May 14, 2008...7:19 am
Superstitious
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I’m not a “spiritual” person and I don’t believe in ghosts or horoscopes (though finding out that my advisor is a metal dragon–mechagodzilla–in the Chinese system was pretty hilarious), but I really can’t resist a good fortune cookie.
I passed my orals!
The one piece of advice that I never got, but that I will now try to give to as many other graduate students as possible is: be happy, confident and excited about your work. Passion and enthusiasm will be reflected back to you, just as fear and self-doubt will help them destroy you.
Well, that, and study your ass off.
Now I just have this little ol’ thing called a dissertation to write. No sweat, right? heh.
5 Comments
May 14, 2008 at 7:29 am
As if there was ever any doubt you’d pass.
I’m very proud of you.
May 14, 2008 at 8:09 am
Thank you, jess!
May 14, 2008 at 9:58 am
You should have brought this to the exam — to show us afterward, of course.
May 15, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Well done, Smarty pants
May 19, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Well said:
“The one piece of advice that I never got, but that I will now try to give to as many other graduate students as possible is: be happy, confident and excited about your work. Passion and enthusiasm will be reflected back to you, just as fear and self-doubt will help them destroy you.”
That took me years to learn, but it’s true. Get excited about things you like. It makes me sad when I see that youngsters are hindred by fear of authority, lack of selfestem.
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