Ph Do What!?

To quote Stephan Pastis's Pearls Before Swine : How many roasts must a man wok, Downs, before he is called a nan?  If you're unaware it's a pun playing off the question "How many roads must a man walk down before he is called a man?" which Bob Dylan used in his song "Blowing in the Wind" as a philosophical statement.  Yes dear reader, I I did just explain the joke, you're just going to have to deal with it.   So, what's all this rambling mean about grad school?  Well, not much, other than that the pun fits well into the analogy I want to make.  Consider a pot roast.  They make fantastic meals, but they also take a fair amount of time to cook.  Generally, you follow the rule of about an hours cook time per pound.  So a 4lb roast takes 4 hours in the crock pot.  There is no speeding it up.  It takes as long as it takes.  And that idea does have a lot to do with grad school.   Anyone who's ever taken a che...