Law of selective inertia

I am pretty sure that everyone who has passed 12th grade is not new to Newton's first law of motion, also known as 'law of inertia'. It defines inertia as the tendency of a body to remain in its current state of motion unless and until acted upon by an external unbalanced force.. wow, that was a successful rendition of some of the crap i learnt in physics... but i digress..

Upon very careful and thouroughly scientific observations of many graduate students' lives, i have devised an ingenious theory which explains the apparently absurd behaviour of a grad student... (I was bitten by a lemur with a name 'King Julian XIII')...

The theory goes like this:

"A graduate student has a tendency to remain in his state of motion unless and until acted upon by external mentally balancing force"

To justify my thoery, let me give some examples

1) Getting out of bed in morning (or more likely afternoon) / getting out of the shower on a cold day / getting away from the compter while facebooking (or blogging)... in these cases, the external force rather negatively affects the mental state by making you work / get ready / go out in the cold and walk to the lab... hence you tend to exhibit a state of inertia...

2) getting out of the lab / going out of the lecture hall after a lecture is over / going for a movie... in these cases, the external force is quite good for the mental balance by making you not work /
finish your nap and get some fresh air / watch a movie... hence the student temporarily shuts down the inertia and is remarkably ready to change the state of motion..


Hence, my theory of selective inertia hold true !!


Now, being a graduate student, i obviously obey the law of selective inertia... but the external force (high pitched and angry sounds coming from my PI's office) is quite overwhelming and so it is taking me out of my state of inertia... so.. gotta go.. bye