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.
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I surprised you didn't comment on the Organic PhD thread.
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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
ReplyDeleteIn 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.
At least he had a better pitch for joining the Dark Side than my graduate program did:
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"You should have made more starting material. Search your feelings - you know it to be true!"
ReplyDeleteAnother excellent PI/grad student discussion with the same theme: http://syntheticremarks.com/?p=2044
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