An “Academic Whore” is someone who will stop at nothing to achieve what they want in a scholastic setting. Activities he or she engages in to achieve their “ideal grade” include:
• Openly and unabashedly flirting or sucking up to a professor or higher academic authority.
• Sabotaging other students’ projects so that his or her project looks better in comparison
• Hoarding research materials, textbooks, articles and back work (previous exams, etc) from other students
• Hogging professor time after class with mundane questions so that other students with legitimate questions won’t get a chance to have them answered then
• Spending more time than necessary or socially acceptable with teaching assistants so that grades can be “boosted” if need be
• Joining a specific professor’s club just for a semester so the professor can think that the academic whore is “legitimately interested in their field of work”.
• The academic whore feels justified in conversation when they can drop names and references, and they expect you to be awed by their sheer presence even if their conversational skills are on par with a potato’s.
• The academic whore is a master at judging people based on numbers on pieces of paper. While they are taught to value true qualities, they cannot bring themselves to do so due to the extreme mental capacity they devote to fitting a banal mold.
• Openly and unabashedly flirting or sucking up to a professor or higher academic authority.
• Sabotaging other students’ projects so that his or her project looks better in comparison
• Hoarding research materials, textbooks, articles and back work (previous exams, etc) from other students
• Hogging professor time after class with mundane questions so that other students with legitimate questions won’t get a chance to have them answered then
• Spending more time than necessary or socially acceptable with teaching assistants so that grades can be “boosted” if need be
• Joining a specific professor’s club just for a semester so the professor can think that the academic whore is “legitimately interested in their field of work”.
• The academic whore feels justified in conversation when they can drop names and references, and they expect you to be awed by their sheer presence even if their conversational skills are on par with a potato’s.
• The academic whore is a master at judging people based on numbers on pieces of paper. While they are taught to value true qualities, they cannot bring themselves to do so due to the extreme mental capacity they devote to fitting a banal mold.
Academic Whore: "Professor I read your article on fibroblasts maintaining the extra cellular matrix in iguana cells and I have to say it was the best thing I've ever read in my life! You inspired me to be a better person! My parents want you to come over for dinner!"
Professor: "Shut up, you fucking academic whore."
Professor: "Shut up, you fucking academic whore."
by lalalillies January 25, 2010
The process of learning or memorizing by rote, subsequently followed by the regurgitation of that knowledge onto an exam answer sheet. Just as with the serious eating disorder, this form of bulemia results in no real retention of substance.
This term is frequently applied to describe a common practice of young medical students.
This term is frequently applied to describe a common practice of young medical students.
I can't remember anything that I learned last night. It's like I grabbed the answer sheet, puked out all the answers and forgot everything immediately. I'd say that's academic bulimia.
by Thomas Suszynski January 5, 2009
At the college level, undertaking a seemingly-impossible course load to the point of total mental meltdown. Often seen in the more technical disciplines, such as engineering and the sciences.
Person 1: Dude, you're taking mechanics, differential equations, fluid mechanics, fields and waves, AND string theory?! That's academic suicide!
Person 2: ...yeah :(
Person 2: ...yeah :(
by Jutrick April 27, 2009
Armed with education. Carrying knowledge and degrees like a gangster carries weapons and ammunition.
Though he seems like just a street poet and a rapper, he's academically strapped and knows his shit. He's college educated and went to graduate school at NYU.
by Gatt May 2, 2014
Spending your life researching things that, although may be on point, nothing will be done to progress the area actively. Implicated in life sciences for example
Going to university for 7 years to become a lecturer within that field for the rest of your life is an act of academic masturbation
by freeseed March 30, 2015
A social academic is what every college girl is looking for. He is the perfect balance between social charisma and academic excellence. It is important to note that a social academic cannot be too social or too academic, but rather a perfect balance between the two. This makes the social academic a rare and desirable breed of male specimen.
Sydney: "I really like Danny, but he's just not a social academic."
Taylor: "That sucks, my boy is a commerce major and can do a keg stand for 3 minutes. He's a perfect social academic."
Taylor: "That sucks, my boy is a commerce major and can do a keg stand for 3 minutes. He's a perfect social academic."
by crazyducks January 20, 2015
A mind-numbing condition resulting from a severe and/or unexpected increase in academic responsibilities, usually occurring near or around the end of an academic term.
Friend 1: Hey man, are you doing ok?
Friend 2: Nah, man. I have the worst academic whiplash, finals are killing me.
Friend 2: Nah, man. I have the worst academic whiplash, finals are killing me.
by spyroman December 19, 2013