Saturday, July 19, 2008
"My Hobby: Sitting down the grad students and timing how long it takes them to figure out that I'm not actually an expert in their field.
Engineering: 'Our big problem is heat dissipation'
'Have you tried logarithms?'
48 seconds
Linguistics: 'Ah, so does this Finno-Ugric family include, say, Klingon?'
63 seconds
Sociology: 'Yeah, my latest work is on ranking people from best to worst'
4 minutes
Literary criticism: 'You see, the deconstruction is inextricable from not only the text, but also the self.'
Eight papers and two books and they haven't caught on."
Labels:
academia,
comics,
literature
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