So one thing I've learned about the major differences between graduate and undergraduate training is how they train you to think. In my undergraduate career, we were expected to study the information presented and demonstrate that understanding by doing homework sets and answering questions on exams...all of which the answers were already known by the professor. In graduate school, particularly for the PhD, you are still presented with information, but with that information you are expected to use it in a way to solve problems that currently do not have a solution known by anyone! This means that in order to solve these types of problems, you also have to approach them in ways that haven't been tried before in order to yield new information.I must say that this is one of the areas that has...
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