Tag: grad school hell

goddamnshinyrock:

final thesis submitted, and four days ‘til graduation!

my mother keeps anxiously asking if I’m done with everything and then getting worried and saying ‘but you ARE graduating right? we’re not flying out there for nothing?’ when I equivocate and I was about to be indignantly like ‘when have I EVER not graduated on time’ but then I remembered they totally did come down for my graduation from undergrad and I still had one class left to do that summer so I did not…. technically graduate for another few months….

blessing of blessings, today the World’s Most Boring Man was at a conference and had his phd student give a lecture on his dissertation. Which, despite being about mathematical models of international fishery management (based on, for some reason, game theory), was about 500% more interesting than the usual repetitive drone

every time I enter the mechanical engineering building on campus I have the vague but peristent impression that the entire structure is composed of 75% asbestos and lead paint, 10% robotics competition memorabilia, and 5% accumulated engineer sweat.

I can identify the point at which I gave up on plant ID for my thesis, and it’s where my species list goes from “Lady Fern (Athyrium filix–femina)” to “Polytrichum moss, exact species uncertain” to “Other mosses, various”