The guy cites this Forbes article as motivation: "Getting a better GPA ... is the focus. It ...doesn’t lead to working effectively with others. ... Traditional education is concerned with staying in context ... . Innovation is ... about crossing boundaries, and digging deeper into problems and their solutions from a variety of angles." It continues in that vein for many sentences more.
It's no news for anyone who has done any amount of research in science or engineering that research is a team effort, that one has to work across subject boundaries, and that it isn't at all risk-free. That's why nowadays undergraduates are expected to work in research labs from the sophomore year onwards. It is impossible to get into any serious PhD program without research experience.
I'm not sure why the blog author quotes a Forbes article full of non-truths, but we wish that he gets his project off the ground, so that he can see what a university is really like.
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The guy cites this Forbes article as motivation: "Getting a better GPA ... is the focus. It ...doesn’t lead to working effectively with others. ... Traditional education is concerned with staying in context ... . Innovation is ... about crossing boundaries, and digging deeper into problems and their solutions from a variety of angles." It continues in that vein for many sentences more.
It's no news for anyone who has done any amount of research in science or engineering that research is a team effort, that one has to work across subject boundaries, and that it isn't at all risk-free. That's why nowadays undergraduates are expected to work in research labs from the sophomore year onwards. It is impossible to get into any serious PhD program without research experience.
I'm not sure why the blog author quotes a Forbes article full of non-truths, but we wish that he gets his project off the ground, so that he can see what a university is really like.