It's Been a Good Life

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• Part of my duties as a research student was to prepare a seminar on my research. I had to explain the nature of the problem, then go on to explain what I was doing and why, what I hoped to accomplish, and so on. When I was done, I expected to field searching questions from the floor. Other people in the department were supposed to attend, and the idea was that no one was to become too ingrown, that each student should be exposed to all the other currents permeating the Columbia chemistry department. That was the theory, but many people found seminars frustrating. Those who lectured on the problem seemed never to grasp the level of ignorance of those not working on it—or were afraid to show anything less than complete erudition. In five minutes, usually, the lecture had left his audience b... (查看原文)

  鲁智深 2012-10-25 12:36:43