grad school hell – Page 3 – A Pretty Taste for Paradox

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my personal thesis challenge: no single sentence may go over 100 words.

it is frankly a crime to talk about the 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone in the context of arctic fisheries without mentioning the 20th century UK-Iceland Cod Wars

“There’s a very nice marine laboratory on Svalbard, but every few years they lose a student to the polar bears. When I considered doing research there, they asked me if I could use a gun. …I decided not to go there.”

I swear to god I’m going to show up at microsoft’s headquarters with a list of words they need to add to MS Word’s dictionary.

stop fucking telling me ‘biomagnification’ isn’t a word, you imbecilic scrap of software

goddamnshinyrock:

I’ve admired E.O. Wilson since my mother first gave me The Insect Societies when I was in my tween entomology phase, but I never seriously thought I’d be citing him in a thesis

current mood: crying in public because I’m so moved by this scholarly article

I’ve admired E.O. Wilson since my mother first gave me The Insect Societies when I was in my tween entomology phase, but I never seriously thought I’d be citing him in a thesis

I’m only on panel 2/8 but hopefully these next few will go quicker than the first one. More animals and fewer lichen and ferns means quicker turnaround time.

goddamnshinyrock:

okay I don’t say this often because it’s both arrogant sounding and hardly ever true but

I not only could have taught that class, but I could have taught it much better than the actual professor did

he committed every single goddamn cardinal teaching sin: droning voice, not looking up from his notes- from which he read, verbatim, for almost the entire class- more than twice an hour, no discussion or debate, no visual aides at all, failing to relate the content to anything that the average student might have as a frame of reference (nor did he include interesting anecdotes), and being vague and unspecific about assignment requirements.

I’m going to fucking stage a coup.

I pulled up three current, interesting, and relevant news articles that he could have used to reinforce his points as he was stumbling slowly through his notes and explaining concepts simultaneously abstractly and at a very basic level

my mother explained the greenhouse effect to me when I was nine years old with a higher level of detail than this man teaching a class full of college seniors and grad students