For fresh students, the difficulty and direction of a starting research problem can be either a career boost or deadly career killer. That is, if the problem is very difficult to work on, plus the advisor holds very little background knowledge, the student will most likely suffer from slow progress or even enter wrong directions.
asherliu
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5 years ago
For fresh students, the difficulty and direction of a starting research problem can be either a career boost or deadly career killer. That is, if the problem is very difficult to work on, plus the advisor holds very little background knowledge, the student will most likely suffer from slow progress or even enter wrong directions.