Grad School

What is grad school like? I read this sentence today:

Inspection of eigenvalues and the scree plot revealed that a five-factor solution was the most adequate and parsimonious factor structure.

Eventually this sentence came along:

The solution was subjected to a orthogonal varimax rotation as none of the correlations between factors were greater than .4.

SCREE!!!!!! That's so varimax.

Honestly, I don't know what those sentences mean and that is what grad school is like. A lot of reading of things of thing I read in the past but have forgotten or things I haven't read and sometimes don't understand. Then writing a paper about it that's supposed to show that I understood what I read.

I am either reading or typing. Reading. Typing. That is what I do. My whole schedule is off. I somehow started going to sleep at 2 and waking up at 10.

Honestly, I haven't had this much work to do in a very long time. My legs hurt from sitting. My arms hurt from typing. I make myself go to the gym but I have to wear my timer so I don't spend more than an hour working out.

I just wrote the crappiest paper ever about culture, thick description, and the purpose of ethnographic research.

The best news I received this year is that I can use the book as the basis for my Lib. and Info Science seminar paper. I almost cried when the professor said it was okay.


At least someone has taken the time to write a comic about this crazy life.