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Reminds me a bit of Faq: The “Snake Fight” Portion Of Your Thesis Defense https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defen
by tempaway43211 3y ago
Reminds me a bit of
Faq: The “Snake Fight” Portion Of Your Thesis Defense
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defense https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-port...
- Galacta7 3y agoOne of my favorite McSweeney's articles. It only gets more hilarious towards the end. Very funny satirical take on some of the more bizarre (but very real) traditions in academia.
- op00to 3y agoQ: Are the snakes big? A: We have lots of different snakes. The quality of your work determines which snake you will fight. The better your thesis is, the smaller the snake will be. So many layers of hilarity. The undertone of academic smugness and superiority. A++++
- lxgr 3y ago> Although if you get a poisonous snake, it often means that there was a problem with the formatting of your bibliography. The Python reimplementation of BibTeX can’t be done soon enough.