Busy

[danalwyn]

I've been busy, although what with I don't quite remember anymore.

Sometimes it bothers me that I'm a fourth year graduate student and, for the first time, I now know how to do an analysis. There should be a class where they teach you this interesting, and practical, stuff. But there isn't, so I guess we just pick it up on our own.

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[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

I've been busy, although what with I don't quite remember anymore.

It's a relief to me to hear others say this. We can't all have been abducted by aliens and our memories altered.

But there isn't, so I guess we just pick it up on our own.

There are some things that I only gained a full appreciation for through working with them *after* graduation. In some cases, several years after. I don't think the learning process ever stops.

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

There are times though when this entire paradigm of "Publish your paper now, we'll tell you how you were actually supposed to do things later" that just grates on me.

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

So it's not just a case of analysis techniques being in a state of flux? That's incredibly annoying. For what it's worth, I once reanalysed and rewrote a paper five times for four different sets of reviewers. First time: conventional analysis. Second time: different conventional set of analysis for a different reviewer. Third time: New method of analysis, which is becoming the standard. Fourth time: Revisions to please a new reviewer. Fifth time? More revisions and total structural reorganization to please a yet another reviewer. This is what happens when there's a staff shuffle and your review committee changes. You're not alone in your suffering.