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  1. 06-23-2015, 07:03 PM #21
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    I give lots of advise. Unfortunately, 'Don't listen to me' is written across my forehead, visible to all but me!
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    "Don't be stubborn. You are missing out."
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    Quote Originally Posted by WW243 View Post
    Tom, I respectfully disagree and I am seeking your advice as an advisor: If I am wearing red hot pants and a crop top how would I sharpen a true wedge with a barbers notch with a Uranium hone with a hyperbolic paraboloid shaped honing surface?
    With two layers of tape.

    Duh!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Utopian View Post
    With two layers of tape.

    Duh!
    What a wealth of experience we have on this forum!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matheus View Post
    I am the advisor for 1 doc, 4 master degree and a cluster of undergrads. My role is - mainly - to kick back the kids to their tracks on research when they derail. And they derail often! Boyfriends, Girlfriends, car wrecks, mama and papa fighting, alcohol, drugs, party, party, party, party, coffee shortage... everything can potentially derail a student. Hard to keep them inside the pen.

    Advisor have a pretty different meaning here.


    Ah, so you know what my professor went through 40 yrs ago.

    some things never change
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    Let me try my foreteller skills... you get married.
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