From the archives: Thanks, Daniel, for the excellent recommendation.
Thanks, Daniel, for the excellent recommendation. Last August, on one of my recurring posts about how awful grad school was, Daniel left me this: Daniel said... An excellent book on the same theme: “Disciplined Minds” by Jeff Schmidt. Dr. Schmidt earned a PhD in physics from Cal-Irvine and worked as an editor at Physics Today for nearly twenty years. After writing the book, he was promptly fired. In the book, he focuses on the experience of graduate students in physics, and how that professional degree program — like all other professional degree programs — is more focused on...
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