Top 10 Things You Don't Want to Hear From Your RQE Committee

["Michael McGeachie" <mmcgeach@>]

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Top 10 Things You Don't Want to Hear From Your RQE Committee


10. Can we reschedule this for two weeks from now?  Great.  Please book
one of the Stata Center conference rooms.

9. You've passed on condition you accept exile to the Central African
Republic.

8. It's interesting that you don't mention the work of Myself and
So'n'so.  Didn't you realize we've defined the field?

7. Wait... I thought this was the Gates talk?  You're not Bill Gates,
are you?

6. We've written the decision of this committee on a 3x5 card and hidden
it somewhere in this building.  We'll give you a clue: it's in an orange
crate.

5. "Zag Rak Zeebin!"  What?  Don't you speak Klingon?  You need to learn
that by next month and do this again, in Klingon.

4. While causal relationship between representational consistency and
computational efficacy is due to Saussure, your foundational treatment
skirts such epistemological relationships.  To what end?

3. This is very interesting work...  for 1985.

2. Sorry I'm late, my spam filter deleted your reminders.  It deleted
your written exam material as well.  Are you writing a paper on email
viruses?

And the number one thing you don't want to hear from your RQE committee
is...

1. That's all very nice, but I don't understand what it has to do with
Computer Science.

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