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

[TriinT]

I used to love to read these essays on how to be a good and productive grad student... until I came to grad school. Same with phdcomics.

[chromophore → TriinT]

LOL "TriinT" I know what you mean. :)

I think I'll keep reading PHD comics, just because it's really funny. I don't relate it to grad-school as such. Just the whole exaggerated sense it is written in.

[Maro → TriinT]

phdcomics is funny, but not if you're phd student =)

[pierrefar → Maro]

They're still funny even years after I finished my PhD :)

[Maro → pierrefar]

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.

[_cbsz → Maro]

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.)

[yters → Maro]

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