| | You might be a PhD student if...
Project
- You refer to late work as an "ongoing project"
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You procrastinate on one project by working on another project.
- You are working on one thing but feeling guilty that you aren't working on the other thing
Study
- You get a 3-hour final with 5 questions or less
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More than 25% of your textbook is "left as an exercise for the reader."
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The number of library books that you have checked out at one time= 20
library books checked out from two university libraries, 2 books on
hold, 2 books from a different state, and 2 books borrowed from
professors... and then you wonder why you are online instead of reading
them...
Life Style
- 14 hours a day on campus is typical, even on an elusive day known as Saturday
- You appreciate the fact that you get to choose which twenty hours out of the day you have to work
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You have a favorite flavor of instant noodle
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You look forward to summers because you're more productive without the distraction of classes
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The area under your desk is never vacuumed because you are occupying your desk when the cleaners vacuum at 4am
- You look forward to taking some time off to do laundry
Money Related
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You are staying in school simply to avoid paying off the tens of thousands of dollars you owe the government in student loans
- You think you should be paying rent for your office instead of your home
Occupational disease
- You are constantly looking for a thesis in novels
- You find the bibliographies of books more interesting than the actual text
- You start referring to "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" as "White et al"
- You get irresistible urges to use in-text citations in casual e-mails
- You write programs for classes that have nothing to do with programming
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You have ever brought a scholarly article to a bar
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You have ever discussed academic matters at a sporting event
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You have ever brought books with you on vacation and actually studied
Skills
- You can analyze the significance of appliances you cannot operate
- You can identify universities by their internet domains
- You can read course books and cook at the same time
Other Entities in the Univeristy
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You look at undergrads and long for the "simple life"
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You can't help but sigh with envy when you overhear undergrads stress over 10 pg final papers in the elevator
- People (non-grad students) ask you "Are you going to be done soon?" and you laugh but inside a little part of you dies
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Professors don't really care when you turn in work anymore.
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You actually _hope_ your professor assigns homework
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