I am a planner. In fact, although I have been a graduate student for three years, I can live quickly, so I think it is necessary to make a good plan. It is inevitable that someone will have to work, go abroad, take what certificates and so on. And time is more precious, so planning is particularly important. In these three years, there are many things to do, such as publishing a paper and going through several reviews. Generally, it takes 1-2 months, and many of them take 6 months to release. So submit the manuscript in advance. Some people wait too late to reply. This is just an example, and there are many other things to be arranged.

The main steps and contents of the project: first, the boss chooses or finds the project himself (it is more troublesome to find it himself, so it is better to find a few for the boss or experienced people to see). Among them, the problems that need to be paid attention to are whether the laboratory has the conditions of experimental instruments to meet the needs of related research, determination, analysis and separation, the materials needed for experiments are not easy to obtain, experimental materials and so on. After selecting the topic, we should do novelty retrieval and subject research to see the research progress of the subject. We should have a preliminary idea for future research. We should treat China literature, especially non-core publications, with a skeptical attitude, which can only be a common sense understanding. Real research should have enough English materials to improve our English ability. If this step is not done well, it will be more tragic to redefine the subject later! (There are examples among students) If your research results can certainly be studied, it is necessary to carry out some preliminary experiments, first to understand the experiment actually, and second to understand the difficulty of your own experiment as a whole. Then, according to the established plan, the research is started in an all-round way, and the final stage is to write a thesis defense. It looks simple, but there are many things to do.

The general arrangement is as follows: (individual circumstances are different)

First semester: learn about familiar topics and study courses.

The second semester: refer to the research, determine the subject, be familiar with the experiment properly, and study the course.

The third semester: start research and get fully familiar with it.

The fourth semester: starting to publish papers, the main experimental stage.

The fifth semester: supplement the final experiment and publish research papers.

Sixth semester: writing thesis defense

Of course, the specific scheme of the experiment should be very careful.

Matters needing attention in the research process:

◆ Summarize the processing data regularly.

Personally, I think that in order to form a good habit, we need to summarize the experiment of the day every day and make a preliminary analysis. If the experiment takes several days to complete, we should analyze it at once. If you do research for a long time, it is best to keep a research diary, so that no matter whether the experiment is carried out or not, Tuo is well documented! And writing a paper can be much easier!

◆ To design and handle experiments, it is necessary to do more experiments or do experiments well in a short time, and it is necessary to adopt good experimental design methods, which will definitely get twice the result with half the effort! Of course, using software is also important. The most basic ones are word, excel and PowerPoint in office. Secondly, Scinote and Reference manager are used to manage documents, and SPSS and SAS are used to process data. Of course, it is more convenient to use Excel for general processing, but some complicated ones still need to be learned, such as drawing molecular formulas and three-dimensional effect Chem. Office, chemical window, etc. , calculating Mathematica, modeling Mathematica, etc. In fact, some functions are only available in large software. Not just a few pieces of software. Anyway, you should study hard! Extensive knowledge!

◆ Timely supplement documents.

The world is changing every day, and we need to constantly supplement new literature. Secondly, the experiment may be quite different from our own imagination. At this time, we need to consult some documents for research, and sometimes we have to make great changes to the plan!

◆ The concept of communication

Now that the network is more and more convenient, we must have the idea of communication. Nowadays, most of those professors are difficult to communicate because of confidentiality or advancement, and there is no atmosphere for topic discussion. So, I think communication is very important. The present situation is actually an important aspect that restricts the improvement of graduate students' scientific research level. Usually pay attention to communicate with classmates, teachers and teachers. Of course, BBS is also a good way. There are many experts in the world, and everyone has advantages. In fact, everyone has advantages, so communication is also a learning process, which is very important!