Thursday, August 23, 2007
Best. Defense Title. Ever.
Tomorrow some person I don't know is defending their dissertation, and there are signs all over advertising the defense seminar for it. This is the greatest defense seminar title in the history of science Ph.D.s:
Okay, so the project isn't actually all that exciting unless you're into worm genitalia. This student is from a lab that works on Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic worm which is a model organism for developmental genetics. Presumably coming up with extraordinary new takes on "thinking outside the box" where "box" means "twat" is actually code for "I developed some mutants in genes not having anything to do with pussy, but there you go...these worms have fucked-up pussies anyway." I've always found developmental genetics in model organisms, and particularly in Drosophila melanogaster (flies) or C. elegans to be appallingly tedious. I remember I interviewed at NYU for grad school and they wouldn't stop gushing about their new fly lab, which made me immediately think "scratch NYU off my list." However, maybe I would have given it more thought if I had anticipated that my dissertation would have such an amazing title. "Thinking Outside the Vulva" is a hell of a lot catchier than "Development and Characterization of a Mouse Model of Rhinovirus Pathogenesis."
Thinking Outside the Vulva:
A Non-Vulval Perspective on Vulval Development
A Non-Vulval Perspective on Vulval Development
Okay, so the project isn't actually all that exciting unless you're into worm genitalia. This student is from a lab that works on Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic worm which is a model organism for developmental genetics. Presumably coming up with extraordinary new takes on "thinking outside the box" where "box" means "twat" is actually code for "I developed some mutants in genes not having anything to do with pussy, but there you go...these worms have fucked-up pussies anyway." I've always found developmental genetics in model organisms, and particularly in Drosophila melanogaster (flies) or C. elegans to be appallingly tedious. I remember I interviewed at NYU for grad school and they wouldn't stop gushing about their new fly lab, which made me immediately think "scratch NYU off my list." However, maybe I would have given it more thought if I had anticipated that my dissertation would have such an amazing title. "Thinking Outside the Vulva" is a hell of a lot catchier than "Development and Characterization of a Mouse Model of Rhinovirus Pathogenesis."
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