Recently, I took up an offer of PhD work in a university. Such kind of academic job is what I dream of doing as always. I really expect to work hard and perform excellently in my major field.

However, many professors would rather be curious about me than be interested in my research work, probably since I am a foreigner I personally think. They therefore issued many invitations for me to attend their own lectures frequently.

It should have been a good and kind idea, but I did not know why I was not intended to attend the tiresome lectures/courses. Excuse me, that is why I am pouring out all the murmurs in this discussion forum. This is, I think, mainly due to limited time a day given by God. In fact, I must repeat three tasks everyday. They are,

1, Reading papers as many that I can find as possible from day to night when I got even a little bit time, at beginning of study. This is really and only good way for me to collect and compile the fundamental knowledge for my future study.

2, Personally feeling that many lectures were beyond my understanding capability and far different from my major. May I need to have a waste of high percent valuable daytime for the futile issues in discussion? Those talks may not benefit any to my PhD research , as I understand directly.

3, Making all me efforts to proceed batch experiments in lab is core work that I understand I must do at the first stage in PhD study. Based on the evidences and data, it is able to draft your manuscripts. Moreover, it is highly interesting to compare your experimental results with the basic knowledge that I may not get from only textbooks but also from bibliographic references.

I wonder what I have done so far was correctly reasonable or not, because I am a Philosophy Disciple (PhD) in the first academic year, then growing to be Philosophy Doctor (PhD). I know this is my growth that I have to undergo, I am also eager to know more meaningful and useful answers from you, from researchgate and from the magically powerful community of our beautiful mind researchers.

Looking forward to hearing versatile and individual answers from you.