What is a PhD
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The document discusses what earning a PhD entails. It describes getting elementary education, then high school education, which provides a base level of knowledge. Undergraduate and graduate degrees allow specialization and deepening of knowledge in a subject. Reading research pushes the boundaries of existing knowledge. A PhD candidate then focuses intently on pushing further at the boundaries for years through sustained research, until making an original contribution in the form of a dent in those boundaries, which is considered a PhD.
What is a PhD
- 1. Prof. Matt Might University of Utah, Computer Science(adapted by Craig Blewett from http://gizmodo.com/5613794/what-is-exactly-a-doctorate)What Exactly is a PhD?www.nexted.info
- 2. What Exactly is a PhD?Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledgewww.nexted.info
- 3. What Exactly is a PhD?By the time you finish elementary school you know a littlewww.nexted.info
- 4. What Exactly is a PhD?By the time you finish high school you know a bit morewww.nexted.info
- 5. What Exactly is a PhD?With a Bachelor’s degree you gain a specialtywww.nexted.info
- 6. What Exactly is a PhD?A Master’s Degree deepens that specialtywww.nexted.info
- 7. What Exactly is a PhD?Reading research papers takes you to the edge of human knowledgewww.nexted.info
- 8. What Exactly is a PhD?Once you’re at the boundary, you focus!www.nexted.info
- 9. What Exactly is a PhD?You PUSH at the boundary for a few yearswww.nexted.info
- 10. What Exactly is a PhD?Until one day the boundary gives way!www.nexted.info
- 11. What Exactly is a PhD?PhDAnd that dent you have made…that is called a PhD!www.nexted.info
- 12. What Exactly is a PhD?Of course the world looks different to you now.www.nexted.info
- 13. What Exactly is a PhD?But don’t forget the BIGGER picture!www.nexted.info