Re: [Leica] PhD qualifications

["Bill Larsen" <ohlen@lightspeed.net>]

ROFL

My thesis was on the analysis of the spatial distribution of aged persons in
Long Beach, California.  But just prior to the thesis, I had written a paper
on the lateral distribution of e.coli from arctic DEW sites in freeze and thaw
conditions over time.  Both thesis and paper, I am sure, have had significant
impact upon our culture.  I just know that if I actually get to the arctic
tundra, I
am not going to drink the snow nor water without boiling it first.  Not
suitable for a
PhD dissertation because rather than piled deeper and higher it just spreads
laterally.

Regards, Bill Larsen

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From: KPETERS <KPETERS@huntel.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] PhD qualifications


|Hey, I'm not knocking grad school! Thanks to it I am now able to afford a
|Leica! ha!  KPeters
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|From: R. Saylor <KPETERS@huntel.net>
|To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
|Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 11:20 PM
|Subject: Re: [Leica] PhD qualifications
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|From:           "KPETERS" <KPETERS@huntel.net>
|To:             <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
|Subject:        Re: [Leica] PhD qualifications
|Date sent:      Thu, 26 Aug 1999 22:29:37 -0500
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|> I'm not sure if this was touched on, but when I was in grad school, the
|> terms were B.S. (bullshit), M.S. ("more shit"), and then, Ph.D ("piled
|> higher, and deeper!")....
|> ps.  My masters thesis was on the identification of mosquito vectors of
|the
|> dog heartworm in Nebraska!  What  a hoot that was!!
|
|I beg to disagree with your putting down the importance of grad
|school. My Ph.D. thesis was something like "Generalized Boundary
|Values in the Dirichlet Problem" (Rice U., 1966). By now I'm sure it
|is a favorite topic of conversation at the breakfast table all over
|America and perhaps the world.  :-)
|
|Richard S.
|
|P.S. Speedy recovery to Dr. Blacktape.
|