{"id":618,"date":"2017-08-01T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/?p=618"},"modified":"2018-11-08T10:57:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:57:48","slug":"starting-up-a-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/starting-up-a-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting up a PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"
After hearing how it ends, it\u2019s your right, dear reader of the ArcTrain blog, to ask how it begins. After Lera\u2019s text (https:\/\/arctrain.de\/finishing-up-a-phd-thesis\/<\/a>), I\u2019m now worried that I will not give you a text with as much wisdom. But after all, I\u2019m only in the beginning of this PhD, maybe I will reach this point of erudition after 2 years and a half. \u201cHow to start a PhD? <\/i>\u201d This would be a good question, and there are already a lot of articles all over the Internet to answer this question. The very existence of this articles shows how much of a struggle this phase seems to be all over the world. Nevertheless it\u2019s a bit early for me to answer this question, I will leave this point to professors.<\/p>\n Jeetendra working on the plan for his phd schedule for the next 3 years during the ArcTrain retreat in the Harz mountains.<\/span> Here, the question would be : \u201cHow does a PhD start in ArcTrain?<\/i> \u201d, or, since objectivity does not really exist, \u201cHow did I start my PhD in ArcTrain?<\/i>\u201d. I still guess and hope that the experiences as an ArcTrainee are not so different between the two cohorts, but can\u2019t talk for the first one. I could tell you about the scientific start of every PhD studies: The pile of research articles to read, the review articles to scrutinize, and the discussions with the supervisor and the team to choose and start the project. Let\u2019s focus on the human side of the PhD studies.<\/p>\n But before, let\u2019s give you a glimpse of who your humble servant is : I am born in France, studied in Switzerland and currently am at the Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI) in Bremerhaven, working about Sea Ice Modeling (to be excessively short, you can read Mischa\u2019s text for more details: https:\/\/arctrain.de\/what-is-a-model\/<\/a> ). I studied physics, meaning that when I arrived at AWI, except the fact the ocean was mainly made of water, I didn\u2019t know anything about oceanography \u2013 \u201cThe salt is that important in the climate system!?<\/i> \u201d. But all of these are new exciting things to learn! .<\/p>\n<\/a>
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