Que onda!!

Diran q pasa con el titulo de este post!!! Pero en mi correo electronico tenia guardado un mensaje q me enviaron hace poco mas de un año, donde se ilustra lo que es la magica y misteriosa aventura del doctorado, en terminos del Señor de los Anillos....jajajja mi mero mole. Aqui se los pongo con ligeras interrupciones en español, de parte mia, para q se diviertan durante estos 5 minutos q estan baboseando en la red, en lugar de estar TRABAJANDOOOO...(como ven soy vidente, jajajjaa). By the way, sorry q esta en ingles!

(Con especial dedicacion a mis colegas en la misma situacion...buaaaaaaaaa!!)

Holly Lord Of the Ph.D.!

The story starts with Frodo: a young hobbit, quite bright, a bit dissatisfied with what he's learnt so far and with his mates back home who just seem to want to get jobs and settle down and drink beer. He's also very much in awe of his tutor and mentor, the very seniorprofessor Gandalf, so when Gandalf suggests he take on a short project for him (carrying the Ring to Rivendell), he agrees. Frodo very quickly encounters the shadowy forces of fear and despair which willhaunt the rest of his journey and leave permanent scars on his psyche,but he also makes some useful friends. In particular, he spends anevening down at the pub with Aragorn, who has been wandering the world for many years as Gandalf's postdoc and becomes his adviser when Gandalf isn't around. After Frodo has completed his first project,

-Acaso lo he concretado?-...se pregunta Frodo.

Gandalf (along with headof department Elrond) proposes that the work should be extended. He assembles a large research group, including visiting students Gimliand Legolas, the foreign postdoc Boromir,and several of Frodo's ownfriends from his undergraduate days.

A quien le suena esto familiar???

Frodo agrees to tackle this larger project, though he has mixed feelings about it. ("'I will take the Ring', he said, 'although I do not know why.'")Very rapidly, things go wrong. First, Gandalf disappears and has nomore interaction with Frodo until everything is over.

Jajajajjaa... Rui lo primero es para ti! jajjajaa.

(Frodo assumes his supervisor is dead: in fact, he's simply found a more interesting topic and is working on that instead.) At his first international conference in Lorien, Frodo is cross-examined terrifyingly by Galadriel, and betrayed by Boromir, who is anxious to get the credit for the work himself. Frodo cuts himself off from the rest of histeam: from now on, he will only discuss his work with Sam, an old friend who doesn't really understand what it's all about, but in anycase is prepared to give Frodo credit for being rather cleverer than he is.

Then he sets out towards Mordor.The last and darkest period of Frodo's journey clearly represents thewriting-up stage, as he struggles towards Mount Doom (submission),finding his burden growing heavier and heavier yet more and more apart of himself; more and more terrified of failure;

mmm esto se supone que es en el tercer ano o q...me suena conocido.

plagued by the figure of Gollum, the student who carried the Ring before him but never wrote up and still hangs around as a burnt-out, jealous shadow; talking less and less even to Sam. When he submits the Ring to the fire, it is in desperate confusion rather than with confidence, andfor a while the world seems empty.Eventually it is over: the Ring is gone, everyone congratulates him,and for a few days he can convince himself that his troubles are over.

REAAAALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYY???

But there is one more obstacle to overcome: months later, back in the Shire, he must confront the external examiner Saruman, an old enemy of Gandalf, who seeks to humiliate and destroy his rival's protege. With the help of his friends and colleagues, Frodo passes through this ordeal, but discovers at the end that victory has no value left for him. While his friends return to settling down and finding jobs and starting families, Frodo remains in limbo;

OPPPSSSSSS

finally, along with Gandalf, Elrond and many others, he joins the brain drain across the Western ocean to the new land beyond.

JAJAJAJJAJAAAAA Gringoland here I come. Pequeno problema....quieren construir un muro!!!

Bueno chiquillos espero q les haya gustado. En lo personal yo sigo perdida en las minas de Moria y mi supervisor es mas Elrond que Gandalf, pero creo q el doctorado es algo mas o menos asi. Nota a todos: He estado desaparecida pero pronto volvere!!! Denme otro fin de semana....

Un beso a todos
Linda.