10/31/08 PHD comic: 'The lab/office Whiteboard'

[Greg Bernhardt]

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd103108s.gif

[Moonbear]

:rofl: Yep, that's exactly what the whiteboards in the grad student offices look like! I actually love to walk in and read them once in a while, just to see what they are picking on each other about most recently.

[BobG]

The background is too white. Usually, someone has to try some exotic cleaner on the whiteboard that makes it impossible to erase anything completely.

I love it when that happens to somebody else. In a math class, one of the previous instructors had written all of their equations in red marker and his/her attempt to erase them after class just resulted in a red smear with the equations faintly, and barely visible.

When I came in for my class, I could only think, "It happens every time. Somebody goes on a math frenzy and you never get the blood out."

[Moonbear]

When I came in for my class, I could only think, "It happens every time. Somebody goes on a math frenzy and you never get the blood out."

:rofl: Yes, this is an issue in some of our classrooms too. But the custodian who redistributes my candy to random other offices also makes sure that I have plenty of board cleaner anytime I need it, so at least when it's exam day, I can be sure to get the writing off the boards.

[lisab]

The whiteboard in my office is a graffitti magnet!

This is how it looks this morning, after I cleaned it a bit last week...


http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/1065/whiteboardoo6.jpg


The red, downward arrow is the stock market (in case that wasn't obvious).

[Topher925]

I only have a black board in my office/lab and there's a shelf in front of it. :frown:

EDIT: I missed the stock market thing. Thats AWESOME!

[Moonbear]

The red, downward arrow is the stock market (in case that wasn't obvious).

:rofl: That's hilarious! Though, someone in your office must have rather high expectations if they think they're going to bottom out with a double-wide trailer...fancy rich folk! :biggrin: