JLS

JLS is part self-help, part poor-person philosophy, and total nostalgia. It was the book of the seventies. And I read it until it fell apart. It was followed by a movie too. I remember seeing the movie, but have no idea what it was like. It seems so odd now. I must ask my daughter if there is a similar book for the 2000s. Anyone know?

I thought that once I had graduated with my PhD, I would no longer have to live on other people's garbage. I would choose my own line of research - dive for fish. Being a grad student is like rooting through garbage. If you survive it, you can dive for fish, but to get there you have to dig through a whole lot of muck. And the more competitive the program, the worse it is. I can’t believe how many professors have such an inflated opinion of their value in the world.

I swore I would not be like that. And I'm not because I can't be. I really have so little time.