Ho: Desk entropy increases as the length of PhD candidature increase.
To support this theory, I present my evidence:
Subject 1Name: Michael
Length of candidature: 1 week.
Subject 2Name: Carola
Length of candidature: don't even ask
Length of candidature: don't even ask
Other considerations: Some scholars argue that desk entropy is not a characteristic of PhD students only, but that it manifest itself on all people working in an academic environment. To test this hypothesis I was going to take a picture of the office of a new academic such as Bruce Doran and compared it with a picture of the office of someone who has been working in academia for many years. However, I was afraid to enter John Field's office just in case I was killed by a falling forlder containing a student assignment from 1983.
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Ha ha! I totally agree. Almost 2 years in and my desk looks like a pile of garbage.
John has been working at Fenner for at least 20 years now. No wonder his room looks how it does. It was called the 'wombat hole' for awhile. Nathan and I were also going to use his room to scare kids at Christmas time. We would take them there, with scary Santa-John, and tell them that all the books/piles are lists of the 'naughty children'.
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