| Academia (not real world) |
Industry (real world) |
|---|
| Do intellectually challenging tasks |
Do brain-dead/mundane/boring tasks but get lots of money |
| Motivation by love for science |
Motivation by more money |
| Socrates and Aristotle relationship |
Master and Slave relationship |
| Research and development. |
Research on how your company can make more money |
| People who get sick and tired of watching Greek letters |
People who think they are actually pretty rad
(added by dpetrou) |
| Create the latest and coolest things |
Steal ideas from poor grad students and get lots of money |
| Read, write, evaluate, and publish technical papers |
Read Dilbert on the web during lunch time and get paid
|
| Write new code from scratch for minimum wage |
Add code on top of horribly written 20 year legacy code,
create new bugs,
let the new hires debug your bug, and then leave
for another job that pays more stock/option/money |
| Toil day and night reading technical publications |
"Productive time" means cleaning up meaningless
corporate email, and get paid. |
| Beg your professor so that you can graduate in less than 8 years |
Kiss up to your boss,
pretend that you are very smart so that you can get
more raise and more bonus
|
| The most important thing in life:
Knowledge, learning, R&D, motivation by love for science |
The most important thing in life:
bonus, raise, and an office with a window |
| "I hope I get more RAship, TAship, NSF grant, Perkins loan,
and any other assistantship this semester." |
"I hope I get more raise and bonus this quarter" |
| Safe haven for those that do not want to go to the real world |
Safe haven for those not smart enough to make it into
academia |
| Schmooze with fellow IEEE fellows and hope others will
accept your new paradigm. |
Schmooze with boss, backstab co-workers, talk politics,
and get paid |
| Spent $22 on a fancy Italian dinner... means no eating out
for the next 2 weeks.
by Ron Azuma |
Spent $22 on a lousy Italian dinner (same restaurant), but
will go to a nicer one tomorrow. |
| Impress a good looking undergrad girls with your
big brain |
Impress many good looking models with Mercedes and money
(added by Nick Kralevich)
|
| Share what you know. Learn what you don't. |
Share nothing. Learn to crush competition and make money
|
| Plan that when you finally graduate, in only 8 years,
you can finally pay off all the educational loan and
maybe even afford that really nice used Honda
Civic that you've always dreamed of having |
Plan that in less than 3 years, with your IPOed options,
you can put down a good amount of
down-payment in that expensive house in Silicon Valley, or
buy, in cash, that BMW 740i you've always wanted. |
| The biggest accomplishments in academia:
contribution to the academic community,
contribution to mankind.
|
The biggest accomplishments in industry:
house, upgrades for the house, upgrades for the upgrades...
The only non-materialistic accomplishment you will
ever have is your Netscape bookmark.
|
| Reward: satisfaction that you've done something great for
the academic community, recognition, prestige
|
Reward: Lots and lots of ESPP stocks, options, and cash
|
| Share a common ground with peers, bonded by
the love for knowledge and discovery |
Share absolute no common ground with co-workers, but bonded by
greed |
| Graduate students-- slave to the advisor, masters at
their domain, oblivious to the world-wide concerns. |
bourgeois-
people who seem to think about nothing but their
possessions and other comforts and about conforming with
other people who share those concerns. |
| Brain steroid (read papers, write papers, take exams, teach,
research, etc) |
Body steroid (eat well, sleep well, paid well).
Side effect: brain death
(intelligence not required in the industry) |
Seminars and classes to attend:
- Overview of Models of Computation
- Control Logic using Hierarchical FSM
- Adaptive Computing System Design and Implementation using the ACS Domain
|
Seminars and classes to attend:
- Learn your extremely specific, esoteric technical skill
that will not be used anywhere except your company,
IN 21 DAYS.
|
| Professors, grad students
|
Lemmings, drones, automaton, robots, munchkins.
|
| Hang around with smart, influential people |
Buy and control smart, influential people |
| Want to read books (but no money) |
Want to read books (but no time) |
