from the article:
"Junior graduate students think senior graduate students are smarter, but they’re not: they simply have more practice.
Senior graduate students think junior professors are smarter, but they’re not: they simply have more practice."
My M.S advisor is a really hard worker, so he has a lot of experience doing research and is very good at it. For a while as an undergrad, I thought he was not particularly smart, just hardworking. However, after I started working on my first real problem as part of my thesis, I changed my mind. I realized that to work hard you actually need to be smart (of course there are many other factors related to time and money), otherwise it is very frustrating.
Senior graduate students think junior professors are smarter, but they’re not: they simply have more practice."
My M.S advisor is a really hard worker, so he has a lot of experience doing research and is very good at it. For a while as an undergrad, I thought he was not particularly smart, just hardworking. However, after I started working on my first real problem as part of my thesis, I changed my mind. I realized that to work hard you actually need to be smart (of course there are many other factors related to time and money), otherwise it is very frustrating.