RESmonkey

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University professors are...always busy, unresponsive, and ... mysterious. Delusional? Eh. I wouldn't know.
 

theflyingpig

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If we're playing like that, it's what percent of them believe in some crazy religion.
Everyone knows this.

You aren't a true PhD if you believe in some crazy religion. Religion is the sanctuary of fools. PhD's aren't fools. Everyone knows this.
 

PlasmaBomb

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dude it's theflyingpig. he/she/it transcends such notions.

Indeed theflyingpig manages to be 100% serious whilst being 100% troll, sometimes if you are really (un)lucky he manages to be 100% annoying too...
 

SooperDave

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HP posted on a Sat. night and it wasn't some drunken incoherent
rambling with a reference to shit eating. Next thing you know pigs will fly. Oh, wait.....
 
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Tiamat

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The percentage of them who worked in industry first, then went to get their PhD, then returned to industry.
 

IronWing

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PhDs tend to have strange ideas about why people should give them money and no concept whatsoever of what deadlines or contractual obligations are. Other than that, they're usually pretty smart and well socialized.

If you hire one you have to keep it on a short leash and dole out the money as work is completed. Never, never, never, really never, like never squared, give a PhD project money upfront. They'll piss it away on computers and conference attendance and come back for more while trying to get a grad student or undergrad class to do the actual work.