Writing a dissertation....

ashman · July 17, 2007, 06:54:21 PM

You crazy grad school kids.

bubba zanetti · July 17, 2007, 06:57:43 PM

Ok I'll play your silly games, WTF is a dissertation?

spc · July 17, 2007, 07:21:59 PM

It's an extensively researched paper discussing, generally, something considered controversial in you selected doctoral field and required for completion of thee degree.

bubba zanetti · July 17, 2007, 07:56:19 PM

Ok thanks. I know it as a thesis.

Glad I never got a degree.

jake42 · July 17, 2007, 08:14:46 PM

Generally you do a thesis for your Masters and a Dissertation for your Doctorate.
In my case I'm hoping they will just eventually give it to me out of pity.

bubba zanetti · July 17, 2007, 08:21:16 PM

Quote from: jake42 on July 17, 2007, 08:14:46 PM
Generally you do a thesis for your Masters and a Dissertation for your Doctorate.
In my case I'm hoping they will just eventually give it to me out of pity.

Ok, I went and got a trade instead of going to University, so I know bugger all about degrees and such.

spc · July 17, 2007, 08:22:56 PM

Quote from: jake42 on July 17, 2007, 08:14:46 PM
Generally you do a thesis for your Masters and a Dissertation for your Doctorate.
In my case I'm hoping they will just eventually give it to me out of pity.

Unless you decide to actually make money off all that education and go to med school or law school

vtlion · July 21, 2007, 12:30:59 PM

Spectroscopic characterization of mixed spin-state mesoheme-peptide conjugates.

Displacement of strained histidyl ligands in peptide-heme conjugates by weak-field ligands.

Ligation state alteration under various conditions of pH and trifluoroethanol concentration.

Peptide helix induction by interactions with covalently attached macrocycles.

Inversion magnetization transfer experimentation to determine cis-trans prolyl amide bond isomerization kinetics.

So far, I have managed to figure out all of these experiments... but I can't get my FREAKIN' HP5500 ink-jet printer to work! How's that for a laugh.

AAAAAARGH....

I need a beer

WildBlue · July 21, 2007, 12:39:25 PM

Quote from: vtlion on July 21, 2007, 12:30:59 PM
Ligation state alteration under various conditions of pH and trifluoroethanol concentration.

Yep... learned that in highschool.

Quote from: vtlion on July 21, 2007, 12:30:59 PM
I can't get my FREAKIN' HP5500 ink-jet printer to work! How's that for a laugh.

Go to the lab and use their laser printer?

spc · July 21, 2007, 09:58:06 PM

.,.......I've been talking with my cousin that's doing his post-doc at Yale

Friggin Experimental Nuclear Physics. I asked him what practical application that field had. He replied, ' short of unbinding the very foundation of the universe, none.'

His work sounds like a shaZam!-ton of fun really

vtlion · July 22, 2007, 06:31:40 AM

Every grad student and post-doc has a memorized speech that they give when asked about the applications of their research.

In truth, 98% of the time the most appropriate response to this question is "this research will get me my PhD".

vtlion · August 03, 2007, 04:23:38 PM

I'm done writing! woohoo!!!!

No more 14 hour days in front of the computer!

No more .xls -> .dat -> .qpc -> .wmf -> .ai -> .psd -> .tiff-> .doc -> .pdb file conversions!!!!! (damn, it takes alot of work to make a good figure for publication)

I celebrated by going to the local Kawasaki/Triumph/Ducati dealer and throwing my leg over a few Kwackers (I like the ZZR600). Maybe I deserve a reward

Now all I have to do is print, bind, distribute and (most importantly) DEFEND it in 10 days and my 11 year trek through the college ranks will be complete!

ME

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