Reflections on the first 1.5 years of a physics PhD
Introduction There are two viewpoints: big picture and day-to-day. For the past 1.5 years, I have lived in the day-to-day. I constantly felt like I needed to do some homework set, fix code, run code, learn some cool-but-not-so-general theory, etc. Living in this day-to-day mindset has impaired my ability to reflect. Reflection generates feedback to…