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richard_b

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  1. As a first-year student, how do I get in on a good research topic? Am I already supposed to come up with my own? My advisor has tried to give me a couple of ideas but they are really not publishable. I'm involved with a research team for a particular project, but I have nothing to do and it's going nowhere. I talked to the lead guy and he told me to tell him what I want to work on and that's fine... is this normal? Just work on something out of my own head on this huge project? I don't know what to work on. I thought it would be a good idea to get involved in an existing project so I could learn and not have to do novel research on my own yet. Can anyone offer tips on how this works? How do students find research topics and what's the best way to get involved?
  2. Thank you so much - I kinda felt... well... ASHAMED for having to do this. Your email makes perfect sense - and it's a really great answer. i'll keep that in mind.
  3. I don't think it gets better. I just stay away from school and don't socialize with people at school. That way I don't feel the pressure.
  4. Advice please? I'm a first-year graduate student and am struggling tremendously in one of my classes. The thing is that the teacher's assistants keep taking points off erroneously from my grades. Every assignment, I have to keep going back and ask them to review my grades. This is tremendously embarrassing in front of my peers (the TA's are all PhD students), not to mention the professor, but I usually walk out with 5-10% more (consider the fact that if 100% is an A+ and I had a 75%, I just walked away with 80-85%...). There are only about five assignments this semester for that class, so each counts. If I don't pass this class, I'm in trouble, so I keep going back for the points. If I were doing well in the class, I wouldn't bother. If you were me, would you keep doing this - would you do whatever it takes to pass the class, even if you look annoying and desperate? Is it annoying and desperate to keep going back? Wouldn't I feel even worse if I didn't pass the class because I didn't go back to dispute the grades?
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