That person went to a department that was WAY less toxic than mine was.
That said, my committee was lovely and my thesis and dissertation were relatively low-stress compared to some of the horror stories I’ve heard.
As a psychologist who was regularly taunted in school for being in a “soft science” this amuses me. Welcome to the reproducibility crisis, biologists.
Such a great movie. Haven’t watched that in years. Might have to dust that one off this weekend.
There is a great documentary about her on Netflix. It covers her love of science and her attempts to get her design to the military for the war effort.
I love Magritte, but I’ve never seen this one before. It’s pretty great. Always nice to see something new from a favorite artist.
Can’t even imagine the feeling of being a parent of a deaf one year old who gets gene therapy and within 6 months is able to say their first word, “mama”.
Got to be just overwhelming.
A professor I was taking a management class with gave me a fun burn on my thesis. I asked for his input on a specific point and he called it “intellectual masterbation” and proceeded to talk for 15 min or so about ideas he thought i should have studied instead (I was already preparing for my thesis defense so couldn’t change topics). Never got an answer on the actual question I’d raised.