glorious

[Gary_Yngve]

Two years ago a project I was working on with my advisor fizzled out. My advisor contended that I gave up to early, and I contended that he led me down a wild goose chase.

 

This weekend, as a corollary to some other work I was doing, I proved that what we were trying to do was impossible.

[ScottP]

 

Thanks for sharing...

[foraker]

Heh. At some point in my thesis, after bashing my head against a wall for quite some time, my advisor came out with "If I'd known this was going to be so hard, I wouldn't have set you off doing it". Small comfort from the man who already had his diploma and job in hand.

[foraker]

Of course, maybe he emphasized the me doing it part and I just missed that. ;-)

[EWolfe]

 

Get a hold on your life. I'm tired of your bitching.

[layton]

if something doesn't work, force it to.

[AlpineK]

 

Get a hold on your life. I'm tired of your bitching.

 

Yeah I'm going to go with E on this.

 

Come on Gary, every person you meet has bs in their life. Why are you special? Get a different advisor, get a job and forget about grad school, or suck it up and take it.

those are the first three obvious options.

 

But please please please quit whining.

[David Trippett]

My advisor sucks donkey schlong. I wish he could be "taken care of".

[AlpineK]

There you go option #4... put a hit out on your advisor.

[griz]

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[cj001f]

This weekend, as a corollary to some other work I was doing, I proved that what we were trying to do was impossible.

 

Wow. That sounds like my jobs. Except when I prove it's impossible they give me a pink slip. Count your blessings.

[Norman_Clyde]

if something doesn't work, force it to.

Please tell me they didn't teach you this in chiropractic school.

[TREETOAD]

 

Thanks for sharing...

 

Hey that looks like an IUD I bumped into a few times

[Dru]

Just falsify your data and get your degree.

[tomtom]

Two years ago a project I was working on with my advisor fizzled out. My advisor contended that I gave up to early, and I contended that he led me down a wild goose chase.

 

This weekend, as a corollary to some other work I was doing, I proved that what we were trying to do was impossible.

 

You should have done this two years ago, then.

[matt_warfield]

If you know how it's going to turn out, it isn't research. Dead ends are a valuable and inevitable part of grad school.

[selkirk]

Don't tell me your still under the impression that research is supposed to work, and do things like give you reasonable data , and makes sense are you? I know a pour sould who's in the fifth year of masters degree because he keeps hoping to get "good" data. Poor guy.

 

I finally just ignored the 3/5's of my data that I didn't like, and now it all makes perfect sense

[minx]

the unfortunate thing for gary is that even though he's proved that it's not possible, his advisor won't even remember that he ever worked on it b/c it was two years ago.

[Camilo]

 

Thanks for sharing...

 

Hey that looks like an IUD I bumped into a few times

[Gary_Yngve]

If you know how it's going to turn out, it isn't research. Dead ends are a valuable and inevitable part of grad school.

 

Oh yes. But the point here was that my advisor accused me two years ago of giving up too early, saying I could have found a way through had I persevered, and I just proved him wrong.

 

I don't know what's with all you fuckers saying that I'm whining -- I was bouncing up and down on cloud nine when I discovered this, and I was merely sharing my glee.

[matt_warfield]

If you know how it's going to turn out, it isn't research. Dead ends are a valuable and inevitable part of grad school.

 

I just proved him wrong.

 

 

Ironically, it may have given you more value to find that out after a couple years of consternation!

[EWolfe]

 

Oh yes. But the point here was that my advisor accused me two years ago of giving up too early, saying I could have found a way through had I persevered, and I just proved him wrong.

 

I don't know what's with all you fuckers saying that I'm whining -- I was bouncing up and down on cloud nine when I discovered this, and I was merely sharing my glee.

 

From one who knows: Crying Wolf.

[Gary_Yngve]

A classic tidbit today:

 

(I sent my advisor some ideas an an email a few days ago.)

 

Him, interrupting my analysis of the Zuu matrices: But what if we could improve the stability by (idea that I sent him in email)?

 

Me: Yeah, that's a really good idea!

[cj001f]

A classic tidbit today:

 

(I sent my advisor some ideas an an email a few days ago.)

 

Him, interrupting my analysis of the Zuu matrices: But what if we could improve the stability by (idea that I sent him in email)?

 

Me: Yeah, that's a really good idea!

Wait for the real world when they patent it.

[foraker]

I saw a corollary of this is at a workshop once. My advisor was describing a problem he was going to work on to some grad student of a colleague. Toady Grad Student immediately bolted off to Worshipped Advisor describing how they could do this problem NOW, knowing full well that it would take my advisor a couple of month's work to start getting results. He didn't discuss research problems with anyone after that. Toady Grad Student is now chairman of the department at UC Berkeley.