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I'm not sure what your ideal of a good PhD student is; there's no measurable level of "good enough" that once met allows you to do a bunch of other things. It's supposed to be an all-consuming, single-focus period of intense research and knowledge generation.


> It's supposed to be an all-consuming, single-focus period of intense research and knowledge generation.

This is mostly a recent phenomenon. Definitely not true for many I knew, nor of their professors when they were students.

Lots of people got a PhD by just being disciplined and working 8-5 on it in the usual time frames. I wager many still do.




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