Thursday, March 22, 2007

What is research?


Well... it is just one fucking thing after another.

Yes thats what it is!

First, you do something like literature survey. This is a painsaking process of deciphering all the crap shit other researchers have published over the years ever since the scientific community invented something called the Nobel Prize. These research papers include fanciful photographs and other complicated mathematical models or simulations. Sometimes it is highly suspected that these papers are written for the sake of giving out phDs or for the university to become so called "world class".

Next, you need to do experiments. These experiments sometimes consists of replicating experiments that had been done by other researchers to see if they are cheating, faking results, manipulating data, very lucky, or the more probable reason, to see if u are just plain stupid. Most of the time, you get wierd data. If u are a scientist, then great... you could have discovered something new, something that will contribute to mankind and you might just win the nobel prize. BUT if u are a fyp student, most probably its because the equipment u are using has its limitations (in layman's term: Fucking lousy) or that you are just not blessed with good luck.

Then u write your thesis, 100 pages of nonsense that your prof most probably won't be interested in. Why? Because it is full of procedural elaboration, failure descriptions, non-conclusive analysis and maybe lot of ideas in the future work section.

What to do with unaccomplished objectives?! Simple,
Step1: Remove them from the first chapter under the experimental objectives list.
Step2: Put them under the future work list.

Get the idea?!

2 more weeks!!! Cheers to the end of torture... welcome to exams and then unemployment...

Well, it really is ... one fucking thing after another.....

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