School Is Almost Over

[Kumquat]

My school is too small for TA's....

[ecnarf]

Graduate students are the best ever. Espeically since you NEVER see them around campus. It's like they exist in their own little alternate dimensions and come into this one when they have to help clueless undergrads with such basic shit as "The reaction will not work if you don't put indicator into the solution", and "Your reaction isn't working? Did you put the indicator in?"

[Lauren]

i never see grad students either.. but i wouldn't know them from undergrads because they look basically the same.

Edited April 14, 2007 by Lauren

[ecnarf]

You mean you don't notice their distinct aura of intelligence? They're better than us, you know.

 

You'll also notice that when they're working in the library, nobody comes within 10 feet of them. It's the fear of angering the hand that marks your tests.

[Azalroth]

I'm pretty sure Lauren has more of a life than noticing undergrads vs graduates

 

heh school was over in December for me....kinda nice to be done, job hunting blows tho

[Kumquat]

I don't want to grow up.

 

Evar. With an A.

[Crusader]

school's been over for me for awhile except for finals. but then again school starts again in may for me. fuck.

[ecnarf]

I don't want to grow up.

 

Evar. With an A.

Reason number 1 to not go into pharmacy and stay in the physical sciences?

 

Grad school.

 

I'll be in school + postdoctoral research until I'm 30. Then maybe later I'll become a prof and be pretty fucking awesome.

[Kumquat]

That's attractive.

[ecnarf]

I'll mostly do it to score with the impressionable first-years.

[Crusader]

i thought about getting an MA but seriously, why? just get a job and make money

[ecnarf]

Grad students do make money, though.

 

Also, access to undergrad pussy. Take THAT, corporate world.

[Crusader]

the grants are stupid. and that's what interns are for, they're pretty much undergrads. hell some of them are in highschool.

[Lauren]

Grad students do make money, though.

 

Also, access to undergrad pussy. Take THAT, corporate world.

being a female undergrad, let me tell you right now that you won't get as much pussy as you think you will.

[Crusader]

plus you'll be a teacher. loser

[ecnarf]

What the hell are you on about? Grad students are paid as faculty members. Here at Western a chemistry grad student earns upwards of 20K a year.

 

EDIT: Holy fuck Lauren is hyperbole a completely lost art?

Edited April 16, 2007 by ecnarf

[Crusader]

ohhh i thought you were planning on taking a research grant as a grad student. lots of people do that here and they do stupid things like figure out why the shower curtain pulls in when you shower.

[ecnarf]

What the deuce? Sounds like a top-class research institute you're attending, there.

[Crusader]

i think it was U of T. sfu and ubc do the same but atleast our projects aren't stupid like that one. but hey, whatever gets you a 250k grant.

[ecnarf]

A ha ha ha ha ha ha.

 

U of T ...

[supercanuk]

Seriously i cant wait to be a master's student

[ecnarf]

I wanna be a PHD student someday. I'll run shit.

[supercanuk]

I wanna be a PHD student someday. I'll run shit.

Same!

It's a long road.

I want to get my P.h.d in Sociology, but of course its a long road and it's one of my goals in life.

Who knows how long it will take me to do it! lol

[ecnarf]

But what else would you be doing? Working a menial job and raising kids is what. I'd rather get down with the specifics of a vast array of chemical processes I don't even know exist yet.

[supercanuk]

But what else would you be doing? Working a menial job and raising kids is what. I'd rather get down with the specifics of a vast array of chemical processes I don't even know exist yet.

True, well it depends i guess what you get into, because id definetely be down with being a researcher and having babies at one point. Could be at the same time, but for now im just an undergrad lol.