Partly kidding

How this grad program is driving me crazy, #262:

Bunny came home with a permission slip for me to sign. The district has authorized a survey to be taken at her little elementary school. Students may voluntarily answer questions about the school's multi-purpose building at lunchtime - how fun is it there, how safe, how clean, do they get enough time to eat, are the drug pushers keeping their prices nice and low, whatever whatever, etc.

Now, here's the part I zeroed in on: the survey is being conducted by a grad student in the Education Dept. at Sac State. And the one and only thing I could focus on when I skimmed the permission slip was, damn her, whoever she is - she's thought up a great graduate project and I haven't!

Breathe ... breathe ...

Comments

[Anthony]

Then do a project about grad projects and their relationship to funding issues or some such. When in doubt, go meta. Anything "about" can have an "about the about" component to them!
Devise an extensive survey for grad students doing grad projects: what their methodology is, where they got the idea, how they intend to use their results, how many of their profs they slept...wait, no, maybe not. Or at least keep the results private until they become very sucessful and you can screw at least a few thousand a month out of them!

[Dan]

Well, Pam, you're just overlooking your own genius. You mentioned the drug pushers, in an obviously facetious way. Stop being facetious, and survey (whoever) about their drug pusher experiences (in whatever setting). This suggestion is offered in perfect ignorance of your actual area of study (that way, I can't offer an idea that might be helpful).

Even better: find out how many people are doing studies of drug pushers and do a study of them. Particularly, where do they get the best goods and how many guys names Cheech or Rocco are they friends with!