For professors, what does it feel like to have your PhD student graduate?

Answer: I know a professor who has 24 graduate students.​ He tells me that he t.​.​.​ Long's Digest Top Stories For You For professors, what does it feel like to have your PhD student graduate? Richard Muller, Professor of Physics at Berkeley, co-founder of BerkeleyEarth-org Written Mar 3, 2018 I know a professor who has 24 graduate students. He tells me that he tries to spend an hour with each one every month. If he bumps into one ten years later, I'll bet he oft... Read More » Why is AstraZeneca manufacturing 2 billion doses of the Oxford coronavirus potential vaccine, one month before the clinical results come out? What will happen if the vaccine doesn't pass clinical trials, who will take the loss? Colin Riegels Written Jul 21, 2020 C.S. Friedman pretty much nailed it with her answer, but I'd add another gloss: almost all of those 2 billion units have already been sold. So the people who are taking the... Read More » If the Hulk swallowed the Tesseract as Banner suggested in Avengers, what would happen? Dallas Nairne, MCU enthusiast Written Dec 3 Here's the dialogue: Natasha Romanoff: "It has the potential energy to wipe out the planet." Bruce Banner: What does Fury want me to do? Swallow it? Natasha Romanoff: Well, he... Read More » I'm a third year PhD student. I only manage to work 25-30 hours per week during this COVID quarantine and I feel ashamed of it. I feel very tired and demotivated to WFH everyday. How do I improve? William Beeman, Professor and Chair University of Minnesota Written Dec 6 You are in your third year, and that usually means that you are finishing your required course work, and beginning to work on your qualifying exams for which you must often... Read More » Does the CIA ever use "honey traps" or "sparrow" agents to recruit informants? Why or why not? Roland Bartetzko, former German Army Paratrooper, Croatian Defense Council, Kosovo Liberation Army Written Feb 10, 2020 In the CIA language, "agents" are foreigners that are recruited by CIA operations officers to spy on their countrymen. With absolute certainty, some of these agents sleep wi... Read More » Why does the Chinese Army use a blue camouflage pattern that might not be practical in real life? Nikolai Ezhov Updated Sep 1, 2019 To be precise, it is the PLA Marine Corps (PLAMC) who use the blue camouflage pattern. And it is not a photographic issue. The reason is, when the PLA Marine Corps was (re)e... Read More » As a professor, did you ever meet a student who you recognized as much more intelligent than you are? Joshua Gross, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CSUMB Written Dec 14 Not only more intelligent (although there are different dimensions of intelligence), but also more creative, more inventive, more talented… my job is not to be intelligent.... Read More » Which actors who can't stand each other have been able to set their differences aside long enough to work together on a movie that became very successful? Jason Ford, studied Computer Science at Howard University Updated Jan 9 Which actors who can't stand each other have been able to set their differences aside long enough to work together on a movie that became very successful? Two of my favorite... Read More » Is the CIA anywhere near as competent as they are portrayed to be in movies? Harry Cooper, former Senior Executive - Retired at Central Intelligence Agency (1988-2017) Updated Jan 4 In a word - YES. But the movies put spins on aspects that do not reflect reality. Intelligence collection can be very boring and makes lousy movies. The capabilities of US ... Read More » Do University of Chicago students feel frustrated that their school isn't mentioned in the same breath as Harvard, Yale, or Stanford? Keith Ramsay, Software Engineer (1999-present) Written Jun 14, 2020 I got my B.A. at the University of Chicago. I think nearly every college or university has its own kind of propaganda. During "freshman orientation" one of the administrator... Read More » Read More in Your Feed Never miss a story. Designed for readers on the go. 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/