xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
Ummmm…no. I don’t even know where to start.
Sigh, the story of my grad school days…
Once again, I’m glad to have advisors that actually do it the simple way first.
An asinine classmate
I’m sorry, there’s no reason to say “contemporaneous” instead of contemporary, especially in an engineering class about computer architecture.
Update: After polling more people, I now understand the value of “contemporaneous.” But the dude who said it is still a douchebag.
PHD Comics: Official Guidelines
And that’s why I couldn’t really answer when my parents asked when I was going “back to work” after my vacation.
PHD Comics: Definition of Vacation
Hey, don’t knock vacations where you spend the whole time pondering your work from a different zip code.
xkcd - A Webcomic - Extrapolating
Sadly, I’ve seen much worse extrapolation than this in academic contexts.
* 6 years work experience with BS
* 4 years work experience with MS
* 0 years work experience with PhD”
A job listing
At least they took pity on advanced degrees by cutting the amount of experience accordingly.
Weissberg, you are the anonymous reviewer bane of everyone’s existence.
