Shannon Roberts and Edward Cole are research assistants here at UW Madison. They came in on Monday and we got to ask them questions about grad school and research, which I personally liked more than watching a movie. Although they mentioned a lot, there were a few things that I personally liked.
Edward, although he tended to go off on tangents and confused the he!! outa me, he drew diagrams that helped me understand more of what he was going at.
One side was a square and it was cut in to two triangles going up from left to right. On the top there was the word, management, on the bottom there was the word technical, with an arrow pointing from technical to management. On the left of this square diagram, there was an arrow pointing up, with the words, money, education, and time next to it. basically what I got from it was the more time you put into your education the less technical things you will do and the more managemental things you will do. The more managemental things you do, the more money you make. This I understood before Edward drew the diagram, but seeing it really helped me realize that this is true.
I really didn't know what to think about the things they were talking about. But as they went on I either had More questions or became more confused. Some things that they made me wonder was about the tests needed to go into graduate school. They mentioned certain tests were necessary for engineering grad school, but they did not provide a lot of useful information on it. I also wish they spoke more about what they themselves were working on,because I feel that would have helped more if they gave us their own story or more of their story. Maybe that is just me.
Like I said, the one thing I really took from it was the diagram, which I will post as soon as my scanner decides to work once more.
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