There's a certain emotional/mental maturity that you achieve in graduate school by accepting that most problems don't have solutions. We spend about 20 years of our life in a highly structured environment that discourages us from embracing difficult problems (you get more "points" if you spend your time doing the things you already understand during a test situation).
I'm not criticizing your sentiment, I'm going through the same process myself. I think the point of a good PhD program is to force your brain to cross the threshold to where you consider "impossible" problems worthwhile, and "easy" or "possible" problems not worth your time.
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I think we can statistically reject any "likelihood" that we solve this labor homework before Christmas.
There's a certain emotional/mental maturity that you achieve in graduate school by accepting that most problems don't have solutions. We spend about 20 years of our life in a highly structured environment that discourages us from embracing difficult problems (you get more "points" if you spend your time doing the things you already understand during a test situation).
I'm not criticizing your sentiment, I'm going through the same process myself. I think the point of a good PhD program is to force your brain to cross the threshold to where you consider "impossible" problems worthwhile, and "easy" or "possible" problems not worth your time.
Just keep up the good work and you will do fine. Also, see my post of today under your "Bleh" blog.
I'm beginning to hate blogs with no new posts on them......
I'm with Casey.
try to play hangman...
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