Work Update
Things at work have been progressing pretty well. Here are the highlights from the last week.
- QoH spoke to his lawyer about getting me a permanent residency status based on my “exemplary” research records. I first thought he was kidding around, but when the lawyer responded favorably, I was pretty surprised. I dont think I actually qualify as the top 5% of the researchers in my field.
- J has asked me to see if I can outsource part of the my work to industrial houses. This way I will be able to design complicated devices without having to worry about fabrication issues. Its an expensive proposition, and I dont think I would get a chance at gaining this experience in academia.
- QoH and I had yet another two hour discussion on my career. He thinks I need another 3-4 transactions papers to make the cut for an academic career. He has already found 2 papers within the lab that I could co-author on. He is going to step away from these papers and let me play the “guidance” role, thus earning my co-authorship. I almost want to kiss him for being so sweet.
- The Super-Student gave a talk to my lab last week. I had requested QoH to arrange it so that we can meet this guy, and learn from him. It was an excellent talk. There were only 6 of us in the audience, so it was practically a group conversation. That guy was really nice, and gave me a lot of advice and pointers. He has promised to help me make contacts in the field of consultancy and management if I am ever interested in it.
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By Wanna Be PhD, July 6, 2005 @ 6:17 pm
“Super-Student”: Wah, how awful! I just read your entry about him. There is this guy at Harvard, only two years older than me, and he is already a professor! He is directing dissertations!
I so much hate him for this (although I do not know him personally and I do not want to be a professor in Harvard).
I have a very strong opinion about people from MIT, maybe I’ll blog about that … I think their CV’s are only very high tuned. And they get all their connections because MIT has good connections to sponsors, so people are handed over. It is definitely NOT only their personal achievement.
And I have read several bad papers from MIT.