1. Your Graduate Life in Pictures
Olivier Danvy
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Braga, Portugal, 8 July 2011
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2. You make the jump and start PhD studies
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3. Your PhD adviser and you
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4. You and your PhD adviser
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5. PhD adviser, students, and postdocs
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6. Thank God it’s Friday
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7. Your undergrad studies (memories)
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8. Your grad studies (today)
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9. Your adviser helps you get organized
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10. But soon you get a funny feeling
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11. You don’t quite feel in control
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12. Research quite seems like a mine field
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13. How should one proceed exactly?
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14. Should you rather do something else?
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15. Naah. You’ll be watchful
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16. You study induction (and the domino effect)
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17. You learn to surf (teacher’s view)
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18. Or at least you try (student’s view)
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19. You experience a new moment of doubt
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20. So you take a break to see nature
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21. You smell the flowers
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22. Your first idea: use a binary structure!
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23. You explain your idea to your PhD adviser
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24. You give your first research talk
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25. And you submit your first paper
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26. You get one kind of peer reviewer
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27. You also get the other kind
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28. The day your first paper was accepted
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29. You get to meet other PhD students
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30. You reflect
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31. You find the bug what slowed you down
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32. Now you can go faster
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33. And your system is way faster too
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34. You innovate regarding race conditions
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35. You go to sleep later and later
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36. Your PhD advisor is as helpful as ever
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37. You complete your PhD dissertation
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38. And yes, you remember to spell check
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39. Your PhD defense looms
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40. You see a sign from God
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41. After graduation (subjective view)
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42. After graduation (objective view)
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43. And then you move on and fly away
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