Wednesday, December 5, 2012

An evening funny


Back tomorrow with more.

Stolen from synthesisman's post on the chemistry Reddit. I admit I heard this a couple of times in graduate school. 

5 comments:

  1. I surprised you didn't comment on the Organic PhD thread.

    http://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/14cdc2/considering_an_organic_phd/

    ReplyDelete
  2. Reminds me of a certain Oxford Professor of Organic Chemistry when I was there in the early 80s. If you want a laugh, go over to youtube and watch the following "cutting edge" documentary made in 1986, which is in 3 parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhzxlcVjJis
    In one of the sections, there's a scene with the prof grilling some hapless grad student over his lack of progress. Happy days!
    My old organic chemistry tutor is in it, too.

    ReplyDelete
  3. At least he had a better pitch for joining the Dark Side than my graduate program did:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I71Z_V_pksk

    ReplyDelete
  4. "You should have made more starting material. Search your feelings - you know it to be true!"

    ReplyDelete
  5. Another excellent PI/grad student discussion with the same theme: http://syntheticremarks.com/?p=2044

    ReplyDelete

looks like Blogger doesn't work with anonymous comments from Chrome browsers at the moment - works in Microsoft Edge, or from Chrome with a Blogger account - sorry! CJ 3/21/20