Quantum Buckyball

Hey! Glad to hear that! 

Good work!

congrats

Congratulations!!

received my confirmation of employment today, shit got real. 

they call that the event horizon 

what previous training and accomplishments was this?

programming and coding 

My friend and I were trying to identify those graduated from our program in the past 5 years actually got an offer prior to their dissertation defense and we couldn't identify any. Most people graduate and then stay in the same lab as a short term postdoc while keep applying. 

The program I'm entering has a good placement record, but it's deliberately kept very small. I had a discussion this weekend with a faculty member here, and he told me that they've actually been criticized for being too small. The department's counter was that there was no way they could ever hope to place that many graduates, and it would be irresponsible to on more.

I still don't know what my odds are. I'm hopeful, but you never know. I have my library degree to fall on if all else fails. One can do a lot with a library degree.

We take in 25~30 new students each year, when I entered the program, it was the biggest class ever, we had 34 kids. Long story short, only about 60% of people are completing with a PhD (or attempt to) and the other 40% left the program with or without a MS. I think it's good that your program is aware of surplus of PhDs but my program completely ignored it, they just wanted to make sure they have enough people to teach low level chemistry classes. 

Yeah our area almost lost my position (the only TA) this year, and I will TA for 7 classes!

7? Are you going to have time for any of your work too or...?

Nope, probably not!

Face Off is a much better competition show :-).

Any particular reason why?

Deep.

Me too! One week left of relaxing.

I wrote my own code, then the next papers I cited them. its typical, really!

It is seen quite often in my field.

It seems to me that in many cases self-citing is not only warranted, but necessary.

the new one is great

me too! We just watched the first one last night and will continue for the next three days

Though it does allow me to have a pre-publication version of the paper on my website and on public archives, as long as I uploaded the paper before it was accepted for publication with this journal... but I do have another paper that I can't have on my website so I just say to contact me for more details.

What I meant was that is it legal for people to make a such pompous claim?

Legal? Why not? It doesn't sound like the person lied, just that they have a sad CV and are trying to "beef it up." It will be clear to everyone that it's just that -- bullshit. But bullshit is not illegal...