The more astute followers of the blog would notice the change suffered aesthetically given time. Was pending write a post explaining the change, and finally decided to wait until today's date as it fulfills exactly two years since he defended his doctoral thesis server. And they will have to see the cartoons from the bottom of the blog with my dissertation? Then you will have to keep reading to find out. And if you are not interested, then you are going to another blog that is a can ... not! Do not go, it was hard to gather a group of regular readers!
Figure 1. central image of the cover tesil. The active site of three phosphatases different line and a phospho-tyrosine dephosphorylate point (for how phospho-tyrosine was there, see back in Figure 2).
All those engaged in the issue of doctors know about how important it is usually this time. Of course, as we all have opinions and ass, the pleasure of "reading" the theory also depends on each and every one, but in general is widespread it is a time of celebration and in many cases is compared with a bodorrio (as we discussed on this occasion ). It is also quite true that for the more vocational, maudlin or simpletons, entire period of the thesis is equivalent to something like the military do. This last remark made me Alfie partner, outside (but close) to the world of research, when I heard about my fellow thesis almost like my brothers. It is quite true, at least in my case, it was a time of great, to meet interesting people, make good friends, do challenging work and travel and see some of the world. Therefore, the illusion of top it "creating" something special seemed inevitable.
For those unfamiliar with the scientific world should know that far from the ease and humor with which we tackle the issues this blog scientific and playful, the world of literature is very serious, cold and calculating (come on, have to be). It was a challenge for me, much given to winding and volatile imagination, simply write a set of facts and observations from the objectivity and reliability. But fortunately, there was hope.
It also allows, within this seriousness, a certain flexibility in preparing the merely "aesthetic" of the thesis. It is therefore possible that apart from the cold and concise writing results, season with a billet inspirational phrase (for example), or with a cover artistically relevant or even to denote something of the personality of the author. This is where I completely lost the papers, and I determined at all costs to do a thesis work was recognized as well as mine and nobody else. Thanks to have a very understanding boss and also a friend of artistic expression, found a way to leave my mark on the covers ( Figures 1 and 2) and in each of the chapters ( figure 3). This not only wanted to pay tribute to the scientific process of research, but my greatest passion, the profession that a boy always wanted to develop and eventually discarded to devote to a career something more serious (oh, how naive era). Of course I'm talking about comics, and in fact what happened was that I realized that besides a lot to like comics, you had to draw that you shit. But hey we do not stray: I show below a collage I made by mixing the illustrations accompanying each chapter, with its corresponding sentence. The game that you can make is to associate each picture / sentence with the corresponding section of the thesis (in the collage not respecting the original order). To see who is right all (the solution by clicking on the button).
Figure 2. Back tesil. An ancestor of Batablanca and history of other inhabitants of this our blog jumps of protein-protein until a structural alignment in which to deposit its cargo, the phospho-tyrosine.
Figure 3. collection of illustrations and quotes that accompany each chapter of the thesis. One of them did not correspond to any chapter, but closed the volume.
As he had long wanted to customize your blog, I felt like a quick fix and involving little work using these cartoons and hechos.Creo that fit well, but good is your opportunity to say in the matter.
If that bit you appeared, attached to the copy of the thesis presented a CD with an interactive menu from which you could access content "official" (pdf version, copies of articles, links to web pages and relevant databases ...) and a section of "extra content" which included a couple of particular texts (the real history of this blog and the adventures of Batablanca ) , a comic strip parodying the final moments of thesis writing, and any other similar surprise.
Before you consider that I am crazy and daring transgressor, know that no further than one of my friends who read about months earlier, also customized his thesis, included photos of their favorite mountains, and to round off a photo of himself reading a Nature Reviews on Cancer hung in the middle of a road. Yes, what he was climbing, not comics, how did you guess?
should be noted that there is another method of preparation of thesis, titled "for articles", in this case, if enough has published articles in the doctoral period, some universities allow the thesis to be published in summary, attaching these items. That is less cumbersome, but also less personal. In the case of my university this option was not possible, and although some results were already published (in fact, to date we are still awaiting acceptance Finally an article that lists the latest results tesiles), Curran had the billet.
Finally, I dedicate this post to all who are in terrible point of discouragement which usually takes place at different times between the beginning of writing and defense of the thesis. There is often no time or inclination to waste time with such nonsense, but it's also good to know that you can create something a bit more personal without sacrificing the rigor and seriousness implicit in the work. Let everyone decide their way to close this quarter, but please do not closeted in a repetitive and exhaustive formulas formal rules. That science in itself it is quite tedious in many cases.
And a special dedication to the copepod friend, who is in the final stage and is already a little to the very. Told him when we saw this Christmas as the number of cartoons and nonsense that I included in the thesis, and was perplexed and phosphorylated equally. Was another reason I moved to turn this into a post.
UPDATE: The article you mentioned, with the latest results tesiles, just accepted today (27 February 2011), by a hair I do not fit the second anniversary celebration! Anyway, better late than ever.
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