This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that only six or seven people will ever care about. These suffering, unshaven sad sa...
This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that only six or seven people will ever care about. These suffering, unshaven sad sacks are grad students, and their salvation has arrived in this witty look at the low points of grad school.
Inside, you’ll find:
•advice on maintaining a veneer of productivity in front of your advisor
•tips for sleeping upright during boring seminars
•a description of how to find which departmental events have the best unguarded free food
•how you can convincingly fudge data and feign progress
This hilarious guide to surviving and thriving as the lowliest of life-forms—the grad student—will elaborate on all of these issues and more.
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Every seminar is different, in the same way that the circles of Hell are different….A poor, misguided student will actually take notes.
You will start writing a list of things you need to accomplish as soon as they let you out of this freaking room.
The speaker will spend ten minutes thanking people no one in the room has heard of.
Truly, we live in the best of all possible worlds.
Your reward for years of drudgery is, if you’re lucky, the opportunity to publish your ideas in a small, unpopular journal. What the hell were you thinking? Oh. You were thinking that you’d use your intellect to illuminate a tiny corner of the world. How naive….Unfortunately, you may not yet understand exactly how tiny that corner is. As you progressed through school, the topic of each class narrowed a bit, ... (查看原文)
0 有用 hcccccc 2018-07-05 03:24:49
开头很好笑
0 有用 KitchenBee 2012-01-12 04:00:05
很娱乐，同学苦闷的时候拿来笑笑。
0 有用 Likely A Whale 2018-06-10 07:39:21
This is gold. This is not gold.
0 有用 Marchyyy 2013-07-05 07:42:43
Just consider the book name, every grad student should read it when they were young
0 有用 虞章 2021-09-08 09:02:34
2021/11