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I checked everything, but I will get comments back after my defence next month and then have a week to implement corrections.Did you already complete all the format checking, or is that still to come?
I checked everything, but I will get comments back after my defence next month and then have a week to implement corrections.Did you already complete all the format checking, or is that still to come?
I checked everything, but I will get comments back after my defence next month and then have a week to implement corrections.
Submitted my PhD thesis! Finally I can catch up on sleep.
Man, the formatting requirements by my department and then my college were a headache. They had some crazy rule they implemented just this year about using footnotes - had to re-organize a ton of my dissertation. I hope your experience is better than mine!
I visited my faculty's wind tunnel lab two days ago and might get to play in it with drones for my research. It's quite exciting haha
Congrats
I'm currently in graduate school for engineering but my heart is simply not in it. I entered because I'm good at it and graduate school felt like the right thing but just not enjoying it much at all.
But yeah, have a bachelors and working on a Ph.D, masters as a fallback I guess.
I assume you're writing it in latex? I would've died if I had to do it any other way.
Master's for free is not bad.In most programs, if you pass your oral qualifying exams, you technically have a masters if you don't end up finishing your PhD. Every day I'm temped to jump ship and just take the masters.
Microsoft Word - I didn't even have footnotes in there originally, but the requirements changed to require footnotes at the beginning of each chapter. As it turns out, Microsoft Word is a piece of shit when you try to include unique footnotes randomly throughout a document.
So I have to write my first lit review and I am again questioning why the hell I am pursuing my masters. Ugh.
Submitted my PhD thesis! Finally I can catch up on sleep.
Ahh, that is brutal. I can't stand Word for anything but the simplest of documents. I hope you don't have too much trouble.
Master's for free is not bad.
In most programs, if you pass your oral qualifying exams, you technically have a masters if you don't end up finishing your PhD. Every day I'm temped to jump ship and just take the masters.
So I've been working at my post-MSc job for 5 months now, started out at the bottom of the salary range for my university job-bracket. Which was admittedly not too great, but I liked the job and hey, gotta start somewhere post-graduation.
Last week my prof got a 7-year/3Mio-$ grant Canada Foundation Grant so I got a raise to the top of the salary range for my bracket with no risk of us running out of money anytime soon.
SCORE.
Nice. Are you at UBC/SFU? I did my undergrad at UVic and we're currently in Ontario, hoping to move back west soon.
Well, I started applying about a month ago to post-doc positions. Applied to about 7 labs. Two had no funding, two didn't reply, and three offered me interviews. Of those three, as of today, all three have offered me a post-doc position.
Anyone have any advice for negotiating final details (salary etc.)? I received a "formal offer" in the form of an email, but we'll discuss all the details and go over paper work in a day or two. I think I'm prepared for it all, but just looking for any extra advice. It'll be at a ~top 15 med school in the US, so my expectation is that they should pay me roughly the NIH minimum for a 0-year post-doc... or, should pay me the new $47,000+ number to align with the new Department of Labor standards. Besides salary and some things regarding travel (vacation and conference-wise), I don't think I have much I need/want to negotiate based on what I've been told so far.
Just finishing mine up and preparing to defend. What is your discipline and topic? Been working on mine for quite a while through various iterations so I might be able to give you some helpful tips.
I'm an incoming graduate student. Tomorrow, I'm gonna be sitting in a meeting with a professor about a research assistantship (one I really want). They reached out to me first, saying I would be well-suited for this research. I'm really nervous as to what to expect. Should I prepare as I would do for a job interview?
So I have always been consistent in terms of having a one page resume when applying to jobs, and it's gone well (although I struggle to be concise sometimes).
However, I have heard inconsistent things when it comes to applying for graduate school. Several of the online resources I have looked at say two pages is okay for grad school, since you are likely padding it out with leadership, activities, etc (and research/publications for those who are more academically minded). I personally have a small section for education, internships, work experience, skills (programming skills, etc), and leadership/community service.
So my question is, is two pages okay as I start my grad school applications, or do I need to do some heavy condensing now to get it back down to one page.
