GEEK PRIDE

Phdcomics keeps me real. Whenever you get crazy, it helps to know that other grad students are just as crazy, in all the disciplines (not just the biology freaks. These stats TA's are hardcore. I can only WISH to be so hardcore. Stats 4 life.

Just finished "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. Now I can join the crowds of people shaking this book in other people's faces and saying READ THIS IT IS AWESOME. Fast reading, easy reading, but damn rewarding reading. It was a little weird how much correlation I could see between what Ender is put through to become a better general and what WE are typically put through as graduate students to become "better scientists." A little freaky. But in the end the attitude is right on the money: Don't do it and be miserable because they "tricked" you into it. Do it and be miserable because you CHOOSE to do it.

Ok, back to it. Prelim in 2 weeks!