Depressing Day...

Sigh, it was a depressing day for me and hubby yesterday.

Hubby's conference paper did not get a good review, and he was rather upset about it. He had put in quite a bit of effort into it, and I could attest to it. But he was rather unlucky, as his reviewers were not really into his field of work, and thus could not really understand the impact of his work fully. And in this HARSH academic life, as what my hubby said, "it is publish or perish loh".

Sometimes I wonder...frankly, what's all the hype about getting your work published?? How many people actually read them? And many professors in universities are all stressed up about being able to publish as many papers as they can, in order to secure their place in the academic world. So, there are many stories in which professors treat their students as "publishing slaves"; students helping profs to do research, and the profs put their names on the papers, which they contribute little! Some profs even intentionally hold students back, and not allowing them to graduate, so that they can "squeeze" more out from them!

Luckily, and hopefully this is not going to happen to us...my hubby has a dynamic supervisor..and i hope all goes well for him!

Hubby, dun be depressed ok!