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GAH.
Because my first PhD committee meeting was this morning (ultimately fine but frustrating as hell along the way), and because the damn state is on fire and my smoke-hating, asthmatic lungs have had me gasping like a stupid goldfish for two days:
I have heard the words "assemble your committee" a lot lately, and every single time I flash to the Avengers and giggle a little bit. (I am secretly 12, and easily amused.) Really, though, the movie!verse team would be the worst academic body ever. I mean, picture these people being responsible for creating a unified, clear plan of study to be completed in a reasonable period of time. Yeah.
First of all, you'd have to get Tony to an actual meeting, and keep him there long enough to discuss anything. Then you'd never know what's a legit suggestion and what's just him being a smartass, because the impossible crap that he's telling you to do might only be theoretically impossible, and therefore totally doable for a guy who reinvents physics for kicks.
Steve would be great, except for the ridiculously high expectations and Disappointed Eyes that would inevitably follow them. He punched Nazis repeatedly, and you couldn't design a decent experimental protocol?
Bruce... Well. You won't like him when he's angry, and the rest of the time he's a biophysicist.
Natasha would eyebrow you to death, and you would still never know what she was thinking. She'd also have no mercy on your schedule, because anything can be accomplished with enough ruthless efficiency. Sleep is for the weak.
Clint would spend every meeting firing rubberband missiles at other members until the very last second, when he'd casually mention the ginormous flaw in your approach that necessitates completely redoing the last six months of work. It would be said with a smirk, but at least he'd buy you a consolation beer in the aftermath.
Thor would be awesome, provided you remembered baked goods. Woe to thee who forgoes Krispy Kreme.
Let's not even get into Fury or Coulson. That way lies madness.
So, how would other fandoms fair? Would Arthur and his knights make you want to staple them to the conference table? Would nightmarish qualifying exams be Lestrade's division? Would Rodney and John manage to remember it's a committee, not a yo-yo?
Come on, distract me. The world owes me giraffe funtiems for this week, and I can't collect until tomorrow. What's the worst fannish academic committee you can come up with? (Or the best, for that matter.)
I have heard the words "assemble your committee" a lot lately, and every single time I flash to the Avengers and giggle a little bit. (I am secretly 12, and easily amused.) Really, though, the movie!verse team would be the worst academic body ever. I mean, picture these people being responsible for creating a unified, clear plan of study to be completed in a reasonable period of time. Yeah.
First of all, you'd have to get Tony to an actual meeting, and keep him there long enough to discuss anything. Then you'd never know what's a legit suggestion and what's just him being a smartass, because the impossible crap that he's telling you to do might only be theoretically impossible, and therefore totally doable for a guy who reinvents physics for kicks.
Steve would be great, except for the ridiculously high expectations and Disappointed Eyes that would inevitably follow them. He punched Nazis repeatedly, and you couldn't design a decent experimental protocol?
Bruce... Well. You won't like him when he's angry, and the rest of the time he's a biophysicist.
Natasha would eyebrow you to death, and you would still never know what she was thinking. She'd also have no mercy on your schedule, because anything can be accomplished with enough ruthless efficiency. Sleep is for the weak.
Clint would spend every meeting firing rubberband missiles at other members until the very last second, when he'd casually mention the ginormous flaw in your approach that necessitates completely redoing the last six months of work. It would be said with a smirk, but at least he'd buy you a consolation beer in the aftermath.
Thor would be awesome, provided you remembered baked goods. Woe to thee who forgoes Krispy Kreme.
Let's not even get into Fury or Coulson. That way lies madness.
So, how would other fandoms fair? Would Arthur and his knights make you want to staple them to the conference table? Would nightmarish qualifying exams be Lestrade's division? Would Rodney and John manage to remember it's a committee, not a yo-yo?
Come on, distract me. The world owes me giraffe funtiems for this week, and I can't collect until tomorrow. What's the worst fannish academic committee you can come up with? (Or the best, for that matter.)
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John would be super competent and want to be very committed to his responsibilities, but I wouldn't trust him not to fall asleep during meetings and forget his students' names
Hahaha. That's perfect! I am utterly convinced that John would be really great in lecture - clear! charismatic! - and really terrible at everything else, for all of your reasons. Also, because it would be way more fun to let Sherlock waylay him with various exciting diversions than to sit through departmental meetings while keeping the rising urge to kill from his expression. Much like crime scenes, exam grading would be full of inappropriate giggling.
Sherlock is in the "let's not even go there" category.
Yeah. I feel like he'd be the terror of his department, but so ridiculously brilliant in his publications that he'd get away with murder. (Figuratively. Probably.) His advisees would constantly vacillate between gleeful awe and nuclear frustration, because while they'd never, ever be good enough, they would also have the coolest projects ever.
Mrs. Hudson would be the emeritus faculty whose office you hide in whenever she's around, because she has both a secret stash of baked goods and all the best dirt on everybody.
Where do I find a Lestrade, do you think?
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