Today I applied for a couple of vacant TA positions at the history department, so I had to update the CV ... I just hope I (and my colleagues) aren't as bad as Slackenerny! The comic has made a number of jokes about just how much Ph.D. students copy and paste over the years, and most of them are uncomfortably accurate. Being a PhD means that half the time you're recycling old material; most of this recycling is expected, like re-using old lectures or using old papers as the basis for lectures, study guides, and so on; sometimes, though, the recycling heads into areas we don't want to talk about.
Comic is courtesy of Jorge Cham of PHD Comics.
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