Red Flag LoR?

[elitehacker1337]

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Hi all,

I had requested a letter of rec from a professor and he said I'd be a good physician etc and he wrote me one. He also says if it doesn't work out, I should do a PhD in his lab.

I am in a lab which is not his but I took his class which is why I asked him for a LoR. I like to do research but I am very uninterested in doing a PhD as I don't have a personality that research is ideal for (creativity and liking lab work when experiments are failing). I also tend to overthink things in lab and have never been great at experiments in lab or in pre-req course labs. I did not mind the lab write-up though or conceptual parts.

Should I be alarmed of his comments? I haven't seen his LoR of course but I feel like it might say: "I don't know why elitehacker1337 wants to pursue medicine when he has a personality for research".

I try to be interested in the courses I take and like asking what-if questions so I think he thinks that I want do a PhD.

Any thoughts on this?

 

[deleted972488]

Wow, you are really overthinking this. He was just trying to be nice.

 

[Dr. Let 'er Buck]

Ya, remember (or look up) Occam's Razor. You are taking one thought and kinda running with it.

I would almost guarantee that he was being nice.

 

[elitehacker1337]

Wow, you are really overthinking this. He was just trying to be nice.

Really? He said, "but if it doesn’t work out, please keep Ph.D. in our lab as a possibility in the future".

 

[deleted972488]

Really? He said, "but if it doesn’t work out, please keep Ph.D. in our lab as a possibility in the future".

That is a nice thing to say.

 

[LizzyM]

He thinks your great and would be an asset to his lab. How is that a bad thing?