The Joys of Postgraduate Research

Abstract

The years had gone by and as pen recorders had been edged out by more sophisticated means of measurement, MacLeod was hopeful that, with the passage of time, his research career might meet with a greater chance of success. MacLeod’s period in postgraduate research followed on from his house jobs, senior house jobs and registrar training – time well spent in the company of loose women, time well spent in bars and snooker halls with inappropriate companions. MacLeod had been blessed by this traditional postgraduate education and had been fortunate in his training to amass volumes of information on the ways of all flesh. And so, armed with his years as a junior and senior junior doctor, MacLeod felt that it was time to spill his seed on the soil of research and hope that he remained fertile despite any past indiscretions.