A fictional place in the video-game Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater. Groznyj Grad is a fortress which the main character Snake must infiltrate to rescue a hostage and remove a nuclear threat.
"Snake, you must get into Groznyj Grad to rescue Sokolov"

"TJ, have you got to Groznyj Grad in that Snake Eater game yet?"
by T.J June 4, 2005
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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.
Yeah...
by jack kane January 21, 2011
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You have massive student loans and an apartment where the electrical and plumbing compete daily for the title of "utility most likely to fail catastrophically." You almost certainly don't own a car and probably don't drive. If you do own a car, it as at least 30% rust and you don't lock it because you know no one in their right mind would steal it. Nevertheless you own at least two of the following: an iPad, iPhone, this-generation netbook, nice leather satchel or silk scarf that you think makes you look sophisticated, you eat and drink out at least 5 times a week, and have opinions about restaurants you should not mathematically be able to afford. You are grad rich.
Look for anyone in their mid-20s on a university campus with a high-tech carrying case and shoes that they have clearly owned since high school. They are grad rich.
by Moiche January 14, 2011
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Grad students perform all the dull parts of research professors don't want to do.
by Lugnut92 August 31, 2009
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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"
by jln4jc January 13, 2009
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A sudden urge to sleep, and the immediate act of satisfying this urge - the kind only experienced by students in graduate law programs at university.
The urge occurs irrespective of caffeine intake - and is, quite dangerously, contagious.
Often brought on by the mere mention of estoppel, promissory notes, misfeasance in a public office or annotated legislation.
C: Wow, six hours of university in a row. Grad-nap?

A: For sure. I've already painted my nails and had a three-shot black coffee. It's no wonder I feel a Grad-nap coming on.
by Reggie Blade May 5, 2010
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mispronounciation of "Grade 9", used by french teachers who forget to wear pants that inform their students that they are really so lucky
teacher - really grad 9 you are such so lucky
student- yes sir thank you its because last time we did one grammar part
by leafblower99 March 8, 2022
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