How Research Works: III

ON-CAMPUS DINING HALL-1:30PM

UNDERGRAD
I'm so intimidated by my grad T.A.  He seems like he knows everything.

GRAD STUDENT
(Knows better)

How Research Works: II

THE LAB- 2:35PM

JUNIOR GRAD STUDENT
So why did you decide to go to grad school anyway?

SENIOR GRAD STUDENT
Er... something about science?  Helping people?  An intense need to spend hours doing medial tasks in the name of research?

JUNIOR GRAD STUDENT 

And why do you stay?

SENIOR GRAD STUDENT

Learned helplessness.

How Research Works

OFFICE OF MY GRADUATE ADVISOR- 5PM

ADVISOR

Hey, did you respond to that e-mail I sent you?

STUDENT

Which one?

ADVISOR

The one about IRB requirements and image resolution parameters?

STUDENT

(Pause) I don't think I got that.

ADVISOR

Oh! I guess you couldn't have, I sent it in a dream.

STUDENT

...

phone

Hm.

Apparently blogging from a cell phone does not work very well.

When the robot uprising occurs, I volunteer to fight crappy smartphones and fMRI machines.

Leftovers

I really like the putting out a half hour playlist of the music I've been listening to every week or so.  I don't even mind if no one listens, I just like pseudo-broadcasting random things into the ether.



This mix is mostly made up of odds and ends that didn't make it into the last mix.  Probably a bit less downbeat than last time, but still mostly along the same lines.

Next time: Something completely different