Non genius applicants

mutation
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:44:45 +0000

grad students complain about everything! i think it is because somewhere someone told people it was cool to act like you are totally miserable… no small part thanks to piled higher and deeper, i am sure.
yes, grad school is a lot of work. yes, it is difficult to get in. yes, you spend most of your time trying to figure out what is going wrong. but keep in mind the alternative- ie shuffling paper. for one thing it is important to realize that you are making significant contributions to knowledge (no matter how arcane the grad students complain about it being) and you get to spend your whole life learning. plus, most people think you are smart because you are in the sciences (although we all know how stupid we really are).
complaining by grad students gets really old- it is nothing more than their way of proving to everyone else that they are working hard and suffering for their “art”. yawn.
of course, i like to complain a lot myself :)