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- From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: a first year grad student freaks out.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.212852.15368@informix.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:28:52 GMT
- References: <92314.170255RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>
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- In article <92314.170255RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu writes:
- >i'm a first year grad student. i can do most of the homework assigned
- >to me. i can pass tests i have to take. i can usually understand
- >proofs of theorems that we're studying, given some thought. i think
- >that with a lot of work, i can pass my orals.
- >
- >however, what's the deal with this thesis thing? what happens if you
- >simply cannot prove whatever your advisor assigned?
- >
- >bob vesterman.
-
- Oh, you just hang about for ever and ever and eventually you walk into
- your advisors office and kill him with a hammer. They put you away for
- seven years or so (after all, it is *almost* justifiable homocide), you
- eventually get released, still muttering darkly about "other scores
- you still have to settle at Stanfo ...", ooops, at your ex-University.
-
- No big deal. This is a true story.
-