Da’s Entropy

Thanks to Al’s organization, many students in our department got to meet with Dr. Bose, the founder of Bose Corporation, and a very wise person. We chatted with him on various topics and viewed a demo on one of Bose’s recent products, a revolutionary car suspension system, and I encourage all of you to take a look at—it is simply fantastic!

And my laziness allows me only to write a few of the points that Dr. Bose made:

• MIT is one of the largest employer in Massachusetts.
  • As a large organization, it suffers from politics, which is everywhere in academia, industry, …
• Work takes most of the time in life. Work on something you are really excited at!
  • Have you bag packed. If you find a workplace unpleasant. Make a change.
• The worst job is the job that earns you money (only).
• Research is a kind of intellectual stumbling. However, this stumbling process cannot be taught, and can only be learned during the process.
  • When people write about their results, they usually take the direct route.
  • Al commented that this is a problem that faced by many new graduate students, who knew how to solve well structured problems from textbook, but don’t know how to get started in research.
  • It is not a bad thing to get further from the goal during the stumbling process, as long as you learn something.