Theorem 946:
Never ever, not even in a desperate attempt to impress your advisor, submit an assignment before time. If you read my last post, you’ll probably know what this post is going to look like. A list of 50 schools. 7 straight hours of solid work. An assignment due Friday (tomorrow, as I write this post). Tuesday morning, I confidently walked into my advisor’s office, all smiles and ready to make him realize I am the best, the most dedicated gem of a graduate student he just found. I knocked at his door, entered with the pile of printouts from last night’s hard work, and looked at him. I had even prepared a little word document with the summary of work I had done, more to show off than anything more.
“So you wanted this data on Friday. I thought I’ll finish it earlier for you to take a look at”, I beamed.
Did he go through those papers? Hell, no. He didn’t even touch them. Instead, listen to what he said-
“Great. I now want you to go through those papers, each and every one of them, pull out the data I am looking for, put it in a table in the word document, classify it, code it, and bring it back to me.”
I could only stare at him in disbelief. He was talking of 10 more hours of work. I don't know which one I felt more, immobilized and paralyzed.
“Hey, thanks for doing those. Good job. How many schools’ information do we have now?”
“50”, I answered unenthusiastically.
“Great. Do the same for the other list too. You don’t mind, do you?”, he handed me a list.
“Of course not. I’ll do it”, I smiled sarcastically, closing the office door behind me before he could assign me more work. It was then that I looked at the list.
The list had 70 more schools.
This is one of those posts I’ll gladly send to PhD comics to make a comic strip out of.
sunshine
6 comments:
One PhD student to another, never post about your advisor on the internet. They have too much time, more than you realize...
Oh no!! :( Poor you! But then, if advisors didn't do such things, then where would PhD comics come from? :D
Oh no!! :( Poor you! But then, if advisors didn't do such things, then where would PhD comics come from? :D
At least you get paid well in corporate.
:D today you made me realise, PhD comics stuff do happen in real life..
ahahhahha...that always happens does not it?
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