Dance your PhD

[nineveh_uk]

Long years ago, when I was doing with MPhil, a couple of students used to play frisbee together in the garden regularly after lunch. Inevitably, the human brain being what it is, this lead to me and a couple of friends imagining submitting a PhD through the medium of frisbee or interpretative dance.

You can imagine therefore how it has made my week to discover that there is in fact a competition to Dance your PhD.

The winner of the 2012 competition:

Comments

[antisoppist]

I was going to ask how boring does your PhD have to be for you to devote that much time to creating a video but it is probably a distraction that every PhD needs at some point.

The music is cheery and makes me type faster - I have been failing to complete an incredibly boring list of office premises to rent all day. Cannot decide whether "sauna on top floor" is going to work equally well as a selling point to an international audience.

[nineveh_uk]

Perhaps it provides valuable focus in forcing people to think what their PhD is trying to convey rather than jamming in everything they have ever read.

I was going to say that I would approve of an office with a sauna on the top floor, and then I remembered that I'd have to share it with my colleagues. I have changed my mind.

[antisoppist]

I have changed my mind.
If they were Finnish colleagues it would be fine. I almost added "for entertaining clients"* but then decided it made it sound even worse to the uninitiated in Finnish business practices. It is completely standard - so many m2 of flexible office space, parking, reception service, staff restaurant, meeting rooms, sauna.

I definitely approved of a block of flats with a sauna in the basement and a scheduled hour for the use of the occupant of my flat every Friday night.

*Or, if you listen to the women in Finnish businesses, the place where the men make all the important decisions.