Research: with a professor or at a summer program?

DigitalDad
Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:25:44 +0000

worriedmomucb:

the process of publishing can be an educational one

Absolutely.
I know of a (now PhD) who was not well-mentored in that regard. Spent years running lab experiments in a very “sexy”, fully funded field - but was never mentored to make sure he was also publishing along the way because that was the measure by which the job market was assessing all the fresh PhDs.

So, I’m not discouraging publishing. But it ought to be for the reasons you stated, not in hopes that it might look better as a résumé item at HS level, vs. an (unpublished) long-term research commitment.