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...these more envelope-pushing, wince-provoking skits demonstrate exactly why the puppet is an ingenious mechanism for ensuring the satisfaction and mental stability of grad students. Beyond providing a chance to sit back and chuckle at shared geekiness over a couple of beers, the show provides a legitimate feedback pathway for students to not-so-discreetly air their grievances. The nature of the show provides a relatively anonymous barrier between the Faculty being skewered and the underlings doing the skewering, so that small (and even not-so-small) grievances can be aired in the most blatant and overwrought manner imaginable...
...power of such a means of veiled yet brutally honest communication with Faculty cannot be underestimated. In fact, such an outlet for relatively anonymous, highly visible and responsive feedback might have prevented the recent tragedies in the chemistry department. For this reason, every department ought to have such a useful release valve/suggestion box/comic troupe, especially those disciplines in the hard sciences where pressure on graduate students can silently build to soul-crushing magnitudes. I understand that other departments, saddled with a typical non-physics inferiority complex, might cringe at the idea of directly lifting the puppet show concept from...
...else would make of it, if what I want to get across is coming across. For my thesis stories, I’ve been giving my advisor drafts to read, and he gives me comments that usually make sense to me, with what I feel is accurate and useful feedback. After that I usually just do one big revision, making minor changes after that. I am thinking about getting more readers for my thesis later on in the process, but it is also good not to have a million people telling you a million different things, which sometimes happens...
...moments for me so far on my job search occurred after a second-round interview I had in New York, said senior Taub, who is deeply involved in the e-recruiting process. I never usually say this, but I thought this interview went incredibly well, and I received wonderful feedback from those interviewing me. In the end, however, the company decided that it just couldnt afford to hire anyone...
...splendid juggler—one of the best out there,” Weeks says. “What he said to me was that there’s just a different crowd. The feedback just wasn’t as welcoming as it once...