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Limbo; purgatory; a place where you waste the best years of your life apprenticing for the PhD guild. THE BAD: - endless homework - potentially asshole professors - little social life - boring repetitive classes - dull TA work - shit pay - you might end up in the middle of nowhere - constant moving massacres relationships. Remember the girlfriend who left you because she couldn't take the long-distance relationship? Your friends? The family you see for 2 weeks per year? Better forget them... Easier that way. - having to teach obscenely hot 18 year olds without being able to touch them - leads to frigidity and involuntary abstinence - it's 4am. You went to class between 9 and 12. You ate pretzels for lunch, then you graded for 4 hours. Then you wrote homework. Now your eyes are bleeding and you have the urge to cut. - once (if) you graduate, you have to move again, in order go to post-doc, which is the same as grad school except you get a few bucks more and you write fewer pages of homework - incipient alcoholism THE GOOD: - incipient alcoholism - easy ticket to the first world for talented third worlders - easy ticket to a big city if you luck out - you can really slack away if you play your cards right - 3+ months of vacation - sort of intellectual - beats the fucking 9 to 5. You're making 40K working 40 hours a week with 2 weeks vacation? In grad school people can make ~20K with ~10 hours of work per week and 3 months vacation. You do the math. I decided to go to grad school... Sure, I don't have a girlfriend... Or a car... And my friends from my old city have all but forgotten me... And I write 40 pages of homework per week... And the hot students I teach are driving me insane... And the old professor fucks are raping me at every opportunity... And I'm on a first name basis with the liquor store owner... But goddamn, at least I'm not in the 9 to 5! Yesterday, Wednesday the 12th, I slept until 1pm and then I watched 3 movies, played games for 4 hours, and drank 14 beers. Tomorrow, on Friday, I'll do the same. In a month it'll be summer again and I'll fly home to see my friends and get a nice tan... I used to think about graduation, but that was 2 years ago.
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Short for Graduate School. A way of putting off entering the real world. "She went to grad school to delay the inevitable, a real job"
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A place for people that can't handle the real world Without a report card, I'd have a nervous fucking breakdown!! -- CollegeHumor
My dad made the bad mistake of going to grad school. Now he only knows about theory but has no life skills. |
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