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I will not be taking questions at this time

 By dixie

May 26th

Adding further insult to crippling injury, WAG called a group meeting this afternoon. This afternoon being Memorial Day, one of the few holidays Americans get. I would have skipped it, along with the rest of my group, except I’m trying to be a good little postgrad and curry enough favo(u)r to graduate in time to [...]

Isolation Station

 By uber

April 24th

Life is about to get really tough for me. I’m at the thesis writing phase, and I have a few pieces of code left to run while I write the first bits. My supervisor has given me a deathline, which I shall not pass without having handed the college a nice thesis.
I’m considering plan [...]

Speaking truth to those outside the bubble

 By dixie

April 4th

Y’all will weary of my shoving PhD cartoons in your digital faces, but I do try to package each fangirl link with a Real Life Story that is both timely and true. I’m not sure how Jorge manages to write comics that directly relate to problems I’m facing, but he does, and I continue to [...]

Not a real blog entry

 By dixie

March 5th

I’m still sort of in shock over Gygax failing his last save, and I have a lot of work to do before tomorrow’s meeting, but I stumbled across yet another PhD comic that I must share. Not because it’s true or funny (though it is both), but because I’ve been having conversations about the political [...]

You can tell where he’s doing his post-doc

 By dixie

February 13th

PhD never, ever fails to entertain. The only reason I don’t show every single comic to everyone and say “This is the truest thing I have ever read,” is because I figured it would get dull for y’all pretty quickly.
Today I break the streak, not because Jorge has perfectly and succinctly expressed a universal [...]

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