In this blog, the goal is to share my experiences and observations mostly related to my research and in the good hope that it will not only help me in self discovery but also creatures of my kind...!
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Everyone has career dreams. Mine was to become a researcher and hence after earning my bachelor degree in materials science engineering, I headed for graduate education. Unlike my bachelor where I passed many courses, submitted substantial number of assignments and homework and a final year project, graduate school was all about bits and pieces of research problems everyone was endlessly working on. The earlier top-bottom approach i.e. read a text-book, consolidate concepts, digging out literature and designing and implementing a research plan doesn’t worked for me. I found myself floating in utter confusion and chaos. The reason was obvious: I was expecting external guidelines by the faculty, advisor and school establishment just like a semester by semester plan in an undergraduate school & also I expected I be given a project by an advisor that is suitable for my background. In nutshell I was looking for rules, set boundaries and limits. There was none!!!
Over the time I learned that graduate research degree is very different from undergraduate degree. Here you are the creator of your degree. You take courses according to your own research needs. You can work on your area of research interest in your own way as long as you keep coming up with research findings. While the broader limits are there, you are expected to play it your way and play it smart. Therefore I think it’s very important that one should know about the nature of higher education and hence establish realistic expectations and set goals that can be reasonably achieved. Choose carefully what you want to work on and then stick to it. Focusing on as much information as you need for your research and selectively limit your research endeavors so that not only you can complete it in time but also add incrementally new knowledge to your area of science. Especially choosing something of interest is very important since it will be very hard for you to keep yourself motivated otherwise. But anyway one should keep it in mind that research is all about passion and patience and you need both to survive.Hi all,
Finally i created a blog. Thanks to all the funny, witty and awesome bloggers who inspired me to jump in too and shared with you all the space of my life. Haven’t planned anything as to what shall i post in near future. Also dunno at the moment how this experience will turn out. I guess it will be reasonable to let the things unfold on its own…
More later be blessed…
