Re:Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
by skeeter2020 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:10AM
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I'm not sure what your ideal of a good PhD student is; there's no measurable level of "good enough" that once met allows you to do a bunch of other things. It's supposed to be an all-consuming, single-focus period of intense research and knowledge generation.
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> It's supposed to be an all-consuming, single-focus period of intense research and knowledge generation.
This is mostly a recent phenomenon. Definitely not true for many I knew, nor of their professors when they were students.
Lots of people got a PhD by just being disciplined and working 8-5 on it in the usual time frames. I wager many still do.