Also, any opinions on an objective? I never put an objective for jobs, but once again, some online resources say to do so. It seems so redundant to write "applying to get into x program at y school" when thats implied by me applying. lol
So I have always been consistent in terms of having a one page resume when applying to jobs, and it's gone well (although I struggle to be concise sometimes).
However, I have heard inconsistent things when it comes to applying for graduate school. Several of the online resources I have looked at say two pages is okay for grad school, since you are likely padding it out with leadership, activities, etc (and research/publications for those who are more academically minded). I personally have a small section for education, internships, work experience, skills (programming skills, etc), and leadership/community service.
So my question is, is two pages okay as I start my grad school applications, or do I need to do some heavy condensing now to get it back down to one page.
Also, any opinions on an objective? I never put an objective for jobs, but once again, some online resources say to do so. It seems so redundant to write "applying to get into x program at y school" when thats implied by me applying. lol
It would also be nice to actually make some money after getting a PHD
just apply for a job?
My JD diploma came in the mail today. What an expensive piece of paper.
Soo...has anyone thought about (or done) a data science bootcamp?
I'm seriously considering it as I'm really unsure about doing a post-doc
It definitely seems like a "fad" but also seems to be a job that's most similar to what a PHD does in terms of dealing with large datasets and coming up with hypotheses and such and then being able to present those results
It would also be nice to actually make some money after getting a PHD
I probably will within the next year or two. I got my PhD recently and my job relates to big data and is fantastic. There's a ton of stability in my company too which is great.
When are you planning to graduate? Do you have a lot of programming experience?
I'm writing my dissertation now and hoping to graduate by December and attend a January bootcamp
I'd say my programming experience is...okay, I know Python pretty well and in the next 6 months I'm going to try and learn as much as I can, especially machine learning
Soo...has anyone thought about (or done) a data science bootcamp?
I'm seriously considering it as I'm really unsure about doing a post-doc
It definitely seems like a "fad" but also seems to be a job that's most similar to what a PHD does in terms of dealing with large datasets and coming up with hypotheses and such and then being able to present those results
It would also be nice to actually make some money after getting a PHD
There are not a ton of jobs you can get with a PHD in neuroscience, especially over 50k
If you have a PhD in a technical field, there is absolutely no reason to do a Data Science Bootcamp, unless it is the ultra-exclusive gravy train ones that dump into a large tech company. You can easily do your own studying to get to a hire-able level.
If you're looking for a postdoc I can probably hit you up with a connection. We're always looking for neuroscience postdocs, esp with programming experience - we do a lot of modeling.
If you have a PhD in a technical field, there is absolutely no reason to do a Data Science Bootcamp, unless it is the ultra-exclusive gravy train ones that dump into a large tech company. You can easily do your own studying to get to a hire-able level.
Data Science isn't a fad. It is a good, well-paying, highly-secure career with tons of job location flexibility.
What type of neuroscience? What market? 50k is pathetically low for a PhD data scientist.
I'd like to add that if you get hired your company will most likely pay for anything like this if it's relevant. As a PhD, you can probably learn most of what's offered in this sort of thing on your own and get this sort of thing done after being hired.
Thanks for the offer, I'm definitely leaning more towards getting out of academia though
Obviously I'd like to do a "gravy train" one like insight or the data incubator which are more exclusive, have ties to big companies, are free etc.
I guess part of me wants to do a bootcamp just to make sure I know all that I need to since it hasn't been a part of my PHD necessarily, I've done lots of MOOC like coursera and Udemy and other online things like learning SQL and python
When I say "fad" I mean that it is currently the Number 1 job on glass door, tons of articles as well as the possibility of software in the future being able to do some of the things data scientists do right now, of course I believe it will be a good job long term also
I do a lot of human neuroimaging, which probably isn't the best area of neuroscience for trying to get a job outside of academia, computational I think would be best
That's a really good point, and I'll definitely look into that
Start an online Masters in CompSci in a few short days after being out of school for the past 14 years. Excited but nervous as hell.
I would love to hear about your online learning experience. Does it requires proctored tests?