Theory and Practice

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What people think you do in a PhD
  • No clue
What you actually do
  • Weeping
  • Filling in forms
  • Filling in the correct forms
  • No, not those ones either
  • Grading poorly-defined assignments
  • Comparing your stipend to minimum wage
  • Wondering why no one does code reviews
  • Ramen
  • Applying for jobs that only Stanford grads get
  • Dealing with overfull hbox warnings in LateX,
    a punchcard-compatible text processor that