在米国读本科准备读博的感受

I am going to start doing a Ph.D. starting in fall 2020, and I feel that I should write something to share some perspectives.
I started my undergrad at a university with the idea that I wanted to do a Ph.D. afterward. I started hunting for research opportunities as early as my freshman year, and I studied hard to get a good GPA. If you know about this, in college there are 3 factors that need to be in balance, sleep, GPA, and social opportunities. For me, there is one additional factor- research. The priorities that I set throughout my college are GPA, research, and sleep. Everything can be sacrificed in exchange for a higher GPA, more time for research and more time to sleep.


I feel bad that I sacrificed a lot of time to make friends, join clubs, join a fraternity, and have fun. As I looked around and saw what my peers were doing, they seemed to have a better and happier life than I. Sometimes my emotion got over me, and I ended up crying in my room. I was feeling bad about not having as many friends, and not having enough fun. There were big days like the last day of class when normally a group of friends would end up drinking and joking together. I was lucky, and I lived off a friend group of my ex once and another time with one of my guy friends.  

However, I do think all the sacrifices I made were justified by the offer to attend a Ph.D. program in fall 2020 amid this pandemic. Sometimes you just need to be hard to yourself for a better reward in the future. There are people who seem to have a better life than you at the moment, but you need to think about this- what matters most to your happiness in the future?

英文写作能力还有很大的提高空间！加油💪。多看学术文章，多看美国的报纸和杂志，然后多做一些读书笔记都会对写作能力有很大的帮助。比如说第一句“ Doing a PhD” 就让人感觉有点出戏了。会不会“Pursuing a Ph.D. Degree”会更好一些呢？

岛屿云烟 发表于 2020/05/02 12:10:04
....这只是日常写作 口语化很正常 lz可能只是习惯了写英文or不想被人认出来 在我看来lz英文很地道了

首先，我没有弄明白“不想被人认出来“和英语写的好不好有什么联系。你这个逻辑我真想不通。

其次，英文写作是一个需要日积月累的过程，不是说我想好好写就写的好的，必须从平时的每个事情上都要积累。比如你给老师发了一个陶瓷邮件，邮件里面全是语法错误或者语句不通，即使你是GPA 4.0 我也不会要你。另外，本人非常讨厌那些在朋友圈发一堆英文感慨，然后满屏幕的语法错误和语言不通的人，自以为英语很好，其实就是过度自信，详细内容请参考 Dunning - Kruger effect.

最后，他的英语真的不地道，你的英语也还有很多提高的空间。

其实我是很崇拜楼主这种愿意为一件事情，牺牲这么多的，我觉得楼主思考思考，调整好心态很重要，phd 的抑郁率之前看文章是工作里最高的，然而有的时候phd 里的有些事情又你不一定能把控，坑老板，坑课题。。。。

我本科的时候也没做啥有事情，很好的事情是，美国的本科让我明白了，人是可以放弃的和要接受放弃

赞一个，很难想象这是中国学生写的

据说fraternity的friends过几年都变成了frenemies 这样想牺牲的就少了。。

symbollol 发表于 2020/05/02 12:04:08
英文写作能力还有很大的提高空间！加油💪。多看学术文章，多看美国的报纸和杂志，然后多做一些读书笔记都会对写...

....这只是日常写作 口语化很正常 lz可能只是习惯了写英文or不想被人认出来 在我看来lz英文很地道了

英文写作能力还有很大的提高空间！加油💪。多看学术文章，多看美国的报纸和杂志，然后多做一些读书笔记都会对写作能力有很大的帮助。

我也是在米国读的本科，我觉得要提高英文写作就要总写。（twitter，facebook，日记啥的都可以）。但很少美国人会告诉你写的地不地道。感觉就少symbollol 的人说你英语地不地道。我也知道一些PhD， 博后啥的，就会写学术的写作。

symbollol 发表于 2020-5-2 12:04
英文写作能力还有很大的提高空间！加油💪。多看学术文章，多看美国的报纸和杂志，然后多做一些读书 ...

笑死。
知不知道写作分场合啊？一看就是那种别人用 use 非带改成 utilize 的以为自己英语很好的人。