Grad School Be Like...

[@Quid231]

Relatives: ''Wooow, the name of your graduate thesis sounds so cool! So what do you do?'' Billy: ''I put rock on a scale.'' Relatives: *cricket sound* Professors: ''Aaaah, an expert on gravity.''

[@Pitusha]

True connoisseurs

[@yaujj65]

It was a big rock Also nice Batman Animated reference

[@johnpaulcross424]

Currently in grad school for biology, the part about rehashing old research as “novel” information is horrifyingly painfully accurate. I hate my life.

[@Cahangir]

Don't hate. Just stay open minded, who knows maybe something truly interesting/revolutionizing is just around the corner.

[@Saturnius]

@@Cahangir idk man. Sounds like cope to me lol.

[@ryanblais6208]

“So, there’s this cutting-edge scientist named Gregor Mendel…” lol

[@mason4354]

"rehash but DON'T YOU DARE DO A PLAGIARISM"

[@ali-om4uv]

That was a masterpiece! You described 5 years of the finest times of my Life :).Academia is the noblest art of vasting time.

[@mugen153]

And here I am writing my thesis to be defended in a week. This video came out just at the right time.

[@cerealport2726]

you'll be fine, just channel your inner Billy... what could possibly go wrong?

[@viluir]

Good luck!

[@sadiqali2010]

ayo let us know how it goes

[@santiagom.3540]

How it went bud?

[@chuckchan4127]

So...

[@greatbarrierleaf4625]

“You think we fail people on these?” Lmfao

[@ryanblais6208]

Isn’t this basically particle physics in the last few decades, just reweighing the W or Z boson and saying it’s going to revolutionize physics if it’s off by one millionth of a percent from theoretical values?

[@mamneo2]

Incroyable.

[@ko-Daegu]

Maybe if the theory Al part wasn’t driven by political agenda and proof maybe we would have laid out a perfect foundation for practical part

[@ryanblais6208]

@@mamneo2 oui, c’est ça

[@reformed_attempt_1]

you have no idea what you're talking about I never heard of anyone "reweighing" the W or Z boson

[@reformed_attempt_1]

although to be fair, true, if you're in some garbage group, they do all types of useless stuff

[@lampooner_no_42]

The 1000 tabs open with articles triggered me

[@tonyzaayter1606]

That's the smartest most accurate video ever done in the history of man-bloody-kind.

[@desantamichell3455]

Meanwhile, my advisor be like: "This is clearly not novel enough. I need more this, more that, more experiment, so no publication this year!" "But what about my graduation plan?" "That's not my problem."

[@andrewwashburn9357]

The Professor character is really spot on. “Wait, no instructions here?” Then passing the thesis defense, “it would be too much work to fail you.” Good stuff man!

[@cerealport2726]

Based on the lack of knowledge (in their own field) displayed by some colleagues with PhDs, this video is an objective documentary. Then there are the people who submit essentially the same paper to multiple conferences just to increase their publication count. Of course not every PhD is like this, but it's far more common than it should be. Stupid me, though, no PhD, and only 4 papers published in the last few years. Serves me right for aiming for quality over quantity, I guess...

[@w.o.jackson8432]

Does a conference presentation even count as a publication?

[@cerealport2726]

@@w.o.jackson8432 Why would it not count? It's a paper submitted to the conference, and published by the conference organisers...

[@w.o.jackson8432]

@@cerealport2726 It doesn't undergo peer review. The "publication" process for a conference is that you submit an abstract for work you probably haven't even completed yet, and then you get to talk about it in front of other people in your field. It's not a mark of scientific rigor or accuracy beyond some bare minimum level of writing skills to form coherent sentences. Additionally, a paper published in a journal is going to have a lot more necessary detail than a conference submission, which often includes "tentative" data, speculation, and potentially less fleshed out theoretical backing (or none at all).

[@AAhmou]

@@w.o.jackson8432 Technically it counts for something, it's just not peer reviewed. You're much better off if you manage to publish the paper on a Scopus Journal.

[@w.o.jackson8432]

@@AAhmou If it isn't peer reviewed it doesn't count for anything.

[@sarcasticgamin]

Nice to know that my grad school isn’t the only one where instructors are a thing of the past

[@mamneo2]

Incroyable.

[@rollinas1]

Me in grad school, literally wetting myself of how accurate this is. It would be too realistic if Billy was a student from certain parts of Asia or Africa. [EDIT] Well that went off the rails. Not sure it is a good sign lol

[@Vulpesune]

My grad school has been nothing like this, ha. But I'm going in for Computer Science.

[@smallfryskilledge1550]

@@Vulpesunewhat is grad school like for Computer Science?

