Nice chat

I had a nice chat with a faculty member from another group in my department today. It was unexpected and very cool. I just wanted to share this since usually I crab about how much grad school and my department suck. Sometimes you remember there are good people too. We connected on the "is everyone here on crazy pills?" feelings experienced by a nontraditional student who is struggling with the decision to keep going (or not) for a brass ring which she strongly suspects is less a ring and more a ringer. Conversations with people like this help me feel less totally misanthropic.

It was just in time too. I was feeling pretty hateful about my department today.