PhD

Khan Academy is extra bona fide now.

(If there is a more appropriate community to post this, let me know.)

I have electronics and digital design/verification background (MSc and some industry experience). As in the title, I am interested in learning and lately I got particularly interested in formal verification and started reading books, watching tutorials, on top of applying it at work. I really would like to learn more, participate to its advancement and contribute even slightest. I also enjoy academic environment. This is why I am considering a PhD. However leaving my job for full-time PhD means significant paycut even if I get into a funded PhD, also I am here on visa and many programs require you to pay the difference between foreign student price and domestic student price out of your packet, after receiving the funding. So leaving my job is likely not an option. I thought about doing a PhD part-time on top of my job. It will be very time and energy consuming, but I think I can take that. My bigger concern is, part-time PhD will take long time (6-8 years) and field is ever-changing, I am afraid my thesis may become irrelevant by the time I finish it. Also what I hear is that, if you do it part-time, you will not get the best subjects since professors would like to provide better supervision to and quick return from a full-time student. So I am hesitant about a PhD, even though it was something I was thinking of since a very young age. What do you think about a PhD, do you have any advice, some opportunity or downside which I did not consider? And if not with a PhD, how do I learn and research more? Reading and taking online courses are always options, but the problem is without any supervision, clear goal and guidance, I am sure I will get sidetracked and it may not be very fruitful.

I am happy to announce that there's a new PhD-centric community hosted on Lemm.ee: @phd

Do you have a #PhD, or are you interested in getting one? Are you on #Lemmy, or are you thinking about checking it out?

Come join us, and help us build an open, inclusive, and supportive community, where topics related to PhD degrees, research, and academic activities can be discussed, shared, and reflected upon.

https://lemm.ee/c/phd

Welcome to c/PhD, a Lemmy community dedicated to everything related to PhDs!

As many of you here, I migrated from Reddit some time ago, and just before leaving I had discovered r/PhD. Seeing that there was no PhD-centric community on Lemmy, I decided to create it.

The general idea is to construct an open, inclusive, and supportive space, where topics related to PhD degrees, research, and academic activities can be discussed, shared, and reflected upon. Recommendations, personal experiences, as well as questions regarding pursuing a PhD are welcome, but please be sure to remain civil, adhere to the Lemm.ee server rules, and the community rules posted in the sidebar!

I encourage everyone who joins this community to:

• foster an open attitude towards other users,
• proactively seek to acquire and share new knowledge,
• respect your own and other's work,
• nurture and profess integrity in your research, and
• be willing to learn from others, and to help others learn.

These are not commandments, just my personal perspective on what I would like to see this community uphold and value.

I understand that in order to get traction and jump-start a community, quality posts have to be published, and meaningful interactions have to be encouraged. Let's all work together on this, and hopefully in time we'll be able to grow this nascent community.

This is the first time I moderate any kind of community, and I will likely mess things up. Please be tolerant and patient with me and others, and let's try to build a community we can all be proud of.

Best,

u/babetoduarte