an empirical study of the effect of sleep deprivation on my Ph.D. thesis

I just attempted to write a sentence ending with the phrase " . . . which is a parameter controlled by the magnetic field."

Instead and wholly unintentionally, I wrote " . . . which is a parameter controlled by magic."

:smack:

I’m not even sure what the difference is anymore. :frowning:

Wait, we can ascribe things to magic now? I want all those hours of head-scratching over nonsensical data back!

It’s all smoke and mirrors anyway…

When I read threads about people and their post-grad work, I smugly reassure myself I did the right thing by not pursuing an advanced degree. And, in all honesty, it wouldn’t have helped my career. It would have opened doors along another path, but I like what I do just fine…

But good luck to you! And take a nap. :wink:

Thanks. :slight_smile:

Once when I was teaching one of the undergraduate lab sections, I had a student tell me that he had been thinking about going on to grad school, but seeing how exhausted I looked all semester had convinced him not too. Probably not the inspiration I should have been instilling in my students, but I still kind of took pride in it.

My husband is a Ph.D. student right now for clinical psychology (first semester.) I’ve applied for my MSW and I’m considering going all the way, but I’m going to watch him carefully for a while first. If he morphs into something unrecognizable or collapses and has to be hauled away by the paramedics, I may opt to be happy with a Masters. (So far he is mostly sane but spends an exorbitant amount of his weekend time yelling at the computer screen.)

You, get some sleep. The world needs your knowledge.

Once in grad school, I was so tired while trying to finish my final papers one semester that I wrotethe same exact sentence twice in a row, and didn’t notice until I got the graded paper back. Luckily the prof didn’t mark off for it (it was a perfectly grammatical, relevant, and properly cited sentence).

Sleep deprivation sucks.

“I think you should be more explicit here in step two.”