Posted by llrrrpp on September 2, 2006, at 22:49:11
In reply to Re: Approval, and anxiety, and being Good Enough, posted by Phillipa on September 2, 2006, at 22:32:19
Yankees... So foreign to me, yet- I think we're going to get along just fine. As long as they don't mind me saying y'all every once in a while ;o)
Phillipa, you are absolutely right about the grades not being important. This is the one thing that has kept me sane in grad school. I don't need to get an A in statistics. What I need to do is get a B, and do a bunch of better things with my time, like research, teaching, playing violin, sucking up to my professors, finding more fellowships, publishing, writing, publishing, writing, publishing, writing, publishing.
I heard of one very respected scientist in my field who sends pretty sloppy papers to be peer-reviewed for publication. If the reviewers like the experiment, they will suggest ways to revise the writing. If they don't like the experiment, no amount of perfect writing will save the study...
-ll
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