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2012年,我完成了在麻省理工学院(MIT)的博士研究,这时,我的职业生涯走到了一个十字路口。此前我攻读研究所是希望能够找到一份学术界的工作,但是当我拿到学位时,这种梦想似乎已经和现实相差甚远。我精疲力竭,甚至无法让自己去寻找博士后的岗位,更不用说考虑在实验室待一辈子了。同时,对于剩下的人生应该做什么,我已经无法做出客观的决定,我需要给自己放个假。我通常会为比较极端的选择所吸引,因此我在想:“在化学博士之上还能有什么呢,不如去穿越太平洋
In 2012, I completed a doctoral research at MIT, at which point my career was at a crossroads. My previous study at the institute was hoping to find a job in academia, but when I got my degree, that dream seemed far from reality. I was so exhausted that I could not even find myself looking for a postdoctoral position, let alone thinking about staying in a lab for a lifetime. At the same time, I have been unable to make an objective decision about what to do for the rest of my life. I need to give myself a break. I'm usually attracted to the more extreme choices, so I was thinking: ”What else can be done on the PhD? Better to travel across the Pacific