Thursday, May 7, 2009

What Are Your Most Important Research Problems?

Advisers, Research Topic, Fund Support, Facilities, Manpower Support, etc...

1 comment:

Jonathan L. Salvacion said...

When I was an MS student in UP-Diliman, we did not have much money, only a lot of ideas. I built my set up partly out of scrap and new materials. The most difficult part was getting data because my apparatus kept breaking down.

As a Ph.D. student in Japan, I nearly had everything I needed: funds, an excellent library, a world-renowned adviser (he was an authority on bubble columns), good facilities, and time (I had nothing else to do but study). My main problems were collecting data and publishing my results. I was going along a well-beaten path and it was extremely difficult to find something new. A secondary problem was language. I wrote my dissertation and other papers in English but all my presentations and the final defense had to be in Japanese.

What about you? Can you share with me your present problems? I may be able to help you. I can't until you tell me.