[@JamWithBread1]

@@smallfryskilledge1550 the part where he wrote the code to open the file

[@Vulpesune]

@@JamWithBread1 I wish, most of it has focused on what you do before you even write the code. Lots of architecture design and modeling. Security, operating systems, user interface are upcoming. The coding classes were in the front-end of the program, and I tested out of the pre-requisite ones, giving me only one that I could enjoy.

[@smallfryskilledge1550]

@@Vulpesune thanks good to know. I’m an undergrad CS right know but not sure if I’ll do grad school

[@albertorocha8024]

Waaaay too close to home... can't decide on wether to laugh or to cry. Might go on doing both. Instead of 'reading' all the papers of the field I haven't got around to, spread on dozens of tabs in another chrome window.

[@Trilobita98]

You forgot the part where the download button is behind a paywall

[@superfluous5162]

Sci hub 🤫

[@ashutoshsethi6150]

​@@superfluous5162 also nexus trlegram

[@briciolaa]

@@superfluous5162 scihub stopped uploading papers past 2021 though. if ya need any more recent stuff you're cooked

[@copter2000]

​@@superfluous5162Finished my undergrad because of Sci-Hub. 🎉

[@makssachs8914]

🌊⛴️⚓️🏴‍☠️

[@reezuleanu1676]

THERE'S ALCOHOL AT THESE CONFERENCES AND NOBODY TOLD ME?!

[@PhDVlog777]

I’ve seen the last five years and next three years of my life summarized in three and a half minutes.

[@TheConfuzzledCat]

The amount of self-explanatory, obvious shit I read in education papers these days annoys the hell out of me. I don't want to read a 17 page paper just to be told what we already know

[@F150PullsBayliner]

yep, I love being given a fucking chapter to read in one course then a quiz by a student “presenter” for the week and just not giving a shit because it’s boring

[@nitaistrange112]

facts i dont read, i just attend lectures..

[@xderen_xd]

"ah free labour" -me teacher of my study group taking advantage of grad students to "co-write" his papers aka put the whole group to give him Ideas and to write almost the whole thing just the exact amount where he can say his crazy stuff about quantics in social science xd God may bless you all

[@gaboqv]

That's wrong in so many levels

[@enricmm85]

Results: The weight of the random rock that was previously measured to be 0.15678kg was now measured to be 0.15677kg.

[@name-ie9qo]

'Instructions do not exist here' That's gonna be an ouch from me dawg

[@rosiethedoc1083]

I am surprised at how accurate you made this vid! Was hillarious. Keep up the good work!

[@banzaipiegaming]

Dang I just relived a few years of my life in 3.35 mins ;_;

[@soumyaranjanjhankar6552]

I can relate 😂 when your PhD is on Biophysics + Nuclear Physics suitable mixture

[@firstNamelastName-ho6lv]

Make cancer machines. Not machines that cure cancer, but radiation bombs and sell them to the government

[@joe-ke7pu]

How do you like it?

[@soumyaranjanjhankar6552]

My PhD is not in the above-described field, but I had some small projects previously in it. The above topic needs a lot of computational knowledge. Mine is on experimental quantum information science and technology. This topic is so attractive and sexy, dude. Just read quantum physics, and you will forget the world. #InterestingAF

[@brainmaxxing1]

Knowing that the grad student might one day leave its hole and get the diploma... it fills you with determination

[@emperor8716]

as an undergrad i do not relate. but funny nonetheless.

[@765infinity]

Well except the last comment, the reason people don't really fail their thesis defense is because most advisors worth their snuff don't let you go to your thesis defense until you're at a passing level. They gatekeep you from failing essentially. Post qualifying exam it's essentially a race between can you get to the defense level before your funding run out. There is no fail post qualifying exam unless you just have a bad advisor. You either pass or run out of money and/or motivation to finish.

[@georgesghafary5058]

Been subbed since 2021, happy to see you getting close to the 100k threshold. Loving the content and especially the runescape stuff. Keep it going!

[@Juzzyjuzzy]

I swear. I relate so much. There’s so much to do here at UMBC - and this is just the beginning. Maintaining that high GPA is difficult

[@iamtherealankitroy]

This channel is way too underrated! Good luck for the 100K subs, hoping you reach a million soon! 😄

[@szilardfineascovasa6144]

Be still my heart, a ***novel*** video from one of my favourite channels!

[@momchi98]

The worst part of science and the main reason I didn't continue into becoming a scientist is the way I have to write. I like to use the simplest, most easily understandable words and phrasings, not the jargony self-indulgent importance faking language almost all papers use. I will forever love theoretical physics, but I don't want to touch the job position anymore.

