Is anyone else disenchanted with the reality of academia, vs. the ideal? I am. I'm currently an undergraduate geologist, and having observed PhD students for several years, I now realise that academia is definitely not for me. It's less about the pure pursuit of knowledge, and more about being able to spend days in a lab, competing for money, and specialising in ever-more obscure areas. Quite frankly, I'd rather be out in the field, doing what I love (I'm a geologist), so I'm planning to do a taught masters in petroleum geoscience or similar. This would actually allow me to spend my career doing something relevant to my interests, rather than becoming a glorified teacher. Also, I think I've realised that I'd rather work to live, than live to work. Living to work would be the state of affairs if I were to invest 3-4 years in postgraduate study. Personally I'd rather go and live in Norway or Alberta, fish all summer and snowboard all winter. Oh, and do lots of well-paid geoscience stuff. What are your thoughts on the reality of academia?
>>180 But I'm planning to work as a professional geologist/geoscientist, thus it is a related field. It's an aging profession, and the petrochemical industry needs a lot more of us [/recruiting].
>>181 Okay...because that's not about the money. I'm sure that is about science. Face it, nothing is ever what it seems. Nothing is ever what you ideally believe it to be. It's a common assumption that it is never about the money. It's the 21st century. Everything is about money.
>>182 Yes, money plays a role in most things, but it is a nice extra. Money is important, but it is important not to make it the sole aim of one's life, or so I believe. I do not focus on it, unlike many of my peers (those with whom I went to high school), who are very much focussed on money, regardless of the shittyness of the job.
Censor Bar Art Discuss.
That was EXCELLENT. The existence of the Internet has been justified.
IMG's One-A-Day is a daily sketch group. Anyone can join. Whether you can draw or not. A general concept will be given everyday and you draw what it brings to mind. The sketches can be, just that, sketches or you can color and detail them. Take them as far as you like. Any medium. Critiques are welcome from everyone. If a sketch looks bad to an average Joe, it looks bad period. So feel free to comment. If you post a positive critique post a negative one along with it and visa-versa. Just have fun with it.
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>>157 can other people suggest topics?
draw: a robot with 1 red laser eye
So I'm currently reading the online lecture and it's talking about how inflections in a sentence can modify its meaning, but the examples given are completely insane: *I* didn’t hit your horse : you didn’t hit the persons horse, but someone else may have. I didn’t *hit* your horse: Implies you didn’t hit the horse but may have stabbed it. (?!) I didn’t hit *your* horse: Gives an impression you didn’t hit the persons horse but someone elses. I didn’t hit your *horse*: May mean you didn’t hit his horse but his dog.
*I* like to eat cherries: You like eating cherries, and are implying that other people don't I like to *eat* cherries: Implies that you like doing something to cherries other than eating them I like to eat *cherries*: Implies that you like eating something similar to a cherry, but not an actual cherry amidoinitrite?
>>159 No. The second implies you like to eat cherries, but not to do other things with them. The third implies you like to eat cherries, but not something else.
Your mom is fat: Your mom is *FAT*: Implies your mom is extremely fat. Your mom *is* fat: Implies your mom is, indeed, fat. *Your mom* is fat: Implies your mom is fat. Your *moooooom* is fat: Implies your mom is, in fact, not fat at all.
So, this is my first sketch in about 5 years. Well other than a few doodles once or twice a week. Figured I'd just start all over. Relearn everything. So, I'm going through Bridgman's Complete Works, which this looks nothing like, but I used his technique. Awesome book by the way. 300+ pages and like 1,000+ illustrations. Its fun to be back in the groove for once.
>>160 fug wrong file.
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Trying to write into memory while reading the next instruction FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. I hate this.
...It took like 30 minutes to figure out why quicksort was replacing our data with zeroes.
And we found out that we forgot to wire up register 6 like were supposed to...weeks ago. All of our non-sorting test cases and sort.o work, but bubblesort and quicksort failed. Our processor fails.
I'm learning Icelandic. Check it out: Þu ert feit.
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public schools are a joke
I wish I was...Not only was public school a joke, but it was fukken abu graib for me...quite literally. Imagine being thrown into jail with hardened criminals.. Most of the kids in my area were all from bad families (gangbanging and heavy minority area). It took me more than 38 years to realize it wasn't me that was fucked up, but the people around me.
On the other hand, Small Learning Communities are quite something.
ITT assburgers
ITT the silliest shit you have turned in and gotten full credit for, scans or it didn't happen
Picture, 'cause I didn't have a scanner at the time.
Just finished doing this for my class in dynamic anatomy class...Took me at least 5 hours.
I couldn't find a top down view of a model so I basically did this one freestyle...
Final Project!
