Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
-Samuel Beckett
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Oy vey, it is friday again.
On this season of passing over, we intrepidly approach the mighty iPod One, and ask humbly:
what about funding, oh Mighty Omnipotent iPod?
Whoosh goes the randomizer.
Whooooooosh.
In the past week, I've had to have some uncomfortable conversations with students. In each case, the student is failing my class. (And we're not talking barely failing....we're talking obviously failing.) In each case, the student had no idea that s/he is failing my class.
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The other day, perennial political tool Rush Limbaugh was on CNBC defending his now infamous "I want Obama to fail" comment. His argument went something like this (paraphrasing):
Daily life of a scientist in a nutshell...
Do you really want to 'fail better' in science? After years of grad school and postdocing, we become quite good at failing, such that a run-of-the-mill failure usually gets the job done. To fail better than usual can require a years of effort!
Speaking of failure: scratch the 'a' in that final sentence!
How ironic. (Maybe this is an example of postdoc-memory-induced failure.)
Postdocs? I thought this was about the midterm elections.
I guess after the Iraq war and Katrina, the elections were a better failure for the GOP. (According to Google "failure" is the best title for the GOP's leader.)