YOU MAY NOW CALL ME MASTER.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Since I passed my defense this morning.

Official graduation date is the 14th, and I still have one class to finish, but that's splitting hairs at this point.

Congratulations, Kai.  I knew you'd do it.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Congrats, Kai.

[Kai]

Since I passed my defense this morning.

Official graduation date is the 14th, and I still have one class to finish, but that's splitting hairs at this point.

Congratulations, Kai.  I knew you'd do it.

Roger, you know what the greatest prize of this research has been?

Two weeks ago, I was at a workshop for people who study aquatic bugs and use them in testing water quality. After I presented my research, people were excited about it, they were asking all sorts of questions. One person told me he wanted to go home and look at some bugs to try it out! So, theres a great pleasure of knowing that other people see your research and use it, that they get excited about it. This is better than any sort of formal prestige I could ever receive. Hell, it's better than the degree!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Since I passed my defense this morning.

Official graduation date is the 14th, and I still have one class to finish, but that's splitting hairs at this point.

Congratulations, Kai.  I knew you'd do it.

Roger, you know what the greatest prize of this research has been?

Two weeks ago, I was at a workshop for people who study aquatic bugs and use them in testing water quality. After I presented my research, people were excited about it, they were asking all sorts of questions. One person told me he wanted to go home and look at some bugs to try it out! So, theres a great pleasure of knowing that other people see your research and use it, that they get excited about it. This is better than any sort of formal prestige I could ever receive. Hell, it's better than the degree!

Having both is good, too.

[Lies]

Since I passed my defense this morning.

Official graduation date is the 14th, and I still have one class to finish, but that's splitting hairs at this point.

Congratulations, Kai.  I knew you'd do it.

Roger, you know what the greatest prize of this research has been?

Two weeks ago, I was at a workshop for people who study aquatic bugs and use them in testing water quality. After I presented my research, people were excited about it, they were asking all sorts of questions. One person told me he wanted to go home and look at some bugs to try it out! So, theres a great pleasure of knowing that other people see your research and use it, that they get excited about it. This is better than any sort of formal prestige I could ever receive. Hell, it's better than the degree!

This. I want that feeling.

[Kai]

Since I passed my defense this morning.

Official graduation date is the 14th, and I still have one class to finish, but that's splitting hairs at this point.

Congratulations, Kai.  I knew you'd do it.

Roger, you know what the greatest prize of this research has been?

Two weeks ago, I was at a workshop for people who study aquatic bugs and use them in testing water quality. After I presented my research, people were excited about it, they were asking all sorts of questions. One person told me he wanted to go home and look at some bugs to try it out! So, theres a great pleasure of knowing that other people see your research and use it, that they get excited about it. This is better than any sort of formal prestige I could ever receive. Hell, it's better than the degree!

This. I want that feeling.

Tips for doing it.

!. Go into science. Seriously.

2. Choose a field of science that isn't oversaturated.

3. Choose specific projects that aren't being worked on, or that other people have thrown up their hands at.


There are many people who go into research on things that have so many people already addressing the problem that it's very difficult to do something that someone else isn't already doing or working on. Insect systematics is really nice like that, because anytime I discover a particular type of bug is saturated with workers I move on to something else. I always seem to pick the problems that no one else wants. This is the KEY to doing novel research that people will use.

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Any tips on fields of science that aren't oversaturated? What's a good way of gathering information in that regard (is this possible without already being balls-deep into a program)?

I've always intended on going back to finish my other degree in psychology. One of the reasons I changed directions was due to the excess of psychology students. Now I want to have one foot in social science and one foot in biological science. Any suggestions?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You didn't ask me but... neuroscience is pretty saturated, but seems to be an expanding field.

[Rumckle]

Awesome Kai, that's totally kick ass!!

[Kai]

Any tips on fields of science that aren't oversaturated? What's a good way of gathering information in that regard (is this possible without already being balls-deep into a program)?

I've always intended on going back to finish my other degree in psychology. One of the reasons I changed directions was due to the excess of psychology students. Now I want to have one foot in social science and one foot in biological science. Any suggestions?

You're thinking too broad. Narrow it down. Is there one aspect of human behavior that you would like to become an expert in? And I don't mean vague categories, I mean something specific. The social sciences suffer, as E.O. Wilson noted, because testing hypotheses is generally not rigorous. You don't want to be a general expert in the sense of working on everything. Reading and learning everything, yes, but your personal work should be as narrow as possible, so that your conclusions are precise and exacting. The sort of thing the Social "sciences" absolutely need.

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Any tips on fields of science that aren't oversaturated? What's a good way of gathering information in that regard (is this possible without already being balls-deep into a program)?

