I personally think that, for graduate students, you must pay attention to the methods and methods.
1. As a junior graduate student, your senior brother and sister (especially those who are about to leave the research group soon) are your resources! Whether they do well or not, it is best to communicate with them in good faith, ask them for advice, and learn the core technologies and key steps they have mastered or understood, this is very important! In general, because of graduation issues such as postingArticleAccording to rigid requirements, there is also invisible competition in the lab. Some senior brothers and sisters are unlikely to tell you everything they know (especially what they spend a lot of energy exploring and summarizing) at ordinary times, it is impossible to report to the boss without reservation, and these are exactly what you need. Maybe they just want to give you one experiment step in one sentence, but it can save you a few months of exploration. Let go of your shelf. Don't think that you have learned what your brother and sister have mastered very early. Maybe they have left a hand! But to be honest, the Senior brother and sister have no obligation to teach you. He is not your mentor! How do you learn your skills! Remember: This may save you a lot of time and energy.
2. for research, literature is one of your lives! Pay attention to reading more documents and reading the latest documents from high-end magazines. Even if your school or Research Institute does not have any resources, you can also obtain the information you need through network communication and literature transmission. Literature is used to read (learn), not to collect or show off to others, rather than just to become a document collector. In addition, to read the literature, only a few documents need to be intensively read or repeatedly read and understand.
3. A stuttering cannot be a fat man! Solve the problem step by step. Although the global dimension is very important, you can divide a big problem into multiple small ones and break them apart. Don't rush to Solve the Problem Three or two times and make yourself anxious. This will not help solve the problem. Otherwise, graduate students will not have to graduate in a few years.
4. If you consider different issues, you should pay attention to the opinions of people in the same field (although their opinions may not be correct). If they (including their mentors) make a "casual" sentence, you can think about it comprehensively, it is very helpful for you to solve the problem! Pay attention to your mentor's guidance to other members of the research group (including "reprimand") and use or avoid it in your work.
5. For graduate students with a certain foundation (senior), the literature cannot be perfect in your opinion. You can read the literature from the perspective of examination to find your direction and breakthrough, you may make something better than reading the document.
6. Ask the author of the document you are interested in or communicate with them! You notice that their achievements are in respect of them. Do not worry that you are a minor font and others will ignore you. I once emailed a foreign master to ask for an earlier paper. He told me that he did not have an electronic copy. He could send me a paper on the card and ask me to tell him the address, finally, I sent the paper to me soon.
7. In the first year of my post-graduate school, I took a job in the third year, wrote my graduation thesis, and answered my questions. Soon, I had to plan my work, be clear, and take the initiative! After determining the mentor, you should take the initiative to contact the mentor, and contact the senior and senior Sisters of the research team to prepare for it, even if you can browse the news in related fields on the Internet. Don't always wait for the mentor to urge you to do what you do, especially for doctoral students!
8. When you are busy, calm down and think about whether you are busy or "blind "! In any case, you should leave time to think and summarize. investment is very important, but do not blindly experiment!
9. Finish the experiment and process the results as soon as possible. This is very important for your subsequent experiment design! A lot of things are not what you think. You need to analyze and adjust the experiment scheme. Don't wait until you graduate to solve the problem. It's too late to come.
10. If possible, you may post an article to a better magazine as early as possible during the postgraduate course, even if you cannot post it, it will be very rewarding, because good magazines often ask experts in related fields for review and give you detailed review comments. This is a very important guide for you!
11. When you have done a solid job, the answer is just a stage for your presentation. Because of all the people present, you are the "expert" most familiar with the work in the paper ". The rest is the PPT.
12. Everyone has a difficult story! Don't complain! No matter what problems you encounter, mentors, members of the research team, funds... correct handling, hard work, good people, happy life!
Finally, do three things before going to bed every day.
1 ). what have you done today? The experiments related to the subject are described in a scientific and concise language. record the results. experiments that you think have failed must be taken seriously and find out the cause.
2) Think about and arrange the experiment to be done tomorrow, and never prepare again tomorrow.
3) Don't go to bed because the first two tasks are not good.
In this way, persistence will surely make rapid progress.