You just might be a graduate student if...
- you can analyze the significance of appliances you cannot operate
- your office is better decorated than your apartment
- you have ever, as a folklore project, attempted to track the progress of your own joke across the Internet
- you are startled to meet people who neither need nor want to read
- you have ever brought a scholarly article to a bar
- you rate coffee shops by the availability of outlets for your laptop
- everything reminds you of something in your discipline
- you have ever discussed academic matters at a sporting event
- you have ever spent more than $50 on photocopying whileresearching a single paper
- there is a microfilm reader in the library that you consider"yours."
- you actually have a preference between microfilm and microfiche
- you can tell the time of day by looking at the traffic flow at the library
- you look forward to summers because you're more productive without the distraction of classes
- you regard ibuprofen as a vitamin
- you consider all papers to be works in progress
- professors don't really care when you turn in work anymore
- you find the bibliographies of books more interesting than the actual text
- you have given up trying to keep your books organized and are now just trying to keep them all in the same general area
- you have accepted guilt as an inherent feature of relaxation
- you reflexively start analyzing those Greek letters before you realize that it's a sorority sweatshirt, not an equation
- you find yourself explaining to children that you are in "20thgrade"
- you start referring to stories like "Snow White et al."
- you frequently wonder how long you can live on pasta without getting scurvy
- you look forward to taking some time off to do laundry
- you have more photocopy cards than credit cards
- you wonder if APA style allows you to cite talking to yourself as"personal communication"
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