[@petarpejic1468]

Is the world in a superposition from the point of view of a particle in a super position?

[@momchi98]

@@petarpejic1468 We don't know. Honestly eventhough quantum mechanics (the mathematical formulation, not the initial evidence for it) is almost a century old it's still widely not understood. We don't know what is happening during a superposition, but we can make an abstract vector inside a Hilbert space. For utter extreme simplicity I will give an example. Think of a 2D Euclidean space and a vector on it that describes its state, but instead of position basis vectors x and y you have spins, so if a vector lies directly on the basis vector for spin up then once you operate with the spin operator the eigenvalue (the value of the spin) will be up 100% of the time. But now imagine our state vector is diagonal right between the spin up/down basis vectors. Then once you operate with the spin operator you will get a 50/50 chance of getting either spin up or spin down. That is superposition and measuring it or collapsing the wavefunction is in effect like an immediate random projection of the vector on one of the two basis vectors with a calculable probability given the state before measurement. So the math is intuitive, but the interpretation for what is actually happening is not, that is why there are so many interpretations of it. Just like how for example a shop near you has an coordinate address on Earth (latitude and longitude) but you don't say they are in a superposition between being at the equator or prime meridian, they are neither, but can be represented as a combination of both. But we haven't evolved to perceive or understand this inbetween for quantum particles. My main point regarding your question being that I can only say we don't know, but my guess would be that no, they don't as they are still in a single quantum state that simply makes no sense to us, but can be written as a combination of several (or sometimes infinite) sensible to us states with well defined momenta or position or energy, etc. But just like you aren't simultaneously at the equator and prime meridian, you are in a combination of the coordinates but still in a single place so quantum particles aren't in two places at the same time, rather in their own single state we can't intuitively comprehend.

[@petarpejic1468]

@@momchi98 Can we assume that the wave function is the future itself of some "entity"/particle, i thought like in relativity everything has its proper time so can the wave function be like a "proper future"? Like if we try to look at it from a Bohmian like perspective. In a sense we can only look at that which has already happend and we cant make the quantum measurement because nothing yet happened? Id just push back on you a little, if we assume that the world would be in a superposition from a perspective of a particle than the collapse would be just an entanglement of the two wave functions. Its just that we percieave it as a "collapse" form our point of view since we are embedded in our own future/wave function we can't know it form our perspective inside of it. What do you think of this, are these sensible assumptions?

[@momchi98]

@@petarpejic1468 I'm not sure if you've ever read any quantum mechanics, I guess not, but the wavefunction is technically able to be predicted using the time-translation operation, which if you understand Schrodinger's equation you will know is just the exponent of the Hamiltonian. The problem is calculating the wave function to operate with the Hamiltonian on to calculate the future of it precisely. Plus after a measurement any wavefunction immediately goes from a Dirac delta to a wave getting more spread out in position space (actual reality we experience) so it becomes a superposition again and has a probabilistic and uncertain manner of how they will collapse. So we can't perfectly predict the future even if we had all the information necessary, so far this is the most verified theory. We can't know everything perfectly precisely like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

[@typhlosionisbest]

​@@momchi98 This thread feels like a joke that I'm just shy of understanding, but still enjoy.

[@animeshsah5843]

Opened this video on one of those 20 arxiv tabs 😓

[@spaceman_ashish]

Bro how is Billy already in the graduate school?! 🤯

[@avg_user-dd2yb]

Coz he is billy

[@1JAMINben]

It's cool. I'm about to submit my last paper (rehashing Hegel) and I'm going to get my Ph.L. I can say and mean it: "SOOO TRUE!!!"

[@MA-es2nd]

0:40 I'm impressed at that Grasshopper3D reference 😊

[@zb9458]

Got the reading papers part gave me vietnam flashbacks, this really is spot on

[@kca698]

Billy, can you write us python code that takes in 4 points of 3-D coordinates and returns the minimum distance points and minimum distance line between the two lines defined by the 4 points. Analytic & exact, not numeric & approx

[@josueramirez7247]

Might be a silly question, but what happens when all four points are co-linear?

[@kca698]

@@josueramirez7247 assume the data is vetted and well-behaved (verified in pre-processing) with the following properties: the 4 points are non-coincident, and the rays/segments not parallel

[@solarisone1082]

@@josueramirez7247: Asking the REAL questions.

[@sean6793]

@@kca698 Boston Dynamics wants to know your location

[@yashwardhansable5187]

​@Transistor Jump chatgpt goes brrr...

[@hogrider8525]

Literally described my thesis paper.

