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Title: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: vtlion on July 16, 2007, 02:33:49 PM
... I feel like my brain has been throwing up into my computer for the last 10 hours... and I have about two solid weeks of this to look forward to.

somebody distract me before I go insane :cookoo:
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: werase643 on July 16, 2007, 04:24:30 PM
rubber nipples......
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: bubba zanetti on July 16, 2007, 04:34:14 PM
Quote from: werase643 on July 16, 2007, 04:24:30 PM
rubber nipples......

Yes please, I'll two boxes of them.
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: vtlion on July 16, 2007, 04:38:08 PM
OK.... from protein folding thermodynamic to rubber nipples....

we are definitely going the right way.

Keep it up!   :cheers:
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: bubba zanetti on July 16, 2007, 04:45:59 PM
Could we have some toffee nipples instead so I can have something to chew on during the day.
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: NiceGuysFinishLast on July 16, 2007, 04:48:51 PM
real nipples?
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: bubba zanetti on July 16, 2007, 04:52:16 PM
Quote from: NiceGuysFinishLast on July 16, 2007, 04:48:51 PM
real nipples?

That'd be even better, just a bit hard to explain to the missus what I'm doing outsourceing nipples.  :dunno_white:
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: makenzie71 on July 16, 2007, 05:51:51 PM
(http://alfredo.octavio.net/files/aoctavio_distraction.jpg)

rofl...google image for "distraction" and I managed to get something distracting and on a bike haha
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: yamahonkawazuki on July 16, 2007, 06:11:56 PM
(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s296/BeatrixKiddoe/motivator9860556.jpg)
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: Unnamed on July 16, 2007, 11:03:21 PM
Quote from: vtlion on July 16, 2007, 04:38:08 PM
OK.... from protein folding thermodynamic to rubber nipples....

we are definitely going the right way.

Keep it up!   :cheers:

Do you have any idea how much easier your life would have been if you had gone with a subject like political science?
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: spc on July 16, 2007, 11:04:29 PM
Or gone to law school.............No dissertations there :thumb:
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: ashman on July 16, 2007, 11:05:32 PM
I'm working on marketing cases if it makes you feel any better. Currently investigating the water purifier market in India. FUN!

-ash
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: Unnamed on July 16, 2007, 11:06:44 PM
Also, (mostly or entirely) naked girls on bikes always annoy me. When they start out wearing a leather jacket it's always too big, just advertising that it actually belongs to the producer. Then they do all sorts of things on a bike that make me wonder how many times they tipped it over. They never look like they're familiar with it or like they're using it as anything but a couch. I suppose I just need to keep my porn and my motorcycles separate.
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: vtlion on July 17, 2007, 03:39:58 AM
Quote from: spcterry on July 16, 2007, 11:04:29 PM
Or gone to law school.............No dissertations there :thumb:

No logic skills needed either!!!   :laugh:
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: spc on July 17, 2007, 08:29:35 AM
Bingo, that's why I'm gonna go to law school :laugh:
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: ashman on July 17, 2007, 01:44:40 PM
Quote from: ashman on July 16, 2007, 11:05:32 PM
I'm working on marketing cases if it makes you feel any better. Currently investigating the water purifier market in India. FUN!

-ash

STILL working on marketing cases...
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: vtlion on July 17, 2007, 02:50:52 PM
Quote from: ashman on July 17, 2007, 01:44:40 PM
Quote from: ashman on July 16, 2007, 11:05:32 PM
I'm working on marketing cases if it makes you feel any better. Currently investigating the water purifier market in India. FUN!

-ash

STILL working on marketing cases...

I'm on to proline isomerization kinetics and amino acid side chain rotamer analysis now.... wanna trade?  :cheers:
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: ashman on July 17, 2007, 03:01:48 PM
Your just getting to that?  :laugh:

Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: vtlion on July 17, 2007, 03:29:31 PM
Quote from: ashman on July 17, 2007, 03:01:48 PM
Your just getting to that?  :laugh:



Hey, what can I say... PSU is a publik skool.  We dont lern sofistuhkated stuff lyke that till the 23rd grade  :dunno_white:
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: jake42 on July 17, 2007, 06:41:46 PM
lucky you, at least you're writing. I finally found out today that I passed my last prelim. So now I get to officially start forming questions for my dissertation. Yay.
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: ashman on July 17, 2007, 06:54:21 PM
You crazy grad school kids.
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: bubba zanetti on July 17, 2007, 06:57:43 PM
Ok I'll play your silly games, WTF is a dissertation?
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: spc on 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.
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: bubba zanetti on July 17, 2007, 07:56:19 PM
Ok thanks. I know it as a thesis.

Glad I never got a degree.
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: 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.

Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: bubba zanetti on 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.
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: spc on 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
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: vtlion on 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....   :mad:

I need a beer    :icon_confused:


Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: WildBlue on 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.   :laugh: :cookoo:


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?  :dunno_white:
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: spc on July 21, 2007, 09:58:06 PM
.,.......I've been talking with my cousin that's doing his post-doc at Yale :o  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.' :laugh:  His work sounds like a shaZam!-ton of fun really :dunno_white:
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: vtlion on July 22, 2007, 06:31:40 AM
 :laugh:

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".
Title: Re: Writing a dissertation....
Post by: vtlion on August 03, 2007, 04:23:38 PM
I'm done writing!  woohoo!!!!   :cheers:

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  :icon_mrgreen:



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!

:bowdown:  ME