8.27.2008

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Yesterday I had a talk with my advisor. It got me thinking about my academic career. So I made a graph:

5 comments:

Jobonga said...

I can't tell if winning the geography bowl is a rise or fall in status. And I am curious about the unexplained rise during your fifth year of grad school. Does that mean you smiled a lot during your meeting? Do you think you are in fact ultimately headed down as low as the bagpipe incident?

wb said...

Winning the Geo Bowl pulled me out of the random kid in a new school syndrome. It said, "Hi, I'm Whitney, and I'm smarter than you."

The final bump relates directly to the amount of smiling I did on Tuesday.

mynda said...

I just asked katie about the bagpipe incident and she laughed and told me the story, but not really. So I think I need to hear it. I'm sorry it was such a low!

schmatie said...

i forget what the real story is. i just made something up about "too much glue." in any case, we laughed.

Papa Bear said...

I printed this out and put it up in my cubicle. Both for personal inspiration and because it has an uncanny resemblance to an FTIR chromatograph. My coworker Crystal is also extremely curious about 'the bagpipe incident.' Future post topic?