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My expectations or summer research: BUSY and CRAZY!

Posted by Zhirui Zhu on 2009-06-22

  All right! I guess tonight is for blog only! Second one! Go Go Go!

  The reason why I must finish all my blog today is because my entire lab people are back this week and it is going to be crazily busy for the rest of the 4 weeks.

  After carefully understanding the Howard Hughes summer program calendar, I find a series thing which is that we suppose to complete our poster at the end of the 7th week, and, which means that I need to finish my project at the end of 6th week.

  O my god, I can’t imagine how busy I will for the next 4 weeks! And yea, that is my expectations for this summer, busy and crazy! :P

  After I read the assigned article, there are several points which I quite agree with. For instance, “experience is more important than output”. Apparently, it is very hard to get paper published within two months. Do a calculation, if you can publish one paper within two month, which means that you can publish 6 papers within one year. If we say that it takes 5 years to graduate from graduate school which means, you can publish about 30 papers after you get Ph.D. I do not think it most likely will happen. Therefore, although publish a paper is one of my goals for this summer, but I understand that learning experience and understanding the basic methods of scientific research is way more important then get papers.

  Yea, I guess, I will work hard, enjoy the Howard Hughes program and have fun of the real research.
 

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