your graduate-life-in-pictures

Your Graduate Life in Pictures

Olivier Danvy

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Braga, Portugal, 8 July 2011

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You make the jump and start PhD studies

Olivier Danvy, GTTSE 2011 (Other students wing it, surely you will open up too.) 1 / 42

Your PhD adviser and you


You and your PhD adviser


PhD adviser, students, and postdocs


Thank God it’s Friday


Your undergrad studies (memories)


Your grad studies (today)


Your adviser helps you get organized


But soon you get a funny feeling


You don’t quite feel in control


Research quite seems like a mine field


How should one proceed exactly?

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Should you rather do something else?

Olivier Danvy, GTTSE 2011 (In the industry, you could afford a decent vehicle.) 13 / 42

Naah. You’ll be watchful


You study induction (and the domino effect)

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You learn to surf (teacher’s view)


Or at least you try (student’s view)


You experience a new moment of doubt


So you take a break to see nature

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You smell the flowers


Your first idea: use a binary structure!


You explain your idea to your PhD adviser


You give your first research talk

Olivier Danvy, GTTSE 2011 (Today, the cars. And tomorrow: the cdrs!) 23 / 42

And you submit your first paper


You get one kind of peer reviewer

Olivier Danvy, GTTSE 2011 (“Please look at me, not at where I am looking!”) 25 / 42

You also get the other kind

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The day your first paper was accepted

Olivier Danvy, GTTSE 2011 (If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.) 27 / 42

You get to meet other PhD students

Olivier Danvy, GTTSE 2011 (And boy do they look different.) 28 / 42

You reflect

Olivier Danvy, GTTSE 2011 (Covariantly. Or is it contravariantly?) 29 / 42

You find the bug what slowed you down


Now you can go faster


And your system is way faster too


You innovate regarding race conditions


You go to sleep later and later

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Your PhD advisor is as helpful as ever

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You complete your PhD dissertation


And yes, you remember to spell check


Your PhD defense looms

Olivier Danvy, GTTSE 2011 (No man is an island, but right now you feel like one.) 38 / 42

You see a sign from God


After graduation (subjective view)


After graduation (objective view)


And then you move on and fly away


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