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As a current graduate student I am speaking to you reader from the 'other side'. Before you young'uns getting out of undergrads take the plunge you should know a few facts of life in grad school. | As a current graduate student I am speaking to you reader from the 'other side'. Before you young'uns getting out of undergrads take the plunge you should know a few facts of life in grad school. | ||
| − | [[Image:Babypic.jpg| | + | [[Image:Babypic.jpg|thumb|center|An average undergrad in the eyes of a graduate student.]] |
| − | First you won't be playing with cool looking machines like this - | + | First you won't be playing with cool looking machines like this - |
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| + | [[Image:Mbe.jpg|thumb|center|Kids this is the manifestation of the death ray machine from your nightmares]]If your laboratory sessions during your junior/senior years has taught you anything, then you should know that these things cost money, ''real'' money. So you won't doing stuff with it untill you have undergone extensive training, which saps all your enthusiasm (and the will to live). | ||
Revision as of 10:31, 18 July 2010
The one word answer to this question (as Shakespeare himself would have said) is - NO! And a two word answer would be It depends.
As a current graduate student I am speaking to you reader from the 'other side'. Before you young'uns getting out of undergrads take the plunge you should know a few facts of life in grad school.
First you won't be playing with cool looking machines like this -
