a grad school fairytale

dear friends,

i found this on the interweb...

Scene: It's a fine beautiful day in the forest and a rabbitis sitting outside his burrow, typing away on his laptop.Along comes a fox, out for a walk.
Fox: "What are you working on?"
Rabbit: "My Thesis paperto graduate from University."
Fox: "Hmmmmm. What is itabout?"
Rabbit: "Oh, I'm writing about how rabbits eatfoxes." (There is an incredulous pause)
Fox: "That's ridiculous! Any fool knows thatrabbits don't eat foxes!"
Rabbit: "Come with me and I'll showyou!"
They both disappear into the rabbit's burrow. After a fewminutes, gnawing on a fox bone, the rabbit returns to his laptop and resumes typing. Soon a wolf comes along and stops towatch the hard working rabbit. (Tippy-tap, tippy-tap,tippy-tippy-tap).
Wolf: "What's that you are writing?"
Rabbit: "I'm doinga thesis on how rabbits eats wolves." (loud guffaws).
Wolf: "You don't expect to get such garbage published, do you?"
Rabbit: "No problem. Do you want to see why?" The rabbit and the wolf go into the burrow, and again therabbit returns by himself. This time he is patting hisstomach. He goes back to his typing. (Tippy-tap, tippy-tap,tippy-tippy-tap). Finally a bear comes along and asks,
Bear: "What are youdoing?"
Rabbit: "I'm doing a thesis on how rabbits eatsbears."
Bear: "Well that's absurd!"
Rabbit: "Come into myhome and I'll show you."
SCENE: Inside the rabbit's burrow. In one corner, there is apile of fox bones. In another corner is a pile of wolf bones.On the other side of the room a huge lion is belching andpicking his teeth.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY: ----------------------- It doesn'tmatter what you choose for a thesis topic. It doesn't matterwhat you use for your data. It doesn't even matter if yourtopic makes sense. What matters is who you have for a thesis advisor.

i am going to eat bears,
cam