As an advisor, who is your best Ph.D student and why?

Answer: Q: "As an advisor, who is your best Ph.​D student and why?" Presently.​.​.​ Long's Digest Top Stories For You As an advisor, who is your best Ph.D student and why? Saeed Doroudiani, PhD, P.Eng., Chemical Engineer, Materials/Polymer Scientist Updated May 8, 2019 Q: "As an advisor, who is your best Ph.D student and why?" Presently, I am not a formal active university advisor and faculty member. As an academic advisor, based on my aca...  Read More » A coder tells me that int* p1 = new int; in C++ is dangerous because p1 points to an empy value (uninitialized). But when I print *p1, the value is 0. Can you explain why it actually has a value and works fine? Marty Fouts Written May 11 "A coder" is giving you a very badly worded comment. int *p1 = new int; is a perfectly fine piece of code. The advice they should give you, rather, is that you should not read...  Read More » I got rejected from MIT. Would it be frowned upon if I sent an appeal letter to the MIT dean and the admissions office? Paul Ackman, MS Supply Chain Management & Business Analytics, Virginia Commonwealth Universit... Written Mar 30 Short answer, there is no such thing as an "appeal letter" for admissions. The question really is, "I was rejected by MIT. If I ask them politely, will they tell me why I was rejected?" ...  Read More » What is the hard truth of being a Ph. D. student? Neil Menon, Postdoc in Materials Science | TEDx Speaker Written May 18 In most cases, across the 5 years you spend, your eventual PhD degree is worth just about 2 - 3 months of successful work. The remaining 4.5 years is all about handling fail...  Read More » Why are pizzas so expensive whereas the ingredients which go into them are not? Jeff Lewis Written Apr 23 There's an old joke in engineering*: There was an engineer who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical. After serving his company loyally for over 30 years,...  Read More » Are all programming languages based on C? Christophe Grosjean, works at WALLIX Updated Dec 31, 2016 Just having a look at the family tree of computer languages should clarify the position of C. C is a very successful computer language and its descendants (C++, Java, Object...  Read More » As a professor, what things make you admire in a student and accept to be his supervisor, especially if he is new and you didn't teach him, just from emails and meetings? Barbara Robson, Research Scientist (Modelling Aquatic Ecosystems) Written May 12 Their initial email has been targeted to me personally. If someone writes to me proposing to do a marine biology PhD or a flood hydraulics PhD, I know they have no idea who...  Read More » Why are so few graduate math textbooks suitable for self-study? In the 21st century we will all need to continue to educate ourselves after graduation, including in advanced math, to have a job. Andrew Winkler, former Professor at Columbia University (1989-1993) Written Jun 27, 2019 With rare exceptions like Lang and Lax, textbooks are generally not written by the people with the deepest understanding of the material they cover. Sometimes, they're flat...  Read More » Which software's code awes you with its sheer audacity and brilliance? Ian Newman, studied at The High School Experience (2019) Updated Jan 5 LLVM. If you've never heard of it before, LLVM is an acronym for "low-level virtual machine" and it is arguably the single most significant innovation in the development of ...  Read More » What degrees are higher than a PhD? Robert Minchin Written Jun 16, 2019 A PhD is the highest degree you can study for. It isn't the highest degree, however, in France and Germany there is "habilitation", which is a qualification showing you are...  Read More »   Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (605 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive this type of email in the future, please unsubscribe.http://www.quora.com/