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.
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...
Yeah...
by jack kane January 22, 2011
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Friend: Oh it’s because of my JUUL
Friend: JUUL IN MY POCKET GRADES GO SKYROCKET
Friend: Oh it’s because of my JUUL
Friend: JUUL IN MY POCKET GRADES GO SKYROCKET
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Get the JUUL In My Pocket Grades Go SkyRocket mug.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 15, 2011
Get the Grad Rich mug.Every grade after elementary school is the equivalent of hell. This is just the one that introduces you to hell. Maybe 5th grade was -kinda- like jail. This is 50x worse. No one really cares about their grades and they only care about their friends. Except they'll make a sex joke every 5 seconds and no one seems to care. Also, the teachers will either be really strict or really dense. However, you may find one or two teachers that offer forgiveness and seem like angels in this world of hell. Eventually those teachers will remind you that we'll all die in 40 years because of global warming.
6th grade.
Fun.
6th grade.
Fun.
Yes, I do hate 6th grade and will for the rest of my life.
5th grader: It can't be that bad!
Oh, but it is, you'll see.
5th grader: It can't be that bad!
Oh, but it is, you'll see.
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