[@yggdarsilyae6807]

The guy who asks code for Opening The Data is so fucking accurate. Do you realize I had to copy code on a WORD DOCUMENT A WORD DOCUMENT the guy couldn't double clic an html file FOR FUCK'S SAKE

[@therealjordiano]

Glad I got out of this in time, that was a close one, not to rub it in but I think we've gotta tell people about this lol

[@F150PullsBayliner]

lol love when my professor just gives us crosswords once a week to do then has a massive long semester group project and… I’m the only one working on it! yay! Grad schoollll waste of time schoolllll

[@Tobyodd]

There's a reason more than 40% of masters degree have negative roi LOL

[@grality]

What's the music used ? 0:48 please 🤲

[@Noah-di3iu]

Oh my god this is tragically relatable

[@jaluko290791]

That triggered some PTSD in me 🤣😭

[@Capitan_Chaos]

I’m surprised billy didn’t need help this time coding stuffs

[@saisagarsingh3340]

this so fucking accurate 😂

[@happysinghrocks]

Haha, the last part.was so true. I hope they don't fail me 😅

[@madarexxx]

Holy cow! This is THE LITERALLY BEST DESCRIPTION OF POST-GRAD I'VE EVER SEEN! Thank you! I wish someone pointed all these stuff 4 years ago, and literally now I would not spend the whole days trying to cringe out 30 pages of pure bigotry to get diploma. Not even going to get PhD degree, just give me that goddamn diploma, and I'm going back to work full day, instead of partial, to get payed for my work, not all these HOLY sCiEnCe stuff at unbearable cost.

[@HackersSun]

So you _don't_ do cutting edge research? 😂

[@the_expidition427]

That typically never happens unless in a high pressure competitive science field which is rare as well in a bureaucracy

[@mvlder]

"laughing & trying to hold back salty tears of sweat & blood at the same time" Unfortunately, THIS ⬆️... IS what it has come to Can't say they weren't warned FU**K*ING everybody was warned The biggest assholes were warned the most FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA**********Q You can't wake those who pretend to sleep just to not have to even face whoever/whatever is trying to wake them..

[@w.o.jackson8432]

"30 pages of pure bigotry" What degree did you go for, gender studies or something?

[@johnkramer5886]

Thinking of grad school scares the life outta me

[@VVV-k2q8d]

As an undergrad, I was so exited to do my internship at CERN. Now, some years after I completed it, I'm glad that I had an opportunity to understand how people work there and never make a mistake of doing my PhD there💀 I saw those poor PhD students, whose work basically consists of clicking one button for four years straigth. And, of course, doing publications out of absolutely nothing. I remember the talk that my supevisor and one of the PhD students had: Student: Hey "Supervisor's name", after two months of collecting anormous amount of data all that we obtained is just useless amont of data, no conclusions bro, what shpuld we do with it? Supervisor: Idk bro, but we definitely have to make a publication that we collected more data than in a previous run! So in my opinion, doing PhD in such big experiments is basically a slavery. Your working day is not fixed. If you have to stay in the office / in the zone untill 4am you'll stay there for 4am. Not to mention mandatoty night shifts from time to time. Maybe I'm exaggerating, and it depends on a group you're working with, but I prefer to stick up with my beloved photonics for now. No particle physics, thanks, I'm done with this

[@realltalkest6736]

that is pretty accurate as someone who did gradschool

[@atanjacket]

The professor music reminds me of when Arlong comes into scene in the live action One Piece.

[@Genexyz_von_Deus]

Master's Degree in a nutshell

[@ReveredDead]

Terrestrial Geologic Specimen aka A ROCK. Big words to describe a ROCK.

[@sumdude132]

How do people be getting into grad school without pre-determined projects? I only got in because my masters research gave me the exact skill set my advisor needed for his proposal.

[@gaboqv]

isn't master also grad school? I guess this is more like a phd focused thing, but before a master sometimes you don't really know what proyect you are going to do

[@sumdude132]

@@gaboqv thats fair phd is a very weird thing and yeah I think masters is grad school too

[@Qamar-sz4nf]

So accurate even for a Chinese master student.

[@NoNTr1v1aL]

Not enough tabs open.

[@dre429]

I got asked 2 questions for my thesis defense 😂

[@aldiansyahwahfi]

ah, i see now. that's not just my situation, then

[@Nabla_Squared]

Damn, the life of a scientific theorycal researcher resumed into 3 minutes, awesome

[@JesseNerio]

LOL this was hilarious and so true 🎉 gz on a great video!

[@Neomadra]

OMG this is a parody of exactly my own grad school experience

[@linkola812]

So true. I am so boring right now for my graduate school life.

