Y'all:
Just for grins, one might consider that anyone might be better off asking
questions from the heart of one's intellectual passion rather than any
canned ones aimed at "getting" a mere "job." Any institution that would fail
to hire you because your passion didn't match their mission would not be a
good place to work, thus a waste of one's life, and one that failed to hire
you because you asked canned questions would not be doing you a disservice,
for pretty much the same reasons. If you don't know this already, I suspect
that either the degree-granting institution you came from swindled you or
that you fudged your way to a certificate rather than embraced, yea, gone
way beyond, the "content."
Oh well, if you insist upon tricking them into giving you a job, you might
say something like "Based on what I've told you about my experience to date,
do you (examiners) believe, and should I believe, that our association in
the future will be one of mutual growth?" Hell, I don't know . . . My advice
is to refuse to take any advice, but go with your intellectual gut. That,
alone, will make you stand out from the canned recitations. Still, if the
can fits, open it.
WT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyla Dahlin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:27 AM
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] 5 minutes to help the ESA Student Section
Hello, fellow Ecologgers-
In an effort to add helpful content to the ESA Student Section
website<http://www.esa.org/students/section/> and
in response to many informal queries, we would like to develop a page of
suggested questions that future grad students should ask when considering
graduate programs and that graduate students should ask when considering
post-docs or faculty jobs. These can be questions you always ask,
questions
you wish you had asked, or questions no one ever thinks to ask but really
should. If you would like to contribute, please take a moment to fill out
the 'form' below and send responses to *[email protected]*
by
February 16. I will compile the results and send another email when
they're
up on the web. Please forward this to other folks that might like to
contribute.
Thanks for your time!
~kyla
*WHEN CONSIDERING GRADUATE PROGRAMS*
__ pertains mostly to Masters programs
__ pertains mostly to PhD programs
__ either/both
QUESTION(S):
*WHEN CONSIDERING POST-DOCS OR TEACHING POSITIONS*
__ pertains mostly to post-docs
__ pertains mostly to teaching at a research university
__ pertains mostly to teaching at a 4-year college
__ all of the above
QUESTION(S):
__ yes, you may include my name (and affiliation if I provide it) on the
website with my suggested question(s)
--
Kyla Marie Dahlin
Ph.D. candidate
Department of Biology | Stanford University
Department of Global Ecology | Carnegie Institution
www.stanford.edu/~kmd35
"In an earlier transformative era in American history, President John F.
Kennedy challenged our nation to land a man on the moon within 10 years.
Eight years and two months later, Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar
surface. The average age of the systems engineers cheering on Apollo 11
from
the Houston control room that day was 26, which means that their average
age
when President Kennedy announced the challenge was 18." - Al Gore
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