tentative thesis titles

[aliki]

I'm always envious that my sister, also a Ph.D. student in the biological sciences, makes $10,000 more a year than I do. It never seemed fair, even accounting for the cost of living being higher in NYC.

Till today. When I realized that her tentative dissertation thesis title sounds WAY cooler to any grant institution handing out money than mine does.

My title is: Ecological role of the Mullica River-Great Bay Estuary in the life history of striped bass, Morone saxatilis.

Her title is: Molecular Strategy of HCMV US2-mediated MHC class I Destruction.


You see? I sound like some Jacques Cousteau sipping wine and enjoying the marine environment, while she's off saving the world by curing cancer or something.

Comments

[aliki.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. When I worked at Mt Siani, my project was an electron microscopy study of the GnRH neuron and how neurotransmitters were released. Very well funded.

[aparecida.livejournal.com]

Electron microscopy, acronyms, and biochemistry! It's like a trifecta of Words That Make Grant Institutions Get Boners!