In Dire Straits

I've just seem this today, via PhD Comics (click on it for the full version)



And a few seconds later, I came through that (check the full version),

Papers for Nothing
...
I shoulda learned that D-brane theory,
I shoulda learned 'bout BPS,
Look at them conferences, all beggin' just to get him,
Man, we could be in Trieste,
And he's out there, what's that? Another theorem?
He says he found a slick duality?
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it,
Papers for nothing, and your trips for free.
...

by A Strange Universe, I definitely have to say that the grad school is working.