I guess I would add; Piss off your research director by missing group meetings and not being around, even though you might be burning the midnight oil at home.
Don’t assume that supervisors:
1. are all the same
2. have nothing else to do but your project
3. have a big pot of money to fund your half baked ideas
4. love reading unproofed or unspell-checked drafts
5. can’t use plagiarism checking software or cut–>paste–>Google search….
The Upturned Microscope 
Haha love the pictures that go along with the ‘tips’!
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what if I am distracted by comics on a blog? am I still a bad PhD student? Or a forewarned one? 😉
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I guess I would add; Piss off your research director by missing group meetings and not being around, even though you might be burning the midnight oil at home.
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cite wikipedia!!!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA….. it is so true! sadly…
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Don’t assume that supervisors:
1. are all the same
2. have nothing else to do but your project
3. have a big pot of money to fund your half baked ideas
4. love reading unproofed or unspell-checked drafts
5. can’t use plagiarism checking software or cut–>paste–>Google search….
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