White and nerdy...

After delighting in the news about the iPhone, a product I have only been waiting for since BEFORE I WAS BORN*, fear set in. Fear that I can't possibly contain my excitement about such a product. Fear that I'm going to blab nonstop to everyone I know about how fabulous it is. And fear that they would obviously (correctly) conclude that I am a HUGE NERD as a result.

Then, while searching for a keyword related to my research, I found this blog post. Thank god I'm not the world's biggest nerd. I obviously get how fantastic it is to finish one's thesis, and I concede that the act of doing so probably clouds judgment and induces the kind of hyperbole contained in that post. But, "best things since sliced bread"? Come on - research is fun, but not THAT fun. It must have been written by a master's student - no one can spend 5 years on thesis research for a PhD and still feel that excited.


*Someday I'll map an "affinity for Apple products" gene, ok? And...here's proof of my Apple-from-an-early-age street cred. My dad scanned the photo in when he gave me my first laptop, which unfortunately was not an Apple.