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已有 16977 次阅读 2011-9-10 12:21 |个人分类:研究生教育|系统分类:教学心得| 研究生教育, 教师节

教师节我给学生“送礼”

（王德华）

虽然也多次给学生说，教师节不要破费，根本不需要。学生很热心，老师很被动。有心的话，给老师一个短信、一个邮件、一个贺卡足以。每年在这个日子里学生还能记着老师，尤其是毕业多年的学生在忙碌得连季节都不清的当儿还能记着给老师送来一声问候，老师那刚换上秋装的身子早已经热乎乎的了。老师有所图吗？有。老师图的是自己事业的传承，自己桃李的丰收笑容。但是，我办公室里还是充满了花的芬芳。

周五的组会与研究组中秋Party一起进行。中午读到施一公教授的博文“如何做一名优秀的博士生：(一)时间的付出”，很是感慨，借机给学生强烈推荐，并给学生阅读了他引用的蒲慕明先生的一段话：【The most important thing is what I consider to be sufficient amount of time and effort in the lab work. I mentioned that about 60 hr working time per week is what I consider the minimal time an average successful young scientist in these days has to put into the lab work……I suggest that everyone puts in at least 6 hr concentrated bench work and 2+ hr reading and other research-related activity each day. Reading papers and books should be done mostly after work.” (我认为最重要的事情就是在实验室里的（有效）工作时间，当今一个成功的年轻科学家平均每周（必须最少）要有60小时左右的时间投入到实验室的研究工作......我建议每个人每天至少有6小时的紧张（精力集中）实验操作和两小时以上的（文献阅读）与科研直接有关的（其他活动）等。文献和书籍的阅读应该在这些工作时间之外进行)。】

实际上，当年的我们也是这样过来的。实验室- 食堂 – 宿舍，三点一线的日子过得很充实（延续了高中和大学时期的教室- 食堂 – 宿舍三点一线）。当时，没有电视，没有手机，没有网络，没有周末，几乎没有娱乐活动，生活过得很“乏味”，日子过得又确实充实。每天都有收获，每天都有思考，每天都有进步。实验记录本和阅读记录本一天天在增厚，自信和满足一天天在加强。当时周六是上班的，后来国家开始实施5天半工作制，再后来改为今天的每周5天工作制。

随着时代的发展，科技的进步，生活的变迁，时间已经成为最宝贵的财产了。网络游戏，网络大片，网络聊天…. 无休止的手机短信和聊天… …丰富多彩的娱乐活动，生活需要七彩阳光，这些都需要时间。读文献需要时间，收集数据需要时间，统计数据需要时间，写论文需要时间，听学术报告需要时间，学术讨论需要时间，写汇报需要时间，写总结需要时间，学习技术需要时间… …那么，该舍弃哪些？该实施哪些？其实既然读到了博士，脑袋里装的就不是浆糊。记得有老师将每天的事情分为四类：重要紧急的，重要不紧急的，不重要紧急的，不重要不紧急的，将这四类事情画个象限，自己就很清楚了。每天可以这样，每周也可以这样，每月、每学期、每学年都可以这样。可是，谁有时间去做呢？大家都太忙了。

每周60小时，5天工作制，每天需要12小时。上午4小时（8:00-12:00），下午4小时（2:00-6:00），晚上4小时（8:00-12:00），如果这样安排的话，每天很劳累，也很容易做到。可就是没有上网时间了，没有QQ聊天时间了，没有看大片的时间了… …读研究生这应该是最低要求。想成为优秀的研究生，想在同龄人中不掉队，这是必须的。

施一公教授回忆他的经历说 “研究生阶段后期，我的刻苦在实验室是出了名的。在纽约做博士后时期则是我这辈子最苦的两年，每天晚上做实验到半夜三点左右，回到住处躺下来睡觉时常常已是四点以后；但每天早晨八点都会被窗外纽约第一大道(First Avenue)上的汽车喧闹声吵醒，九点左右又回到实验室开始了新的一天。每天三餐都在实验室，分别在上午9点、下午3点和晚上9、10点。这样的生活节奏持续11天，从周一到第二个星期的周五，周五晚上做灰狗长途汽车回到巴尔地摩(Baltimore)的家里，周末两天每天睡上近十个小时，弥补过去11天严重缺失的睡眠。周一早晨再开始下一个11天的奋斗。虽然体力上很累，但我心里很满足、很骄傲，我知道自己在用行动打造未来、在创业。有时我也会在日记里鼓励自己。我住在纽约市曼哈顿区65街与第一大道路口附近，离纽约著名的中心公园(Central Park)很近，那里也时有文化娱乐活动，但在纽约工作整整两年，我从未迈进中心公园一步。”。这可能真的应验了有汗水就有收获、苦尽甜来的道理。

施教授还说“有时我想：如果自己在博士生、博士后阶段的那七年半不努力进取，而是不加节制地看电影、读小说、找娱乐（当时的互联网远没有现在这么内容丰富），现在该是什么状况？”。我们现在很多的学生的状况就已经回答了这个疑问。所以，如果自己不是特别聪慧的话，我特别同意“做一个优秀的博士生，时间的付出是必要条件”的忠告。推而广之，做一件成功的事情，时间的付出是必须的。

