this is funny...

... if you have any idea what it's like to be a graduate student.

last night, tired and frustrated, i googled "doctoral thesis angst", and came across the following link that made me laugh:
How to Write a Ph.D. Dissertation

the title doesn't sound all that funny, but the tone is sooo worth it.

my job right now is to write tons and tons summarizing everything i've done in the past several years, and i'm trying to get a rough draft of this 100 page-ish document done by spring break. (we will see...) some days i can sit still and work for hours and get lots done. other days, it seems hopeless, and i'm just grumpy for awhile before i get to work. but when it comes down to it, the thesis defense is kind of an odd feeling -- that 5 years of grad school will be summarized in a super long document that not that many people will read, and into an hour presentation. it somehow seems anticlimactic. of course, it will be somewhat stressful, but it's odd to think that after all this time and all this stress it basically comes down to this.... oi...

anyhow, hopefully you'll find the link half as humorous as i did...

the end.