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| The beginning phase of the thesis can roughly correspond to the first year of the thesis, but a more accurate approximation would be 10 months (if you start your thesis in September/October, that would make the beginning of the thesis until May/June). During this period, your task is to get a feel for your scientific subject, i.e. to understand what is the question/problem to be solved. Depending on your subject and your field, this can be more or less theoretical or more or less practical, which will lead you in one case to read a lot and in the other case to "manipulate" a lot, most likely by doing some programming. | The beginning phase of the thesis can roughly correspond to the first year of the thesis, but a more accurate approximation would be 10 months (if you start your thesis in September/October, that would make the beginning of the thesis until May/June). During this period, your task is to get a feel for your scientific subject, i.e. to understand what is the question/problem to be solved. Depending on your subject and your field, this can be more or less theoretical or more or less practical, which will lead you in one case to read a lot and in the other case to "manipulate" a lot, most likely by doing some programming. |
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| Your second objective for the beginning of your thesis is to familiarize yourself with your working environment for at least the next 3 years. This means getting to know the places and people but also the global functioning of the laboratory and of research in general. More prosaically, you also need to familiarize yourself with your technical tools, whether it is learning a new programming language or a new library, perfecting your French (you are in a French lab, in France, it is better to know some French), or even getting your hand with physical equipment such as robots. It is for all these reasons that it is the right time to do your [[doctorants:en:formations|doctorale formations]] as it is precisely indicated in the [[doctorants:en:rules|commandment number 6]]. | Your second objective for the beginning of your thesis is to familiarize yourself with your working environment for at least the next 3 years. This means getting to know the places and people but also the global functioning of the laboratory and of research in general. More prosaically, you also need to familiarize yourself with your technical tools, whether it is learning a new programming language or a new library, perfecting your French (you are in a French lab, in France, it is better to know some French), or even getting your hand with physical equipment such as robots. It is for all these reasons that it is the right time to do your [[doctorants:en:formations|doctoral formations]] as it is precisely indicated in the [[doctorants:en:rules|commandment number 6]]. |
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| Nevertheless, at the end of this first year, don't expect to have done the tour of your subject and to have understood all the corners of it. You may even feel that you have a much bigger problem than you thought and that you don't understand much of what is going on. The important thing is to be familiar with your environment and to have at least one way to deal with your problem. It may not be the right one and you may have already identified several others, but you will have to choose a first path to take to move forward. And don't panic if it's not the right one the first time, that's part of the learning process. | Nevertheless, at the end of this first year, don't expect to have done the tour of your subject and to have understood all the corners of it. You may even feel that you have a much bigger problem than you thought and that you don't understand much of what is going on. The important thing is to be familiar with your environment and to have at least one way to deal with your problem. It may not be the right one and you may have already identified several others, but you will have to choose a first path to take to move forward. And don't panic if it's not the right one the first time, that's part of the learning process. |
