That’s an old game. My first PhD advisor did nothing with my thesis chapters but mark grammatical errors in red pen and hand them back. If your advisor isn’t doing anything else for you now, he certainly won’t do anything for you after you’ve graduated. You may need to get a new advisor.
Oh, yes, for the case of learning your area. However, the name of an advisor is important for joining the academic good-folks network, and so is the superficial appearance of a paper looking correct for the conferences and journals you want to send it to.
I dislike it all tremendously, but if I could tell my younger self something to maybe do better in a research career, it would be to pay more attention to back-scratching and ingratiation.
As an older self, though, I may say that if you like studying something and like making certain kinds of things, then just do it, rather than try to first get into the research community and then do what you like. Do what you like, right now. Each firefly will flash for its last time, and you never know when.
My PhD supervisor keeps taking what I sent him (Maths Ideas in some pretty sketched out latex.) And LLM-ifying them and sending them back to me.
Sure the result looks, superficially, a lot more like the sort of thing that might appear in an academic publication.
But I don’t find having my own ideas garbled and then spouted back at me to be particularly helpful.
That’s an old game. My first PhD advisor did nothing with my thesis chapters but mark grammatical errors in red pen and hand them back. If your advisor isn’t doing anything else for you now, he certainly won’t do anything for you after you’ve graduated. You may need to get a new advisor.
Oh, yes, for the case of learning your area. However, the name of an advisor is important for joining the academic good-folks network, and so is the superficial appearance of a paper looking correct for the conferences and journals you want to send it to.
I dislike it all tremendously, but if I could tell my younger self something to maybe do better in a research career, it would be to pay more attention to back-scratching and ingratiation.
As an older self, though, I may say that if you like studying something and like making certain kinds of things, then just do it, rather than try to first get into the research community and then do what you like. Do what you like, right now. Each firefly will flash for its last time, and you never know when.