/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11993639
> Spend the night on a project.
> Finish it in time.
> Have better grade than the cucks who spent 2 weeks on it.

>>11993820
you gotta be pretty clever to pull that off

>>11993639
>usually get projects done early
>spend the extra time helping classmates
>one week fall behind
>desperately trying to catch up but stuck on a tricky part
>a classmate hands me his part of the code that works
>tell him it's too much
>he says that I deserve it after helping him through his work
>end up taking it
>we both get good grades on the project

>>11994027
Dunno man,I've found I can pull better grades when I work less on a project. The last time I worked on a project for a long time, I started to overthink every question and the answers I gave i the end were off topic.

>>11993820
lel, this is how I did every single uni assignment. I procrastinate until the last few hours, or so, start it, complete it with ~20 minutes to due date / bedtime and submit or hand it in when I wake up. Very rarely have I ever felt my work quality would go up if I did it earlier, and I never missed an assignment

>>11993639
>shares confidential research with a stranger
wat

>>11994077
you'd be surprised. profs are desperate to talk to anyone about their research. if you need letters of recommendation to do grad school, the easiest way to get them is to ask a couple of your profs about their research once or twice and they will do it for you no problem

>>11994077
He's just a chill guy I guess

>cite some dude's work all throughout your paper
>he actually gives a talk on this topic next week at your institute
Neat

>>11994266
Did you tell him how you cited him?

>Looking for PhD
>Email about 40 different professors
>Most ignore me
>About 10 give me links to the admissions office webpage
>Another 2 tell me they'd love to take me but don't have any funding
>One literally tells me he has a place with funding & to come in for an interview next week
>Got a fully funded place by accident
Life is weird like that

>submit paper
>referee is actually interested and knowledgeable about topic
>gives 6 full pages of suggestions for paper
>put "thanks to the referee for many helpful suggestions" in paper

>>11993820
Happened to me recently on a databases course in computer science.My group only started the work like 3 days before It was due but we got the best grade only because we made a database that wasn't about the topic recomended by our teacher (hospital databases, we did about dentists), actually made the effort to go to a dentist office to see how they organize their data and we made a shitty app simulation on powerpoint that was interactive.
Our report was really rushed and only like 10 pages while other groups had really long tryhard reports but our teacher literally didn't give a shit, he looked fucking bored seeing everyones presentations, while we actually made something different and functional.

>>11993639
That never happens.
You must have been dreaming or something.

>>11993639
Pretty big science boner moment:
>my PhD defense
>one of the committee members in her opening statement says that [insert famous professor with h-index through the roof] has a slide on my work in the introduction of his standard invited presentation

Another one:
>get paper to review
>cites 6 of my papers
>in the appropriate context and displaying clear understanding of the work and its nuances

Last one:
>first time at a huge conference
>nervously standing at my poster
>lots of people walking by, few stopping
>some old guy asks for the tour through the work
>I glance at his name tag and realize it's one of the founders of the field that I work in
>he's super nice and engaging, loves the work
>after half an hour he leaves but then comes back bringing with him a bunch of other big shots and they hang around for another hour or so
After that my papers doubled in citations in around 4 months

>>11997210
Not OP but I get requests for articles of mine that are paywalled all the time, and always oblige. All I have to do is click a button and if I'm lucky I'll end up with a few extra citations.

>>11997244
Is it true you gain nothing but exposure from being in paywalled journals?

>>11998095
Kind of. It just happens that the most prestigious journals (nature, science, pnas, etc) are paywalled. Aside from that, it costs a little less money to publish in paywall journals, since open access journals generally charge a lot to offset lost revenue from subscriptions.

>>11994027
Not really, you "only" need to truly focus on something and be inspired to do it properly

>>11996140
kek, I've included this exact line but it was sarcasm because the referee was a fucking retard who didn't know the difference between atoms and molecules