An insider's look at how academia *really* works, by a first-generation college student, and a Professor of History of 14 years.
***More about Tom Mullaney***
Tom Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, Curator of the international exhibition, Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age, and author of The Chinese Typewriter: A History (MIT Press 2017).
His work has been featured in the LA Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, and in invited lectures at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more.
His writings have appeared in Technology & Culture, Aeon, Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Asian Studies, and Foreign Policy.
He holds a PhD from Columbia University.
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Sir.. thank you so much for this great advice.. this is something i have learnt lately with experience... not taking time to process our thoughts/emotions.. rushing from one thing to another makes it difficult to absorb it and it barred my mind from generating thoughts or ideas or understanding or relating the subject to my aim/background... it feels meaningless and yes i have questioned myself as "what am i really doing"... the self conversation stops. Now i always try to keep time apart for my own processing.
I find it very useful and often the last resort for finding articles on less common topics, where my university’s library catalogue doesn’t find a single publication and the ones showing up on google scholar/ google books are not available in Europe. For example, I wanted to read some papers about contemporary Ecuadorian popular (folk) music genres, how they originated and how their reception in Ecuadorian society has been. Impossible to get a hand on barely anything, only on the academia site did I get access to a few articles on that topic and the author’s profile made me see, that this was what I was looking for. Apart from that, it’s handy for sharing some common research interest with scholar that are friends/ acquaintances of mine. I do agree, that beyond that, it’s a waste of time and very annoying with these random citations.
$500 Credit limit visa card was the best part of being a first week college freshman. I was building credit and was not going into debt by paying off my monthly balance on time every month. I was building credit. years before my older brother who only went to a 2 year technical college and had no financial credit.
An issue or topic can attract a lot of attention in the press and still be painfully narrow. I'd even go so far as to say that painfully narrow topics, lacking context, are MORE likely to attract a lot of media attention and public discourse. Eg; "North/South Migration Around the World and Over Time" would be an issue/topic that I'd consider broad. "Migration Across the US Southern Border" is a topic that I'd consider to be an exemplar of narrow questions. But all that's just facts. The interesting part of this video is the emotion that the commentator brings to the show.
Wow. Thank you for taking the time to make and post this video. Even though it was published 2 years ago with only 2k views, it felt like you just spoke to me and my current situation. In high excitement of being in grad school, we often take for granted the value of emptiness in the process of learning. Thank you for your video, and I hope you keep making them as you obviously have a natural talent in articulating these nuanced ideas.
I am about to giving viva and I have no idea about the oral exam. My supervisor is saying you will pass but I know that I need to prepare a lot before appearing in the exam. Can anyone here in comments guide what needs to prepare before oral exam? I know all of my thesis work has been published in well reputed Journal and good conferences but I need to prepare. I am so worried about what to prepare and how to handle the questions. Comments are most welcome regarding to the suggestions!
I failed my Ph D qualification exams, TWICE! I had to get special permission to take it for the third time. I am now Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCR.
Outgrow the clique! Widen your range of influence by avoiding them, and develop relationships with everyone you work with on your own terms. You do not want to be lumped into a group. Get your own life, rise above the BS, and quit worrying about the silly judgements of people, who are too insecure to have their own independent thoughts/voice.
This was incredibly helpful to this first time author who is faced with a contract that I didn't know how to interpret - thank you! (although your link doesn't seem to work any more)
Great video & awesome seeing you are doing what you love (and spread the knowledge). For a person like me full of meaningless questions. I should get your book(congratulations)! Naomi from NYC
That was incredibly inspiring! I already knew I was blessed to have had a highly committed and supportive advisor who motivated me to excel in my work. Hearing about some of the 'horror stories' involving advisors who expected their students to babysit for them only deepened my gratitude for the mentorship I received.