I've always intended on going back to finish my other degree in psychology. One of the reasons I changed directions was due to the excess of psychology students. Now I want to have one foot in social science and one foot in biological science. Any suggestions?

You're thinking too broad. Narrow it down. Is there one aspect of human behavior that you would like to become an expert in? And I don't mean vague categories, I mean something specific. The social sciences suffer, as E.O. Wilson noted, because testing hypotheses is generally not rigorous. You don't want to be a general expert in the sense of working on everything. Reading and learning everything, yes, but your personal work should be as narrow as possible, so that your conclusions are precise and exacting. The sort of thing the Social "sciences" absolutely need.

Yeah, I know. Maybe it's all the bullshit in the design world, but everything scientific looks extremely appealing right now. It's still very helpful to hear it from you as well, though.

I guess if I were pressed to get more specific, I'd say epigenetics, intercellular communication in humans, or human nonverbal communication are all neck and neck for the top spot. Are those specific enough?

Thanks for your input man, I really appreciate it. Maybe we should take this to private messages to avoid spagging up your celebration thread?

You didn't ask me but... neuroscience is pretty saturated, but seems to be an expanding field.

Thanks Nigel, I appreciate your input too.

[Jenne]

LOVE LOVE LOVE human nonverb communication!

/irrelevant post but still

[Kai]

Any tips on fields of science that aren't oversaturated? What's a good way of gathering information in that regard (is this possible without already being balls-deep into a program)?

I've always intended on going back to finish my other degree in psychology. One of the reasons I changed directions was due to the excess of psychology students. Now I want to have one foot in social science and one foot in biological science. Any suggestions?

You're thinking too broad. Narrow it down. Is there one aspect of human behavior that you would like to become an expert in? And I don't mean vague categories, I mean something specific. The social sciences suffer, as E.O. Wilson noted, because testing hypotheses is generally not rigorous. You don't want to be a general expert in the sense of working on everything. Reading and learning everything, yes, but your personal work should be as narrow as possible, so that your conclusions are precise and exacting. The sort of thing the Social "sciences" absolutely need.

Yeah, I know. Maybe it's all the bullshit in the design world, but everything scientific looks extremely appealing right now. It's still very helpful to hear it from you as well, though.

I guess if I were pressed to get more specific, I'd say epigenetics, intercellular communication in humans, or human nonverbal communication are all neck and neck for the top spot. Are those specific enough?

Thanks for your input man, I really appreciate it. Maybe we should take this to private messages to avoid spagging up your celebration thread?

Nahh, it's fine.

If those are three areas that you are interested in, pick one, do massive amounts of reading primary literature, and then ask a compelling, unanswered question. Then focus solely on that for the next ten years of your life.

Other awesome news: It looks like I will be getting an internship with the arthropod collection at a certain museum. Can't give any more information than that.

[Luna]

Any tips on fields of science that aren't oversaturated? What's a good way of gathering information in that regard (is this possible without already being balls-deep into a program)?

I've always intended on going back to finish my other degree in psychology. One of the reasons I changed directions was due to the excess of psychology students. Now I want to have one foot in social science and one foot in biological science. Any suggestions?

You're thinking too broad. Narrow it down. Is there one aspect of human behavior that you would like to become an expert in? And I don't mean vague categories, I mean something specific. The social sciences suffer, as E.O. Wilson noted, because testing hypotheses is generally not rigorous. You don't want to be a general expert in the sense of working on everything. Reading and learning everything, yes, but your personal work should be as narrow as possible, so that your conclusions are precise and exacting. The sort of thing the Social "sciences" absolutely need.

Yeah, I know. Maybe it's all the bullshit in the design world, but everything scientific looks extremely appealing right now. It's still very helpful to hear it from you as well, though.

I guess if I were pressed to get more specific, I'd say epigenetics, intercellular communication in humans, or human nonverbal communication are all neck and neck for the top spot. Are those specific enough?

Thanks for your input man, I really appreciate it. Maybe we should take this to private messages to avoid spagging up your celebration thread?

Nahh, it's fine.

If those are three areas that you are interested in, pick one, do massive amounts of reading primary literature, and then ask a compelling, unanswered question. Then focus solely on that for the next ten years of your life.

Other awesome news: It looks like I will be getting an internship with the arthropod collection at a certain museum. Can't give any more information than that.

That's very cool.  I imagine it's the kind of thing that'd have me fleeing for the doors inside of a month, but, cool for you.  (Bugs I can handle in small doses, but, surrounded by them, day after day...  I'd be seeing the ones pinned to boards twitch out of the corner of my eye inside of a week.)