After spending nearly a year slavin…err... working on my graduation project, I learnt some important lessons and facts. And today I’m going to share this with you. So, I hereby present - Huzaifa’s Ten Things You Would Not Have Learnt If You Didn’t Attend Graduate School.

1) The longer the title of a scientific paper, the lesser the relevance it will have to its actual content.

2) The more time you spend researching papers online, the higher is the probability you will end up surfing videos on YouTube.

3) The weather improves dramatically as the deadlines approach.

4) Your presentation should be ten minutes long. That way, the audience has five minutes to ask questions. And the first fifteen minutes can be spent cursing while trying to get the projector to work with the laptop.

5) Deadlines are great. Sometimes I like to smile and wave at them as they pass me by.

6) Engineering handbooks are extremely useful…as doorstops.

7) When your supervisor asks you to make a concise summary of your results, ‘42’ is not the right answer.

8) Also, “The voice in my head” is not an acceptable cross-reference.

9) You are also not allowed to sell your project supervisor on Ebay. Don’t try, because you won’t get a good price.

10) And finally…Murphy’s Law is probably the only undisputed law on the planet.