Research.......

My roomate has recently joined PhD and the idea of getting into the research field and getting groomed for it through lectures and profs made her put her "research caps on". This is a term specially coined for her and people like her who read PhD comics for fun. I am not pulling their leg for 2 reasons 1) I am not inti enough for stuff like that and 2) Whoever read PhD comics does not need to know that research/no research its fun to read it....
So one day as she was crossing the traffic light, unknowingly she started calculation of how long it wud tk her to cross the road by walk and will it be faster on the bike or by the time she gets on the bike to cross the road and make way through the crowd it will tk the same time. She went away thinking on that. When she came home she narrated the incident and I decided to keep the memory of that first feeling.That was the day she realized her grooming for PhD had started taking shaping...I am sure since then things have kind of sinked in for her :)