A day in the metallography lab

For NaVloPoMo day 20. This is one of the mundane tasks required before completing a PhD: cutting off lots of little slices of metal that you can then stick into an electron microscope, so you can then scratch your head at the screen and say "Well you can clearly see the micromechanisms of shear transition to what the hell am I looking at?" And then when you make everyone call you Doctor and they think you're being pretentious and it takes every fiber of your being not to stab them to death with your salad fork, it all makes sense. Music (originally by Brad Sucks) remixed by DeathBoy, http://ccmixter.org/media/people/DeathBoy , CC:By3.0.

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• navlopomo
• navlopomo07
• engineering
• research
• grad
• school
• monotony

[nergalk]

where are the rest of the steps? You'd drive the point home further by showing:

mounting the sample, grinding, fine grinding, polishing, fine polishing, hardness tests, microscope work, measurements, analysis... etc.

[shelbinatorTV]

What are you, my advisor? This was just a snippet for NaVloPoMo, dude. No need to bore the people to death.

[nergalk]

my mistake, I thought the point was to show how boring it is as well as how hard it is to explain the process to those who might not get it. quote: "Now you can kinda see why a guy might want to kill himself". quote: "...stab them with a salad fork..." So I drove the point home by adding to it. my bad

[wafeltje666]

lol

very sarcastic yet funny!

keep up the good work :p

[becomingzero]

I do this for a living.

Don't do this for a living.

I've wanted to kill myself.

You will too.