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What is the best way to retain learned materials
No matter who you talk to, students or professors, they all say that the materials they once learned can be quickly forgotten without further experiences that utilizes or enhances on that prior experience.
I fondly remember a professor once telling…
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What can I do to get academic credit/recognition from my hobby project?
I've created an improved textual parsing algorithm, as a part of my hobby project. In comparison to existing ones, it provides better performance and memory efficiency. I haven't published my project yet. The question is, is there any way I can…
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When asking research-based questions, what are some good practices to maximize the rates at which people reply to emails?
Matthew Might has an excellent article on his website.
But what are some other good suggestions? One important thing is identification (some professors are simply happier to reply to emails than others). Surprisingly enough, I find that famous…
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Should a postdoc talk about his depression with his mentor?
I am a postdoc in mathematics and I work in the US. Two months ago I was diagnosed with moderate depression. In retrospect, I can say that I must have starting suffering from it last spring, though I was completely unaware of it at the time. I am…
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What is the purpose of having grades?
What is the idea behind giving a student a grade? It might sound like a funny question but I'm serious.
I ask because in my previous question about disputing a mark, it's hard for me to decide how many marks and how much effort I should put into…
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How to deal with students leaving the class for 10 min during the lecture?
In the freshman classes I teach (the class is like 30-35 students), some students would step out the class for 10-15 minutes and come back. The class time is 1 hour and 15 min. This is always interrupting.
I have asked the class before that this is…
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How to respond to the trivialisation of one’s work and unjustified demands for a considerable extension of the research?
I am a graduate student in engineering whose work includes a lot of programming and implementation of the developed theories. I am not a computer scientist, but I am a fairly skilled programmer, at least when compared to other people in the…
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Should I call my adviser by her first name?
I have worked with my adviser for a few months as a graduate student. Everyone, including her other graduate students, seems to call her by her first name. She never expressed a preference to me, so I've been calling her "Dr. Smith". She signs her…
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Must I decline to review a former colleague's work?
I have been asked to review a paper that I know to have been authored by a friend and former colleague. Is it my responsibility to inform the editor and decline to review the paper?
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Who actually is a Post-Doctoral fellow?
Many of us often talk about Bachelor's and Master's students, PhD students, researchers, professors, and postdocs.
But, do we know what we actually intend when we say "Post-Doc"?
We all know that a Post-Doc is a person who, after finishing his/her…
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Should I offer co-authorship to colleagues who worked on a problem with me only initially?
I am a postdoc in theoretical aspects of CS/ML working on a quite theoretical problem. I discussed it extensively with two colleagues for a while. We all dedicated working hours to it, however, none of us got any results. The problem was formulated…
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How to deal with constant stress and uncertainty in academia?
I know there are a lot of similar questions but most of them are related to stress/pressure from their supervisor. I am doing my PhD and I am in my third year out of four. Everything is going very (or even extremely) well. I have two first-author…
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How can we promote better writing skills in academic education?
This question may be too wide or in some perspective perceived as unclear but covers a key issue (for me) in academia, namely, academic writing.
Students start their academic career with varying skills in writing. Often, and this the case in my…
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How do I continue work if I love my research but hate my peers?
I am an established researcher in my discipline, which is a sub-field of computer science. In the last years, I have successfully published papers and generally enjoyed doing research, as in developing methods, coding, running experiments,…
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What recourse do I have if the disability office grants unreasonable accommodations to a student?
I've talked to several colleagues who have expressed frustration at the amount of and kind of accommodations that some students receive. I know the Approved Position is "the disability office knows what's best so you can't question them". But what…
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