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...
May 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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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...
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Readings in the Inquiring of the Eventual End of a...
– (via thedoorsofwittenburg)
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February 2011
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January 2011
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The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future...
– from a letter in The Economist.
December 2010
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“It’s not unemployment if you pay tuition!”
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November 2010
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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?!
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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...
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Someone really needs to provide some motivation...
thebestcardtrick:
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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”.
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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...
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October 2010
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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?
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throughthebrush:
…why am I in grad school, again? What am I doing with my life?
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