Off Topic
So, Dave got an email from one of the students in the course he TAs for that starts like this: “Yo, wuzzup wigger?” Is it just me, or does that seem like an inappropriate way to address your TA? →Read more
Something to Report
Well, I’ve got something to report! Got feedback from my supervisor on my lit review chapter… and she wants revisions! Of course! The parts that I had gone into quite a bit of depth she felt I went into too much depth and the parts that I felt needed to be only mentioned, she wanted […] →Read more
Nothing to Report
I’ve got nothing to report. Just been working on revising my chapter 3, which is very boring and so I’ve got nothing to report. Instead, I will entertain you with a joke: Did you here about the dyslexic agnostic? He wonders if there really is a dog. Discuss. →Read more
Feedback!!
Finally got some feedback from my supervisor that I’ve been waiting for! And she actually seems to like my paper [insert sigh of relief here!]… she gave me some suggested changes to work on over the weekend (which are soooo much better to work on than stupid formatting!) and we are meeting tomorrow morning to […] →Read more
Formatting Sux
I spent about 2 hours today re-formatting my paper to meet the stupid, nit-picky rules of thesis-dom. What was once “Figure 1” had to become “Figure 2.1”; margins needed to be tweaked; figures needed to be transported; references needed to be converted from numbers to names… well, they didn’t *have* to, but since I *hate* […] →Read more
Funny Gene Names
When you discover a gene/protein/other cool biological thing, you get to name it. Some people choose really boring names, like interleukin-27. But others are more creative with their naming… I’m particularly fond of the following ‘cuz of their fun names: Indian hedgehog (and its friends, Desert & Sonic hedgehog) Tiggy-winkle hedgehog (obviously, I’m a fan […] →Read more
Bad Grad Student Redux
Well, I haven’t posted in a while… mainly because I haven’t worked on my thesis in a while = ((I now have a whopping 2 pages written for chapter 4). But it’s not completely my fault… I’m kinda waiting around to get comments from my supervisor on the discussion section of my paper (chapter 3) […] →Read more
Why I Am Afraid to Finish My Thesis…
The other day, I received these 14 letters in the mail: The letters are pretty much identical, telling me that the Royal Bank, to whom I owe millions of dollars and my first born in student loans, has changed some system, so all my student loans have different account numbers now. Instead of sending me […] →Read more
Irrelevant, but Funny
OK, this has nothing to do with my thesis, but it’s just damn funny. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory. →Read more
Update
OK, so I now have a draft of chapter 1 that I’m happy enough with to have others read. It’s been a long haul writing it (it’s over 60 pages now!) and I have been entrenched in it for so long that I can’t even see straight when I try to read it, so here’s […] →Read more