美国犹他大学的助理教授 Matt Might 说:每年秋天,我都要向新一批博士生解释什么是博士学位。光用语言很难描述,所以我用图片解释。第一步,想像一个包含了人类所有知识的圈Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge当你小学毕业的时候,你知道了一点By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little当你高中毕业的时候,你知道的多了一些By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more有了学士学位之后,你有了一项专业With a bachelor's degree, you gain a specialty一个硕士学位深化了你的专业A master's degree deepens that specialty阅读研究论文能让你触碰到人类知识的边缘Reading research papers takes you to the edge of human knowledge当你站在边缘的时候,你专注于:Once you're at the boundary, you focus你在边
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