Thursday, May 20, 2010

How (not) to motivate new graduate students

I love The Big Bang Theory. Tonight my family and I watched the episode The Cooper-Nowitzi Theorem, (Season 2, Episode 6) which I think is one of the best episodes.

It begins with this "inspiring" speech from Sheldon to the incoming class of graduate students.

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