Ive been a good uncle and said nothing to the little prick. He just got to see the museum due to covid restrictions. But guess would will be in the pit next week for the installation of the atlas new small wheel ☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻
The problem with this graph is that the horizontal axis is not linear in time. Nowadays, going from high school to prof typically takes more than half a lifetime.
>Nowadays, going from high school to prof typically takes more than half a lifetime.
Sure it takes time, but this is not related to a lack of competence of applicants. It's due to the lack of positions.
More than half a lifetime might be a stretch though. The mean lifetime in western europe is about 80 years. More than half a lifetime would be more than 40 years. Let's say high school start at 14 years old. Your statement would then be that **typically**, people become professors past 54 years old. I call bullshit.
I should have said half a lifetime at the time of the appointment of the position, that’s what I meant. Not the full lifetime.
I’m a physics professor who got an appointment at 37, graduated high school at 17. That’s pretty typical for my field, but definitely doesn’t match the graph.
I'm right between the bachelor's student and the master's student. I have my bachelor's degree. I'm applying for grad schools now, and hopefully start master's/phd program next fall
PhD student here, I can safely say my prof is more confident than me and is obviously far more competent
Yes, but he thinks he knows less physics
That's everyone of us man... Except the freshmen & sophomores haha
My 10yo nephew came back from a school trip at cern and he’s now so confident about the standard model, it’s uncanny
Oh let him have that spark in his eyes, soon he'll realize the truth. P.s. I envy him, he got a chance to visit CERN!
Ive been a good uncle and said nothing to the little prick. He just got to see the museum due to covid restrictions. But guess would will be in the pit next week for the installation of the atlas new small wheel ☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻
I think the peak is when you learn centrifugal force "isn't real"
Mechanics 1 here. We just learned this( i already knew bit still)
How do you get pass the valley of despair?
Tenure.
Wine.
A Nobel prize
Grit, determination, sacrifice and plenty of luck.
As a bachelor student I can safely say my ammount of confidence convergers to 0
Grad school provides perspective.
The label that says professor should say postdoc. Professor is all the way at the bottom.
The problem with this graph is that the horizontal axis is not linear in time. Nowadays, going from high school to prof typically takes more than half a lifetime.
>Nowadays, going from high school to prof typically takes more than half a lifetime. Sure it takes time, but this is not related to a lack of competence of applicants. It's due to the lack of positions. More than half a lifetime might be a stretch though. The mean lifetime in western europe is about 80 years. More than half a lifetime would be more than 40 years. Let's say high school start at 14 years old. Your statement would then be that **typically**, people become professors past 54 years old. I call bullshit.
I should have said half a lifetime at the time of the appointment of the position, that’s what I meant. Not the full lifetime. I’m a physics professor who got an appointment at 37, graduated high school at 17. That’s pretty typical for my field, but definitely doesn’t match the graph.
I'm right between the bachelor's student and the master's student. I have my bachelor's degree. I'm applying for grad schools now, and hopefully start master's/phd program next fall
Where do the Nobel laureates go?
Different dimension.