Quote of the Day

In an NPR article entitled “Three Books for Surviving Graduate School”, Adam Ruben suggests that grad students read Alfred Lansing’s “Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic” for inspiration. This is what Ruben had to say about the book:

Much like grad school, Endurance is a tale of optimists embarking blithely on a mission of discovery for discovery’s sake, then becoming hopelessly entrenched in a situation that overwhelms them. The story also offers encouragement: No matter how boring you find your department’s next seminar, at least you aren’t clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea while being attacked by a sea leopard.

Truer words were never spoken.