Finding Laughs
The application’s in! So it’s time to laugh at graduate work a little. Really, doing a Ph.D. is probably something like parenthood. You join this club, and suddenly all these things that used to make no sense feel like second nature. The most important thing? The dissertation. So I got a good laugh at these guys. And since I’ve put off having a family because of my work, I laughed at this comic too.
Now that I’m actually in Spain, starting my research, the whole process is starting to make sense and I feel like what I’m doing is worthwhile more often than not. But really, the amount of self-doubt and wallowing that happens in a Ph.D. program is astounding. Which is why a good laugh can really help things.
Where have you found a good laugh recently? While in Spain I’m missing my old standby of the Daily Show…
Tags: Ph.D., Ph.D. comics
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:03 pm
The puppies are keeping my laughing and smiling active, even when I don’t think I have it in me. Other than that? I get my doses here and there, it’s random 🙂 It’s so important though and I am realizing that just letting go and doing something creative or just reading is too. We have to give ourselves time to just ‘be’…and for me, it’s much easier said then done for sure! But now that I am really forced too, I really am feeling it, and hope to make it a habit 😉 Love you~xoxoxo
October 24th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
You are such a sunny chica, and I never think of you as a wallower. But, yes, grad school has SO many mountains to climb and SO many uncertainties (which both of us adore, eh?!?!). I agree that laughter is important—whether it’s inspired by our cat or odd people wearing odd outfits in Berkeley :>