[@the_expidition427]

Make your college years memorable the right reasons instead of the wrong ones. Don't waste your attention or time on one of these degrees find learning outside the confines of higher ed.

[@thelastbathbomb023]

I'm going to my first conference this year and I'm wondering... Do I just not take it too seriously and just present? Like, do they really just come to mingle and drink?

[@kirstendenney6129]

Kind of? I’ve been to a few conferences and they are rarely as intimidating as you imagine, but I would still take it seriously. People will ask you questions about your research and it’s a good time to do some networking and make connections with people who do research similar to yours.

[@w.o.jackson8432]

Definitely prepare for tough questions from seasoned veterans in the field, but ultimately there is little consequence to how you answer. People are mostly there to mingle and drink and it doesn't take much effort to poke and prod at a young grad student who is still figuring things out, consider it as a rite of passage. A random professor in your field isn't expecting a thesis defense on the spot (you're not an expert yet), but you should at least be well versed in the things confined to your poster/presentation.

[@Autopawn]

This video is 100% accurate.

[@harisjaved1379]

As someone who finished grad school 4 years ago in applied mathematics, I don’t even my thesis…something in group theory 😅 - jk, I didn’t forget it all! It was sylow theorems and group information

[@nazariimuliak8432]

Totally true, I am not in grad school yet, but I have already a ton of publications

[@wroomwroomboy123]

Conferences and alcohol 😎🔥

[@quanten]

Congrats for the 100k, I was the 100k subscriber, so…. Gg

[@ufohoh]

PLEASE WHAT IS THE MUSIC 0:02

[@edwin1justforfun285]

Super Smash Bros Brawl

[@ufohoh]

@@edwin1justforfun285 thank youuuuu

[@andreasschuldei9033]

lol, this feels really authentic!

[@GreenDayxRock1]

Absolutely incredible. Is there a way to get a pdf of this to hang up on my wall?

[@ramon4756]

This is literally my Uni

[@kar01870]

This is so on point LMAO

[@mangaart3366]

Haha it keeps getting better and better

[@deinahrsnoidson7961]

This was relatable as hell and hilarious

[@tnowroz]

I see my future in this video bruh

[@hbfl3x50]

Wat was that beat which was like bum bum bump mmh mmh 😭

[@ozanahmetmutluay46]

Can we accept that education is a scam

[@c.cody.3886]

What is the name of the ost in the beginning?

[@JulioSantirachi]

I love these videos 😂

[@TheBaxes]

Now I don't want to go to grad school I guess

[@heesel4089]

Where do I find a professor like this!

[@efemboygg]

arxiv is so fucking good

[@phantomf41]

Anyone know where to get pete’s picture ?

[@theimmux3034]

do people really go to grad school and then be surprised when they have to study?

[@yds6268]

Have you watched the video? The problem was that Billy's advisor didn't give him any task to complete or problem to solve. That's unfortunately a common thing in my experience. My university at least requires a topic description and a short research plan before any graduate student starts.

[@christopherpetrov2355]

😂😂😂😂 quite accurate !!

[@PakShuMan]

That's realistic af. Only groaned throughout this, never laughed. To make it even more realistic, you should've poshed the "free labor" angle more. ❤

[@TheLemon420]

Livin the dream

[@Selgoku]

Que locura el Billy, como crecio el pajarito.

[@Manx123]

So, all the academics in comments in saying this is their life, did you, before you pursued academia, not ask other academics to find out what your life was like? I briefly looked into academia as a career, and I determined that it’s years of grueling work as an academic slave for low pay and a slim chance of secure employment, especially as a professor, which isn’t worth essentially turning into a career my hobby, about which I wasn’t nearly passionate enough.

[@Manx123]

@@coffee_vtuber_clips Well, such grad students should have learned about the lives of those whose professions they considered joining.

[@charlesspringer4709]

Basically Confucianism.

[@dylanogden95]

Accurate

[@alanmurra2187]

It's too good...

[@kenshin4113]

I can't wait.

[@TylerAStinson]

Thank god I’m not going to grad school

[@quentinandres5243]

Literally me.

[@Randych]

What's grad school

[@quentinandres5243]

University after bachelor including master degree, doctorate school

[@mohammedyasin2087]

@@quentinandres5243 Nah, Master's degree is also grad school

[@quentinandres5243]

@@mohammedyasin2087 yes correct

[@MrCmon113]

@@mohammedyasin2087 Most master theses in my field aren't like that. They're just taking two things and combining them.

[@Randych]

@@quentinandres5243 is this where you waste another 4-10 years just to not be bothered with getting drafted or something, and get a toilet paper that you proudly present to HR at interview so that they can urgently wipe their ass with it and say "nah das not vibin well"?