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Notes for Graduate Students
Performance
Progress: if you are unable to make any significant progress on
your project
within a reasonable timeframe (e.g., 1-2 months), you are definitely in
trouble
Efficiency: your competitors would appreciate your slow work
Quality: publishable data in a leading journal
Do you show some phenotypes of “Thirteen features of a bad
student” (see
below)?
Communication
Be a nice and happy lab member
Respect others’ privacy
Always appreciate any help and favors from others (this should be
taught by your
parents when you were a toddler)
Active interactions with advisor and colleagues
Response to advice appropriately by either explanation or
experimentation.
Shrugging off the advisor’s suggestion without any explanation is
absolutely not
allowed
Your personal research interests should be a part of the lab’s
interests, but not
solely based on your thesis for an easy Ph.D. degree
If you disagree with your advisor, speak out!
There is absolutely NO experiment that does not have a conclusion
There is absolutely NO project that does not have a conclusion
A tough project does not mean a gradually disappearing or forgettable
project
Coordinate with colleagues for the usage of equipments, space and
reagents, etc.
Presentation in lab meetings: treat your every presentation as a
publication
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Working as a professional scientist
It is the shared responsibilities of your advisor and yourself to
move a project
forward
You are absolutely NOT allowed to release any unpublished data or
any
experimental materials/regents (including published experimental
materials/regents) outside the lab without permission
Record everything you have done by notes and photos, etc.,
including negative
results
You should know how to use major databases (e.g., NCBI and TARI)
but rather
than an expert on SINA, SOHU or any other non-scientific websites
Include appropriate controls in EVERY experiment
Knowledge on your field: read at least two original research
papers per week
Working as a dedicated scientist
Everyone has personal business, but the lab business always has
priority unless in
emergency
In this business, an “average” student who works seven days a
week is definitely
more productive than a “genius” who works five days a week
If you are able to make any major progresses by working 8 hours a
day and 5 days
a week, every fortunate in this world must be on your side!
Go to your mother’s house for afternoon naps and never come back!
Start your morning work not later than 8:30 am and afternoon work
no later than 1
pm
Surf over the Internet for non-scientific purposes should be less
than 30 min a day
If you are absent from the lab more than one hour, get permission
first.
Use your brains: think and work smartly
A good graduate student is not a robot
A good graduate student always knows what he/she is doing and
what he/she has
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done
A good graduate student always scientifically goes beyond what he
/she has been
“advised”
A good graduate student must independently think about the
project and read the
data as well as catch hints derived from the data
You should learn and eventually know how to interpret your data
You should learn and eventually know how to write a paper or a
progress
report in a professional and logic way
You should be capable of tackling technical troubles by smartly
using
references and by discussing with coworkers
If you use your brain, you should be able to avoid unnecessary,
stupid
mistakes or to avoid making the same mistakes more than once. Many of such
mistakes cannot be rescued by money (e.g., the loss of mutant seeds)
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Thirteen features of a bad student
1. No or slow response to a suggestion or request of your advisor.
2. Looks sleepy most of time. Lack of self-motivation.
3. Clannish. Interaction mainly confined to a specific person (e.g. girl
friend). And a
mix-up of professional and private life.
4. Starts the work late in the morning. Brings breakfast to lab because gets
up late.
5. Seldom speaks in the lab meeting. Seems an alien not involved in lab
business.
6. Tends to take a back seat in the seminar room and enjoys relaxing or half
sleeping
when others talk about lab business or research.
7. Does an experiment without knowing the related chemistry, mathematics and
physics principles behind it.
8. Misperception, inexperience plus stubbornness.
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9. Unable to get the assigned lab job or task done, but always finds good
excuses.
10. Lack of enthusiasm for everything including your fellow students – not
helpful.
11. Does a new experiment without discussing with the advisor in advance.
12. Data are not sorted out with Powerpoint slides or Photoshop figures.
Sloppy
notebook.
13. Does internet reading etc. in the waiting time during experiments in
order to
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