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Originally posted by the Bear:
i raise you this:
=> Barclays Bankers jet off to Italy for lavish £500,000 banquet
.....I guess those #$^&^&$#% execs need to unwind before they can #%$#%## resolve the crisis, eh?
How about those #$#(*$#@$ execs finance the bailout of Average Joes who may lose their life savings and be kicked out of their own homes?
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Originally posted by Ferret:
that cb fuckerMy curses are for the AIG executive board......
AIG executives spend USD$443,000 on retreat just days after bailout
Edited by fudgester 10 Oct `08, 11:11PM
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Originally posted by cassie:
if it were me, i'll take option (2). no point doing something you don't wanna do and waste about half a semester of work.
Fudge, take your time and think about it. anyway you don't really have to make a decision in the next hour.
Huh.... but I want to do my current project leh..... I like what I'm doing!
I need to go for option (1) in that case, and pray that I can find a suitable prof to replace my outgoing prof. It's finding a suitable prof that will be difficult.... my outgoing prof is the only one who's really good at my field of research. The other profs are all specialists in their own fields which are only somewhat related to mine. So I cannot be assured of proper support.
If I were to take option (2), all my current work will go down the drain. But then I can at least be assured that I have adequate support from above for the next 3 1/2 years, because I know that my next supervisor will be good at whatever project I'll be doing. And as my outgoing prof has pointed out, losing 1/2 year of work is better than having inadequate support for the next 3 1/2 years.
Arrrgh... dilemma..... dilemma..... I have a headache....
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Just talked to my prof..... he'll be leaving in January.
He laid out the options for my future, and they are:
1. Continue with my project and find a new supervisor who's willing and able to take it up.
2. Abandon this project totally. Find a new supervisor and a totally new project.
My preference is (1). I really like the project that I'm doing, and it's totally relevant to what I'll be doing in the future when I work at the environment ministry. And my prof did say that even in his new uni, he can still act as a secondary supervisor - and he might even be able to bring me over to work with him for a few months.
But the difficult part is finding a primary supervisor who's willing to take me on (and works in this research field). I need one good professor who's physically at NUS who can do this. And the hard part is.... many of the profs don't work in this field, and many of them have quite a lot of postgrads under them already anyway.
Going for (2) is the easy way out...... but then it would mean having to totally abandon one semester of work! Even the modules that I'm taking this semester would go to waste because they're actually cross-departmental modules which are relevant only to my research!
Arrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh..... how how how?!?!
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Originally posted by tare:
the qns would then be, who will be carrying the burden? the young horny couple or their parents?My Sec 4 form teacher (I still keep in touch with her) once told me about one of her students..... a Sec 2 girl. 14 years old.
You guessed it: the girl and her bf got frisky , and the girl got pregnant.
She carried the baby to full term.... If I'm not wrong, she didn't put the baby up for adoption.... now her family is raising the baby together.
Not sure about the boyfriend.... dollars to donuts say that they probably broke up. Think he was also only 14 years old then.
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At this time when I was 17 years old, I was struggling with my JC1 promos......
But people like Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin..... they are already mothers at that age. That's an infinitely heavier burden than what everyone else their age has to go through.
Before you drop your pants.... think of the consequences!
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Originally posted by av98m:
ok...what did you destroy this time?Feeling depressed over my prof leaving NUS for good.
I can't help but wonder - for how long had he been considering this? After all, it was just three months ago that he took me in as his newest postgrad student. And he also took in a few honours students under his tutelage just two months ago!
I wonder what this means for my project - and my future supervisor, whoever that is going to be.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
crap.. uhh.. is there any way he can drag you along to that uni?Nah.... that's not possible.
My funding from the government is specifically tied down to NUS. If I were to go elsewhere, things would get really, really messy.
Arrrgh! I specifically chose him as my supervisor because he's a good guy whom I can work with very well!
Which prof willingly pays cash upfront to his students so that they can buy the equipment they need?!?!
And which prof willingly tornadoes his own office just to look for a reference book that his students would find useful?!?!
Whatever the case, I'm meeting him this Friday for a long, hard talk. Got a lot of issues to sort out with him - his future involvement in my project, my future supervisor, etc....
Edited by fudgester 08 Oct `08, 4:25PM
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Originally posted by Fatum:
since NUS is among the top 20 in the world, is he trading up, or trading down ? ....
Nah...... I don't care about rankings....
But right now I'm pretty knocked out.... trying to think straight.... one single thought is dominating my mind right now:
I've just started my postgraduate campaign...... just half a semester has passed....
...... and I'M ALREADY GOING TO LOSE MY SUPERVISOR!??!?! Arrrrghhhh!!!!!!!!
Edited by fudgester 08 Oct `08, 4:14PM
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