我给学生说我最希望大家在教师节送给我你的研究进展汇报、你的论文初稿、你的实验设计、你的学术思考… … 周五的组会开得很好，学生的研究进展汇报很有启发性，大家的讨论也很有深度。我们的中秋聚会过得也很愉快，有吃有喝，有说有笑。

今天是教师节。我给老师送去问候，给学生送去“礼物”。我找到了当年网络上流传的蒲慕明先生写给他实验室的邮件，稍作整理，作为教师节“礼物”送给了我的学生们。

连续不断地短信和邮件从不同的地方传到我这里，体会到了桃李在四方的喜悦。

感谢我的学生们，感谢我的老师们。

顺祝中秋快乐！

另借机呼吁一下，支持李小文老师的提议：教师节不是送礼节。要送礼就送贺卡吧，写上对老师的祝愿。

附：2001年蒲慕明教授写给他实验室学生的信（注：来自网络，稍作整理）：

Lab members:

Over the past several months, it has become clear to me that if there is no drastic change in the lab, Poo lab will soon cease to be a productive, first-rate lab that you chose to join in the first place. Lab progress reports over the past six months have clearly shown the lack of progress in most projects.one year ago, when we first moved to Berkeley, I expressed clearly to everyone my expectation from each one in the lab. The most important thing is what I consider to be sufficient amount of time and effort in the lab work. I mentioned that about 60 hr working time per week is what I consider the minimal time an average successful young scientist in these days has to put into the lab work. There may be a few rare lucky fellows like Florian, who had two Nature papers in his sleeve already, can enjoy life for a while and still get a job offer from Harvard. No one else in the lab has Florian's luxury to play around.Thus I am imposing strict rules in the lab from now on:

1. Everyone works at least 50 hr a week in the lab （e.g., 8+ hr a day, six days a week）. This is by far lower than what I am doing every day and throughout most of my career. You may be smarter or do not want to be successful, but I am not asking you to match my time in the lab.

2. By working, I mean real bench work. This does not include surfing on the computer and sending and receiving e-mails for non-scientific matters unrelated to your work （you can do this after work in the lab or at home, and excessive chatting on nonscientific matters. No long lunch break except special occasions. I suggest that everyone puts in at least 6 hr concentrated bench work and 2+ hr reading and other research-related activity each day. Reading papers and books should be done mostly after work. More time can be spent on reading, literature search and writing during working hours when you are ready for writing a paper.

3. I must be informed in person by e-mail （even in my absence from the lab）when you are absent from the lab for a whole day or more. Informed me early your vacation plan. Taking more than 20 working days out of one year is the maximum to me. In fact, none of you are reporting any vacation and sick leave on your time sheet （against the university rule, although I have been signing the sheets）, but you know roughly how many days you were not here. On the whole, I understand and accept the fact that you may not fulfill the above requirements all the time, due to health reasons, occasional personal business. But if you do not like to follow the rules because it is simply a matter of choice of life style, I respect your choice but suggest you start making plans immediately and leave the lab by the end of January 31. I will do my best to help you to locate a lab to transfer or to find a job. If you do accept the conditions I describe above, I am happy to continue to provide my best support to your work, hopefully more than I have done in the past. I will review the progress of everyone in the lab by the end of June of 2002. I expect everyone to have made sufficient progress in the research so that a good paper is in sight （at least to the level of J.Neuroscience）. If you cannot meet this goal at that time, I will have to ask you to prepare to leave my lab by the end of August.

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Mu-ming：

As a scientist, you must dedicate everything to this business 作为一个科学家，你必须把一切都献身给科研事业.

－ Working time: 8-hour is unpractical. There is NO way for a scientist or a Ph.D student to workonly 8 hours a day! 每天仅仅工作8个小时是不行的。对于一个博士或者科学家，每天仅仅工作8个小时根本根本就是死路一条！（“NO way”）

－ Go to your mother’s house for afternoon naps and never come back! 如果有人敢午休，那就马上卷铺盖走人，永远不要再回实验室！

－ Vacation: 5 weeks per year (Chinese New Year, the May Day and the National Day breaks are included) 包括春节，五一，国庆，每年全部假期一共5个星期。

－ Start your morning work not later than 8:30 am and afternoon work no later than 1 pm 上午必须早于8：30上班，下午早于1点上班。（注意，没有规定几点下班。）

－ Surf over the Internet for non-scientific purposes should be less than 30 min a day 每天用于看网页以及其他与科研无关事情的时间不得多余30分钟。

－ Reading newspapers should be limited less than 30 min a day 每天看报纸的时间不得多余30分钟

－ Novels or other non-scientific journals/magazines are not permitted in the lab and office 小说和非科研性杂志不准带入实验室

－ If you are absent from the lab more than one hour, get permission first. 如果离开实验室超过1个小时，必须事先请假并得到允许。

－ Everyone has personal business, but the lab business always has priority unless in emergency 除非紧急的事情，否则实验室的事情永远大于私事。

－ In this business, an “average” student who works seven days a week is definitely more productive than a “genius” who works five days a week 在这行里，每周只工作5天，即使是天才，也比要低于比一个工作7天的资质平平的人还要差。

－ If you are able to make any major progresses by working 8 hours a day and 5 days a week, every fortunate in this world must be on your side! 如果你即使每天工作8个小时并且每周只工作5天，居然也能成功哪怕只有一次（any）。那除非你是上帝（主宰了世界上一切的人）！