PhD program? If so, what tier? Michael Quackenbush May, PhD Plasma Physics, Princeton University (2024) Written Jun 14, 2019 I can't answer for math PhDs in particular, but I (and many of my friends) very recently applied to physics PhD programs. PhD programs do care about your GPA. Being able to ...  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/