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My struggle with structure and validation during PhD
As I spend time in my PhD, I realize that it gets more unstructured, more open as time passes. Several times, this has come up in conversations with other PhD students. There is coursework in the beginning. Time flies by and yet in the moment, the days seem long. There is so much reading going…
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The Theory-Data Fit and My Experience With It
As a PhD student, I have been cautioned several times to not try to force-fit data into theory. The researcher’s probable site of a slippery slope: the theory-data fit. I have never truly got a sense of what it meant until some time back. I thought I would benefit from the mental move of breaking…
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On Summer Internships and Dissertations in MBA
This Friday I received an email from my professor at XISS, where I had pursued my MBA in Human Resource Management, inviting me to conduct a 75 minute session. The intent of the session was one where I could help students understand how to approach their Summer Internships in a manner that allows them to…
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Reflecting on Feynman’s ‘Science which is Not a Science’
I am reading ‘The Pleasure of Finding Things Out’- which is a collection of short works of Richard Feynman- a widely known and celebrated physicist. In my childhood, I heard stories about him from my Jethu (paternal uncle), a Professor in physics and a lover of physics. Stories about Feynman’s lectures fascinated and drew me…