@@ -29,21 +29,21 @@ because we are not students anymore.
Writing papers is your main job.
There are other worthy goals, which try to distract you:
Make students happy, make professor happy,
make colleagues happy, or save the world.
making students happy, making your professor happy,
making colleagues happy, or saving the world.
\item Present your work!
People will not notice your great work by themselves.
You have to advertise it.
The normal way is make talks about it at conferences.
Most often, this means giving talks about it at conferences.
Also try to explain your research to normal people once in a while.
\item Get a PhD!
The end goal of your current phase in life is to make
a significant original contribution to knowledge.
You have to provably solve a relevant problem in a novel way.
You probably have to solve a relevant problem in a novel way.
\end{itemize}
Need inspiration?
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\subsection*{The Process}
At first, you will probably start working for a professor.
A few ideas to get started:
A few ideas to get you started:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Convert your bachelor/master thesis into a proper publication.
\item Convert your bachelor's or master's thesis into a proper publication.
You already have something and
it gets you started with publishing.
\item Read a lot.
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@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ However, this is a contract between you and your advisor.
You are free to change it
and we encourage you read carefully and to negotiate.
In rare cases,
this leads to conflict with your advisor.
Be glad, you found out already!
this can lead to conflict with your advisor.
Be glad that you found out early!
\checkitem{Looked into doctoral agreement stuff}
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\checkitem{Officially accepted as PhD candidate by department}
For further reading, we can recommend a few books.
For further reading, here are a few books that we recommend.
\begin{itemize}
\item\enquote{A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science}
by Peter J. Feibelman (partly more focussed on US research system but still worth reading it)
\item\enquote{A PhD Is Not Enough! -- A Guide to Survival in Science}
by Peter J. Feibelman (partly more focussed on the US research system but still worth reading)
\item\enquote{Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day}
by Joan Bolker (give some useful tipps on how to get started with writing)
by Joan Bolker (gives some useful tipps on getting started with writing)
\item\enquote{Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering}
by Richard M. Reis (fairly expensive but should be a good advisor on deciding whether to aim for a career in science (professorship) or not; was recommended by a professor in 2016's UbiComp Doctoral School)