These are some types of Starwars based research students I can classify. Just for fun read though, don’t take it seriously.
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Yoda: they publish 3 papers a year; no I never met them.
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Leia Organa: they work damn hard like Leia, come at 8am and go home at 2am. Smile a lot to them.
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Obi-wan: smart like Obi-wan, research is just too easy for them and they just spend minimal effort; give them more difficult task to reduce their ego
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Jabba: they just want to do minimally to graduate and quickly go earn money in the industry; I gave them “minimal” advice
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Emperor Palpatine: they just want to learn “tools” not knowledge so they can quickly reach their quest for powers; encourage them to join your startups
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Lando Calrissian - they are like Lando, showing up only at the last minute. No need to do anything; just enjoy when they panic.
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Grand Admiral Thrawn - they are perfectionist like Thrawn, prefer to read all papers, try all githubs, attend all seminars, watch all YTs, try all mediums.com before they start their research; enjoying learning with them but also tell them to extend infinitely their graduation
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C3PO - they know many things but basically know nothing deep; ask them a deep question and they will change topic again
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Anakin Skywalker (pre-Darth Vader) - they are very arrogant, don’t usually listen, stubborn sometimes, and they also don’t know they are overconfident. Let them fail by themselves and they will realize eventually.
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Luke Skywalker (pre-Yoda training) - they want to save the world but lacks training; calm them down and tell them to first understand what is basic one layer CNN.