 |
So this was a (random) Tuesday afternoon on which six of us, more familiarly known as the "dull minds" met up for lunch for perhaps the last time in a long while. Incidentally, I don't quite remember how the dull mind name came about...but I think it had something to do with a "meeting of the minds" kind of thing that some other BWRC researchers inflated their egos with....
Who the heck are we, anyway? Just six (now former) graduate students at UC Berkeley studying analog integrated circuits (yeah, never mind that I've gone to the dark side of digital in my career now) in the EECS department.
|
Between the six of us, there are seven failed prelim attempts, and only one prelim pass; two bay-area-weather-haters (east-coasters), and enough influence to make anyone decide that grad school is a waste of time (case in point: see Mark Chew). We all jumped the grad school ship with Masters degrees, realising that the Ph.D is better left for people who actually like doing random research in an academic environment.
Besides that, we all tracked each other in our graduate coursework, and spent way too much time collaborating on term projects and gossiping about other grad students during our weekly excusions to the southside or the westside for lunch. So it's no surprise that we all "officially" finished at the same time with the same attitude toward grad school: Get me out of here!!!! =P