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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was a graduate student then a postdoc years ago, every time I would be really annoyed when the advisor assigned an undergraduate to me.  It's a liability.  Was at Cal.[/quote]

Or you could see it as a failed opportunity for developing your mentorship and people management skills. I bet you’re not good at those even now.

I actually had positive experiences with assigned undergrads during my doctorate. You get what you put in.[/quote]

You must be joking.  The advisor is just shifting their own work onto you, because they don't want to do it.  As a grad student or postdoc, you have limited time and more important things to do than to deal with undergrads.[/quote]

I’m not joking. That’s how you develop soft people skills, project management etc. In your career you’ll have to deal with people less knowledgeable than you are that need to be motivated and trained. You definitely missed that opportunity. Berkeley students are some of the most hard working and smart there are.[/quote]
What makes you qualified to give a lesson to people?  What's you accomplishment in life, research wise or management wise?  Is managing undergrad the only way to develop soft skills?  How about inter-lab collaboration?  How about working with peer graduate students or postdocs, would that stop you from developing soft skills, or "definitely" missed that opportunity?  If you are happy working with unders, that's great, you do you.  However, different people have different preference.[/quote]

You’re the one making sweeping generalizations that undergrads are useless, nobody wants to work with them etc. the truth is more nuanced many grad students, post docs and professors will happily mentor an undergrad. You didn’t, don’t generalize to everyone.[/quote]

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