Sunday, July 10, 2005

The first week

Well folks, it's the end of my first week as a grad student. And a fellow student just introduced me to this website, from which I got the comic below. There are quite a few other students in the group and they tell me this is a brilliant observation. Enjoy.



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really enjoyed the comics, but one thing I can't work out: what does the graph under the X-axis represent? Just curious..

Moc said...

Hi Kev

Thanks for writing. Yep, I wasn't sure about about the negative y-values myself. I think it's when grad students do things that just generate more work but without any useful results. Like spending a whole day staining and fixing cells and then not mounting them properly, so the whole process has to be repeated. Before that, though, cells need to be cultured again, culture media needs to be changed, the glassward needs to be autoclaved...

Moc said...

Hi Jane

Great to hear from you. Yep, I'd be happy for you to add my url to your blog. Shall I do the same?

Catch you soon,
Moc