Chairman of the Data Committee: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep doing those experiments? Do you believe you're collecting data for something? For more that your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the University itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as a graduate programme. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't graduate. It's pointless to keep analyzing data. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?
Graduate Student: Because I choose to.
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Yeah, isn't that the line we all say... I wonder why though.. Is it the satisfaction of seeing our advisor's happiness?
-Kitty Khat
Time to come outof the matrix into the real world!
i am going to stay in the matrix for a while longer.... but here is the thing.. i am going to turn into smith and then watch....
heard from a friend -Two qualities of a grad student: masochism and eternal hope. well in this few years at grad school i think this is perhaps valid.
But then i just choose to have the attitude 'research saves lives' and be stubborn about it, i believe i am not wrong in this.
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