"Senior" :Welcome to Grad School Australopithecus. What are you in for?(like they do in prisons...makes one think.)
Me: A PhD. Hopefully will be done in 5 years.
"Senior" : looks at me strangely and gives what has often been described as a "hollow mirthless laugh" and goes away muttering "5 years, 5 years, 5 years"
Someone later tells me, he has been around the department for 8 years. And hasn't finished writing his thesis yet. Damn! That's scary.
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I've got my own laptop now. for the first time ever I won't be sharing a computer with a family member. It is great news. I don't have to hide porn anymore. I can have it close by for ...err... easy reference.
I am also told that this means I no longer need to camp out in the lab/library to study.
This is where realization strikes ( like a trade union) "Oh! one can study in the library as well"
I've been abusing the library facilities. As a grad student, I can borrow 240 books at a time.
I've go a few...Wodehouse, Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie, Leslie Charteris and the complete Peanuts from 1950 to 1952. Amazing. Some of the Wodehouses are first editions. I realized this slightly late , right after I've left my books lying near an open window when a hurricane struck.
I need to work on getting an internet connection.
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8 comments:
And then we can talk on skype no?
haha, didnt you read enough phdcomics to know you probably wont be done in 5 years??
@it all comes around: yes we can..btw if we can blog we can also write emails..
@paranoid.android: yus yus. correct
i hate you. all those books. so little time. would contemplate extending the phd if i could borrow that many.
@cynic: yes! and the books dont go back until january
A laptop has been acquired. Very good. Now please send in birding accounts from your globe trotting. Deadline for submissions is 23rd of every month.:p :p
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