Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student - Manuel Blum (CMU)

Re:Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student - Manuel Blum (CMU) by Maro on Sunday September 20, 2009 @12:16PM (#833182)

But were they funny when you were doing it? I mean they're funny, but they're so negative I don't like to read them. At one point another PhD student printed out and put up one of them (it was the one which had a time plot about how you get more and more demotivated over time), and I actually took it down.

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Re:Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student - Manuel Blum (CMU) by swolchok on Monday September 21, 2009 @03:46AM (#834170)

One of my fellow grad students related a tale in which he was his advisor was telling him to work on something and he wanted to know whether his advisor was going to help. His advisor's reply: "Let me consult Ph.D. Comics." (Said advisor has a sense of humor.)

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Re:Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student - Manuel Blum (CMU) by yters on Sunday September 20, 2009 @10:29PM (#833892)

I read them all the time during grad school, as a form of procrastination.

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