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Topic	Got rejected by Princeton and Virginia Tech
brestugo 02/16/21 10:18:14 PM #55:	COVxy posted... I would frame this very differently. Grad students and postdocs are the workforce of the lab. It's uncommon for a PI to spend much time in the lab. But that doesn't mean that the relationship is exploitative. Usually your PI works with you to develop your skills, in lab work and writing. You also should be working toward work that literally has your name at the front of it. Like, there are good lab environments and bad lab environments, but I would label your description as pretty misleading. Typically you are either interviewing for a particular lab, or you do rotations, in which case you get the chance to scope out the lab environment. Well, I graduated some time ago. 2003. The relationship may have changed - with the help of grad student unions, IMO. I was also in the social sciences, which were extremely exploitative towards grad students. Physics and the "hard sciences", or anything involving a lab, I am not an expert. --- Not everyone is suitable to kill a lion - Maasai proverb. <cite>brestugo posted [p:950720981] in Got reject... [t:79296740]...</cite> <quote>COVxy posted... </cite> <quote>I would frame this very differently. Grad students and postdocs are the workforce of the lab. It's uncommon for a PI to spend much time in the lab. But that doesn't mean that the relationship is exploitative. Usually your PI works with you to develop your skills, in lab work and writing. You also should be working toward work that literally has your name at the front of it. Like, there are good lab environments and bad lab environments, but I would label your description as pretty misleading. Typically you are either interviewing for a particular lab, or you do rotations, in which case you get the chance to scope out the lab environment.</quote>Well, I graduated some time ago. 2003. The relationship may have changed - with the help of grad student unions, IMO. I was also in the social sciences, which were extremely exploitative towards grad students. Physics and the "hard sciences", or anything involving a lab, I am not an expert. --- Not everyone is suitable to kill a lion - Maasai proverb.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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