you have my respect sir. I was afraid of this process and dropped out after my first year. I do have a better salary now compared to my grad school days. But I always told myself that once I'm done with the kids and mortgage. I wanted to go back and do my PhD again. I just love thinking about science all day.

Very helpful!

american academics seem more focused on their job market and generating capital than on academics

I’m saving this for the future… currently a 3rd year undergrad

wow, academic job market is brutal

Considering the reactions in the comments sections, I’m worried about the state of professionalization in so-called hard science departments. Graduate students in my discipline are constantly taught how to interview. I thought this was common knowledge and practice across graduate programs in the US. It seems like you are doing a great service by teaching these things.

Amazing talk, thank you! I am going to start searching for jobs soon and having your insight about the procedure is going to be helpful :)

Fantastic. I am in the first year of my PhD program at MIT and was thinking similarly to how you described your early though process- thank you for sharing this perspective

Basically you need to be so smart to have time and ability to do the extra things. That’s the bottom line. Lol.

I don't even have a PhD but this was such an awesome talk and some of the points apply to general career as well. Great public speaker!

Very helpful

UofM is amazing.

State school 😅

Thank you so much for sharing this video!

On the practicing communication part, something I've liked, as someone who tends to struggle with controlling my stream of consciousness during conversation, is taking a random word generator and talking about the generated word for 2-5 minutes. I've only been doing it for a few weeks, and I've already seen improvement in the way I can distill the stream of consciousness into a cohesive message. Vinh Giang (KZbin famous communication skills teacher) suggests the practice as a way to improve the mind-mouth connection.

Great talk! Coming from a philosophy gradaute student this applies to my field to a large extent too.

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I'm an undergrad now looking to along on this path. This was so inspiring. Thank you Professor Sun!

NOT THE DEALING WITH DEPRESSION SLIDE 😭😭😭😭

Very nice one, enjoyed it.

this is fucking bullshit, you are a native speaker, this is totally a different story

Thanks for being brutally honest.

The most genuine career talk ever! Would you care to share more about the training of charisma and voice control? 😊

Thanks fort your nice lecture !

Immensely valuable. Thanks

Impressive presentation-informative and inspirational!

Thank you so much for sharing this impressive presentation!

cute！ full of love！

Very powerful video for academia application！

Like all of us, Apollo begins to cry before the final exam...

lucky to watch this video, thanks！

Everyone needs to hear the "My Story" part around 33:45.

I watched this video repeatedly before my chalk talk. Thanks to your video, I was able to get into my dream place! Thank you so much for your amazing seminar and for sharing this with the public!

Thank you so much for sharing such a great talk!

amazing presentation. thank you for sharing.

😂😊

how i wish i could really ubnderstand this stuff. any suggestion where to start?

Genuine and informative!

Thank you for sharing, this was extremely helpful!

As I am on the market for a faculty job, your talk is really helpful! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for sharing! This talk is amazingly helpful at this point in my career.

very inspirational, I recommend people rewatch it again and again, it is very thought-provoking, learnt a lot.

Although these are all true and interview process is so intense, I still see a lot of professors doing research making no sense and have no insights into the field.

Many thanks for sharing your experience.

I am preparing for the job market, and I am so grateful that KZbin recommended this video to me.

This is the best talk I've heard about the faculty job application. Thanks for sharing it!

Several strong messages here for all PhD and Postdocs

I have gone on 5 campus visits (2 in 2020, 1 in 2021, 2 in this year, after 2 years of industry in between). I can attest this talk is on point about academic positions and choosing it as a long-term career. The concept of being a visionary scholar, and the communication of a grant applicant/PI, it's rarely taught in grad school classes, a good mentor might teach you those things, but not every mentor.

Thank you for sharing nice talk! The introduction about energy landscape is impressive. I've experienced similar feelings about the mystery of its vertical and horizontal axis. I'm wondering how does the "reaction coordinate" look like or how do we define the entropy of non-equilibrium configurations. In my understanding of your talk, the intermediate states during a reaction can be regarded as quasi equilibrium states, so we can define entropy-related quantities, such as grand potential or free energy.

Thank you for sharing this amazing talk. I wish I could have watched this during my PhD training...