Case 1
Case 2
Case 3
Case 4
I can’t "emphasize" how true the above were, especially in my lab. But, before I ellaborate, I think I should make sure Dr. Krovi is not going to read this – or at least someone is not going to show this to him. Haha!
Case 1: Yeap, this happened often enough. We can rewrite, rephrase, remove, and again put it back, and rewrite the same sentence for weeks, still can’t finalize which is the better sentence to describe what we want to say. Yes, I know this is frustrating, but some times you can realize that you’re looking at the same theme in many different perspectives. [But, I feel like I’m giving myself (ourselves) an excuse, hehe…]
Case 2 & 3: As a "prelude" to this case, I want to first emphasize that I’m not racist, I still have to bring out this fact to highlight the main point in this case. Yeap, as you all know, my advisor is an Indian, and Indian handwritings are sometimes (most of the time?) hard to be read. But, I strongly agree that it is not that their handwriting are bad, but they’re just writing in a calligraphic manner – at least my advisor does that ver strongly. I personally have some English calligraphy background, so my advisor’s writing is still acceptable to me. So, this case is not really a big deal to me. But, I did help many of my colleagues reading the drafts editted by my advisor, like "Mike" in Case 3, haha! [I can’t stop laughing at "teddy bear augmentation…"]
Case 4: Oh, this one… I think this happens the most in our lab. Virtually you just have to have set the "maximum number of iterations" at the deadline (either the conference draft paper submission deadline, or you just have to defend your thesis/dissertation tomorrow), because the optimization process will just not converge at any point in time [It won’t converge, anyway. We can solve the most complex optimization problem with the most novel algorithm, but this problem (which should be first addressed) has not ever been solved]. Well, good luck to me, and good luck to my colleagues as well =)
Oh… I love PhD Comics, haha!
The above comics reflect the senario here too. Is all grad student has the same destiny? Haha…
Haha! I was expecting you. Yeap, this is why PhD Comic is constructed =) Good luck with all the graduate students!
WHAT THE *$%^??? Indians have bad handwriting???? You have seen my handwriting???? Freakin Ding!!!
Ok, except Dr. Gurnani’s =) Yeap, I do agree that your hand-writting is much better. That’s why I said "most of the time", hehe…