Things grad students do:
- Read
- Drink coffee
- Enjoy using big words
- Learn fascinating concepts that make their heads explode
- Dress up
- Wish they weren't dressed up
- Meet amazingly brilliant people
- Read
- Drink coffee
- Try not to cry in their faculty advisors' offices
- Run tests on their fellow students
- Give presentations
- Feel like bigshots around undergraduates
- Read
- Drink coffee
- Drink caffeinated soda
- Write papers
- Draw diagrams
- Feel like they are diving into a gigantic ocean of mysteries and discoveries
- Volunteer for events
- Read
- Drink coffee
- Try to stay awake in lecture
- Fall asleep in lecture
- Write papers
- Read
- Realize the massive and incredible awesomeness of God through study of His world
- Eat lots of cookies and pizza
- Get slap-happy over cookies and pizza at 8PM
- Drink coffee
- Write papers
- Read
Things grad students DON'T do:
- Sleep
- Go home before dinnertime
- Go on trips
- Complete their readings
- Leave their major building
- Sleep
- Wear sweatpants as often as they'd like
- See their families
- Sleep
- See their friends
- Sleep
- Or sleep
- Or SLEEP
- DID I MENTION THAT WE DON'T SLEEP
Why grad students do the things they do and don't do:
- Because they love what they're studying and want to devote the rest of their life to it
OR
- Because they realize one month into their studies that it's too late to back out now and they're going to be doing this for the next (insert some number between 2 and 12) years of their life whether they like it or not
BUT
- They know that someday it will all be worth it!!
this sounds a lot like what med students do. XD
ReplyDeletekeep it up though...I think it'll be done before you know it and soon we'll both be able to say it's worth it from the side of having done it. :)