1. Telling children you’re in the 25th grade
3. Realizing your vocabulary is permanently scattered with words like “problematic” and “ontological” and “hegemony”
4. Coming up with all of your good ideas in the shower …
… and no good ideas during your oral defense.
5. Going to parties and everyone’s just standing around talking about their research
… because none of you are in touch with pop culture in the slightest.
7. Your average dinner is a bag of frozen vegetables topped with leftover shredded cheese and hot sauce
8. When someone claims that being in a doctoral program isn’t “the same thing as having a real job”
14. When master’s degree students complain about their workload, you’re just like
15. Trying to make non-academic small talk with your advisor at a reception
17. Feeling some degree of “impostor syndrome” at least once a day
… as in, you’re just waiting for
someone to realize that they made a HUGE mistake letting you into your
program and to swiftly kick you out.
19. How you feel when your annual conference is in
Hawaii.
Rochester.
20. Seeing someone on your dissertation committee outside of school
23. Trying to say something romantic to your significant other after a long day of coursework
24. Explaining to your friends with 9-to-5 jobs why you can’t go out on Friday night
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