Spider viva

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posted on 2025-05-09, 08:56 authored by Matthew PartridgeMatthew Partridge

A three-panel cartoon of a nervous, multi-armed creature struggling to explain a graph during a PhD viva, highlighting mental over physical preparedness.

History

Creation date

2017-03-01

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Multi-armed character struggles to explain graph during a viva, despite extra limbs.

Transcript

Person 1: Can you please explain the graph on page 6 in more detail please? Spider character: Absolutely. So this slide shows— —That the graph on page 6 has a shape that looks— —Like a sine wave, which… umm hang on I’ve got a bit knotted Text: Having extra arms helps in a viva but not as much as an extra brain would