I really should be writing my abstract for a conference I want to go to but I thought of this during another conference... so actually it's not very useful for me to go to a conference anyway....
It takes a PhD to discover (and a naturally concentration impaired individual i.e. a woman like me):
- That you really don't know a thing about anything and that the people who brags about knowing too much are seriously damaged or end up killed.
- That your self-esteem won't get better even if you let yourself get educated too much
- That by the time you're doing a PhD your body will start growing huge just in the places where it shouldn't
- That no matter how much you try to put it off eventually you MUST GET A JOB! (and that if you put it off too long you'll end up in so much debt that you won't profit from your earnings from your job)
- That maybe your grandma was right and you should've married that handsome 40 yr old doctor and live your life satisfying his needs (... that you never actually knew your grandma that much to get that kind of advice and that the 40 yr old doctor never existed... and you're nuts)
- That everybody else is doing a crappy research just like you... they just convince themselves and others that they're not.
- That whoever is doing math modelling stands a better chance of actually getting the degree... by the time examiners get to the 3rd really confusing and completely useless equation they'll be so fed up that they won't even care to read the rest and they'll give you the degree anyway (si no puedes con el maestro, choréatelo)
And that was all, as you can see I really think the conference in Toulouse was very interesting and useful ;) and I had the opportunity to practise my anaemic French. Oh oh, and I got a nice surprise from bf who gave me flowers, baked brownies and lasagna and set the table with candles when I got back, I thought that behaviour was an urban legend!!! :)
Meanwhile please enjoy the nice picture of the beautiful medieval town of Carcassonne... really, if you are going to study a PhD do it in Toulouse, nice food, nice people, nice weather, nicely near to Spain (Barcelona) and nice school. Back to you abstract...
3 comments:
well, i'm doing something in the area of math's modelling... that would mean that, if i have a better chance of getting a degree, my self-esteem should be through the roof, but the second point made it clear that that's not going to happen, and it's confirmed by the fact pointed out in the fifth bullet... thus, your logic eats itself: it may NOT take a PhD to discover that, maybe just a Master's, or, hell, maybe we should've discovered that while doing our High School degree, but we were too dumb to notice... concluding that whoever's doing a PhD or Post-Doc REALLY does not get it... poor us dumb fools =P
I enjoy my PhD. I'm still lost but hopefully i will end up using most of the skills to find a good job. Anyway I'm enjoy three more years of freedom without a big responsabilities.
I never said I didn't... but anyway... I thought it was funny... clearly it was not.
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