With the progress of the times and the development of schools, more and more schools require graduate students to publish periodical papers before graduation, and they must be the first author or tutor, and the better the school, the higher the requirements for periodical papers.
Take Bian Xiao as an example. At present, Bian Xiao is studying humanities and social sciences in a third-rate 985 school. Our school requires graduate students to publish a CSSCI journal paper.
Many students may not be very clear about this abbreviation. To make a horizontal comparison, the assessment standard of professors in our college is only five CSSCI papers in three years. Now you know how difficult this graduation requirement is.
Not to mention that some good journals have a review cycle of one or two years, while the total duration of graduate students is three years. A senior in Bian Xiao contributed to a good journal, and was hired only two years after graduation. She has been tossing and turning for more than three years.
According to Bian Xiao, more and more schools have begun to implement this policy step by step, and some schools even adopted the last elimination system. Some graduate students are either postponed or not certified because they can't complete the periodical thesis task of the school. Therefore, as prospective graduate students or students who plan to take the postgraduate entrance examination, they must be psychologically prepared to work hard for small papers.
Small paper pressure
The second mountain is a dissertation, which is also commonly known as a big thesis.
What's so difficult about the thesis? First, the number of words should be 30,000-50,000. You mean I can write 30 thousand? Children's shoes, if your classmates are all fifty or sixty thousand words, do you really think you won't be scolded by the teacher?
Secondly, the procedures are complicated. Compared with undergraduates, the school pays more attention to graduate thesis, which will be posted online for everyone to see after all. Therefore, there are many more procedures for graduate thesis, such as opening report, mid-term exam, pre-defense, formal defense and so on. This will be recorded and accompanied by your life.
Finally, there is another key point of my hard-earned dissertation, that is, anonymous external audit by experts, that is, to remove the personal and tutor information of your thesis and send it to the teachers of the same university or a better university for review. If you fail, I'm sorry, you have to postpone it. What's worse, you may not be able to graduate directly. Don't underestimate this point. Every year, students fall on it, thus wasting several years of youth.
Large paper pressure
The third mountain is employment.
Every graduate student who wants to graduate can feel heavy pressure.
After the enrollment expansion of graduate students, the base of graduate students is getting bigger and bigger, and the number of jobs provided by the market is far behind the speed of enrollment expansion.
Employers gradually tend to be rational in choosing graduates. Many companies say that recruiting talents pays more attention to ability and experience, and academic qualifications are just for reference. Without good internship experience, they are generally not competitive. Poor graduate students are really embarrassed to be busy with papers and internships just to find a good job.
At the same time, the limited demand for teaching and scientific research talents in colleges and universities mostly requires "doctors or above", which makes the majority of master students encounter employment embarrassment.
The pressure of graduate students can be imagined because of fierce competition and weak competitiveness.
Of course, there are still many people who find good jobs in this employment situation, which requires not only opportunities, but also excellent talents.