...I just sent a mail to my advisor with a smiley in it! Can you believe it? What's wrong with me? I am out of my senses, I guess. Can I somehow retrieve my mail? No? Please...
Guess can't do anything about it now. Let me go and catch some sleep now. I am never ever using any smiley again. Never.
be postive...nothing wrong with smiley face...here is a logical argument....You love ur work and u r happy and smiling...even in tough times.........:)
ReplyDeleteBeing happy can actually send a wrong message to the advisor. It means I don't have enough work to do. Haven't you learn anything from PhD comics? :)
ReplyDeleteWe both are looking from different angle.....:) I meant, one should always do what he ejoys doing...I know its easier said than done...You are doing PHD...means u love what u do, I feel, while u r doing PHD...u and ur advisor... r trying to experiment and come up with something new or might be that u r proving something wrong....at this level....u should not feel like school kid i guess....:) being happy means u have the work and u enjoy doing that!Three of my good friends are doing PHD...;) and they enjoy doing this...I call them bunch of crazy ppl doing experiement till 3 in the morning..they love what they do....:)
ReplyDeleteHey thats not about being kids. Its about being a bit formal with your advisor because no matter how informal is your relationship with your advisor, you can't be buddies. Or may be thats how I look at it. So when I write a mail to him, no matter how informal that is, I don't address him like I would do a close friend. And thats where the smiley comes in. And moreover, smileys are our generation thing..its ok to send it to people in our generation, our friends. May be again, I am prejudiced but thats how I think. so as far as I am concerned..no smileys to the advisor.
ReplyDeleteEnjoying the work is a completely different matter. And being happy at work has nothing to do with being formal at work. Again that might be a change from field to field. I know people in some IT companies don't dress formally at office..may the environment is completely informal there but in our field we still stick to the formal dress codes (in the industry, of course, not in the university) and hence to a formal conduct at office. I guess thats what makes me more cautious and formal at office, even though I am still a grad student...
May be its just a difference of opinion..and with those, there are times when you have to agree to disagree...don't you think?