PhD Word Play

T

Would that be affected by www.caughtwithmysupervisor.com?

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that link directs to www.filemysupervisor.ac.uk

S

it would, but then it would be

finishedwithsupervisor.com

4

haha, I've actually tried www.iwantmylifeback.com on the browser. Try it, the result is quite silly.

S

i also understand that finishedwithsupervisor.com has links to failmyPhd.com

4

www.anydoctorsonboard?.com

T

An old supervisor of mine told me a story when he was going to a conference in the US, and halfway through the flight a stewardess came up to his seat and asked if he could take a look at an elderly lady who was experiencing chest pain. Unfortunately, doctors of grassland ecology are not much use.

(Moral of the story: don't put Dr. when booking your tickets!)

4

Yes thecoastman, I totally agree. But my friend who recently passed his viva booked a cheap flight to Europe-somewhere, just to experience that feeling.

D

I'm gonna get a tshirt saying "just because I'm doing a PhD doesnt mean I'm clever."
I'm sure i dissapoint people who dont know me but think I must be clever every time I open my mouth

C

Hehe.. its like the person who found out I was doing a neuroscience degree and spent the next 15 minutes sitting in front of me saying "Go on, tell me what I'm thinking, what can you see, what am I thinking about???"

S

Or indeed an old school friend of mine (who never went to university) thinking that I would know everything about anything.

In fact, if there was one thing that university did teach me, it was that I know very little about anything!

C

Yes - there are always those people that seem to know everything about anything (you know those that can answer every question in a pub quiz?)
People don't believe me that I know nothing - just more about brains than the average person!

4

Claudia, it's a strange reference but what you said reminded me my old job. I used to re-touch old photographs of people's loved ones (always dead people for some reason). For this, I used to meet the client to collect as many photographs as possible to produce a realistic image. One day a client met me with no photographs and started to describe how his father looked like before he died. When I realised that he thought I could produce an image with no pictures and told him this was not possible, he started to shout at me saying things like "what kind of an artist are you, I came all the way to get a photograph, you are a fraud blah blah..."

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