graduate student


one who chooses to add to the breadth of their education by embarking upon a program that may award him/her a master’s degree, a ph.d, or no degree at all. while this decision may, under very particular circ-mstances, lead to a position as a tenured professor in a university, it will most likely lead to a decade or more of delaying the individual’s entry to what most people would call the “real” world. becoming a graduate student allows one to enter the self-perpetuating inst-tution of academia.
ex. 1
typical sign in a physical sciences laboratory: “do not feed graduate students and other lab animals.”

ex. 2
grad student: “i’m writing a thesis on the remnants of victorian culture in modern stereotypes of transylvania.”

friend: “what are you going to use that for?”

grad student: “i hope to become an english professor because if i’m lucky, i may one day out-earn high school teachers.”
a young adult whose number one motivating factor is free food.
marissa, a graduate student, just attended a pointless workshop on conflict resolution just because there was free pizza there.

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