grad school
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 alcoholismTHE 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.Grad School
Noun.
Short for: Graduate School
A place your social life goes to die and your wallet goes for a long term crash diet.
A place any remaining sanity left after undergraduate school, and any duration of living in the real world post-undergrad, is officially taken away.
Short for: Graduate School
A place your social life goes to die and your wallet goes for a long term crash diet.
A place any remaining sanity left after undergraduate school, and any duration of living in the real world post-undergrad, is officially taken away.
Example:
"I owe over $150,000 dollars in student loans from grad school and all I got was this stupid underpaid job."
"I owe over $150,000 dollars in student loans from grad school and all I got was this stupid underpaid job."
grad school hot
When mediocre-looking people are perceived to be more attractive than they actually are due to the confines and maladaptive effects of graduate school.
The phenomenon of mediocre-looking people finding themselves fought over by increasingly desperate people.
The phenomenon of mediocre-looking people finding themselves fought over by increasingly desperate people.
Example:
Is she hot or just grad school hot?
He's totally hot.
You've been in grad school too long. He's only grad school hot.
Is she hot or just grad school hot?
He's totally hot.
You've been in grad school too long. He's only grad school hot.