http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2006/04/19/done-done-on-to-the-next-one a beautiful blog by daniel sandler Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:04:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2006/04/19/done-done-on-to-the-next-one/comment-page-1#comment-3113 Emil Sit » Grad School Television Fri, 12 May 2006 14:12:44 +0000 http://dsandler.org/wp/archives/2006/04/19/done-done-on-to-the-next-one#comment-3113 [...] Maybe try to identify a high excitement event: a major paper deadline, structured into a 24-style show. Errors in data or experimental method discovered hours or days before the deadline, frantic re-runs of experiments, re-plotting of graphs, adviser re-writes of major sections of text, and running pdflatex up until the last minute. Unfortunately, there’s not a really satisfying conclusion there. You don’t find out what happens for a few months, and by then it’s just Season 2: do the same thing all over to address all the reviewer comments and submit the camera-ready. [...] [...] Maybe try to identify a high excitement event: a major paper deadline, structured into a 24-style show. Errors in data or experimental method discovered hours or days before the deadline, frantic re-runs of experiments, re-plotting of graphs, adviser re-writes of major sections of text, and running pdflatex up until the last minute. Unfortunately, there’s not a really satisfying conclusion there. You don’t find out what happens for a few months, and by then it’s just Season 2: do the same thing all over to address all the reviewer comments and submit the camera-ready. [...]

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