I have been wondering about the pros and cons of grad school education in general, and Ph.D. in particular. One thing that most people do not talk about is the opportunity cost of the decision to go to school for 7 more years (2 Masters + 5 Ph.D). Exactly how much does one loose in [...]
Here is an email QoH sent out because we didn’t submit his precious little TPS reports on time.
Subject: payroll changes
From: QOH
To: QoH’s Admin Assistant
CC: All Graduate Students in the lab
Admin Assistant,
Unfortunately, the lab has serious problems, which I could not resolve for several months now. Since I am out of ammunition to communicate my message [...]
As I had mentioned in the previous post, I have started to play poker regularly and with a bit more seriousness. I play at a no-money poker club that meets at a sports bar, and every week the player with the most points gets rewarded with a free buy-in at a nearby casino. This week [...]
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The quarter has ended and brought along the joys of not having to TA for rest of my natural life, YAY!!! It was not that bad a quarter after all, just too much work that was not personally rewarding. The last week was very busy with setting up the final exam, grading [...]
I am going to stop updating the blog posts with tweets. It just looks ass ugly and doesn’t really serve any purpose. The tweets will continue to be updated on the sidebar, just no posts. Also, just wondering who else is on twitter.
spent the day cooking at home. Figuring out how to kill the night.
Finished next round of edits to the proposal and sent it to QoH. Off to bed, or to watch more “Carrier” on Netflix
11:46 PM and am still in lab working the proposal. Nearly done though. Feels good to be productive and after a quarter of teaching.
