July 2011
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Why can't people READ?
So I’m trying to recruit people to take my survey for my residency project. It’s about people who choose to transfer the friends they’ve made online to their offline lives, so I thought - gee! Why not recruit people online! So far I’ve gotten: People who can’t read the age requirements, get midway through, and go, “Oh. I’m too old. You can just discard my...
Jul 11th
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May 2011
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May 12th
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April 2011
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Apr 9th
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Apr 4th
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March 2011
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Mar 30th
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Aqueous Chemistry Exam
Grad school finally got the best of me… since I’ve gotten here I’ve been struggling lived in fear and anxiety of dropping the ball… I’ve pulled miracles out my ass left and right to keep from drowning, and a little over a year in and it finally happened.  Grad school got the best of me.  Spent over 40 hours on this exam and didn’t get it done. I asked my...
Mar 30th
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Mar 30th
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“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Readings in the Inquiring of the Eventual End of a...”
– (via thedoorsofwittenburg)
Mar 29th
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Mar 7th
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Listenambiturner: Too Logit to Quit. This song made my...
Mar 1st
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Mar 1st
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February 2011
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Feb 28th
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January 2011
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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“The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future...”
– from a letter in The Economist.
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December 2010
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Dec 21st
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Dec 19th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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WatchWatch
“It’s not unemployment if you pay tuition!”
Dec 14th
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Dec 8th
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November 2010
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Nov 26th
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Nov 26th
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Nov 25th
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Nov 25th
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Nov 22nd
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Late lab nights
I hate the pH probe in our lab so much right now. I just want to set my solution to pH 7.2 – it’s 6:10 PM on a Friday night and I’m starving. Stabilize, will you?!
Nov 20th
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Nov 18th
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Nov 18th
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I think I was hungover when I decided to go
to college. Here’s what you should expect: you will gain weight by the time you finish you’re either alcoholic or bipolar your only real friends are the ones you made in school bitching you will learn nothing - curlyworld Well, I certainly lost weight in grad school. Being broke and anxiety-ridden does that. And I’ve learned a lot. Whether I’ll end up using much...
Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
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Someone really needs to provide some motivation...
thebestcardtrick:
Nov 17th
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masteringme: I am so ready to be done with grad school. As a very wise colleague told me, “you have to hate in order to graduate”.
Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
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Nov 6th
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Nov 6th
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THAT bad?
I’m afraid that what I’m going to post may be too depressing, but hey you asked for it! The quote below is taken from ‘A Mental Makeover for the Graduate Student’ by Shannon Duvall, July/August 2008.  Available (free access) from: http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/~hamzaoglu/students/gradstudent_mental_makeover.pdf “The 2004 Berkeley Graduate Student Mental Health...
Nov 6th
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Nov 4th
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October 2010
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Oct 31st
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Oct 28th
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17,000,000 Americans with college degrees are... →
withoutanhaitch: At least we’ll be able to have intelligent conversation while we pump yopur gas and pour your drinks. Right? Right?
Oct 28th
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throughthebrush: …why am I in grad school, again? What am I doing with my life?
Oct 28th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 24th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 18th
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