/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9186495

it would be really great if i could. even ten hours a week of pure concentration would be incredible.

60 hrs/wk leads to burnout. This prof sounds like a douche. I get reading scientific journals to further knowledge for a while every day, but humans need to have time for things outside of school/work or they become bitter, and their performance degrades as a result.

>>9186533
Note that he didn't mean that all those 60 hours should be spent reading.

Dunno 60 hours a week is not that much in itself, but I would never be able to handle studying/learning that much. But then this is how chemists are, either insane lab rats or chill to the point of almost not giving a fuck.

I do agree with him that thesis students don't read enough.

>>9186546
I know. I'm saying that I agree with him that his students should be reading from the journals daily, but disagree that they should be in the lab 50+ hrs/wk every single week on top of that.

>>9186495
probably 20 or 30, any 'free' time I have I spend drinking to kill the pain of it all.

>>9186569
Just drink and read. That's what I do with medical journals.

>>9186495
>>9186546
>>9186556
For what I've seen 60 hours isn't a stretch for a chemist, so of those guys sleep in the labs waiting for reactions to finish, it's quite a slow process. For physicists I wouldn't say that's too far off either, experimentalists require a lot of time to develop a good apparatus to run tests and then they have to clean and analyze the data, theoreticians on the other hand usually hit brick wall after brick wall trying to figure their problems out which will usually result in 30+ hours of journal/text book reading and writing at the bare minimum. Couple all this with the time it takes to actually write a paper and it's gonna consume the bulk of your time.

>>9186511
>pure concentration
1. Some people claim the brain is a muscle.
2. Downtime is probably included in those hours.

>>9186626
fuckin nerds