Grad School Memes For Student Inching Towards Their PhDs

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Mar 7, 2023 12:30 PM EST

Grad school is one of the craziest things you can willingly subject yourself to. You have to work 16 hours a day on one very specific subject, teach 3 courses, and live off of a $15,000 stipend. Sounds simple enough, right? Grad school is different for everyone, and there are many different types of postgraduate academics. There are the people who are in it for the long haul and for the love of the game, aspiring to be academics forever. There are those who go into grad school straight after undergrad because they don't know what to do with their lives. There are those purely in it for mercenary reasons, getting that professional degree and scramming as soon as possible. Whatever kind of grad student you are, you're all united by the emotion of suffering. One needs to commiserate with their fellow grad students, and what better way to do that than through memes? 

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    Font - Somto @somto_lhezue grad school assignment I used to think adulthood was one crisis after another. I was wrong. Multiple H.W crises. Concurrently. All at once. All the time. Forever.
    via @somto_lhezue
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    Plant - GRAD SCHOOL ORIENTATION DAY 林 THIS RIDE ONLY STOPS IN AN EMERGENCY. CRYING IS NOT AN EMERGENCY
    via grad school memes with relatable themes
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    Forehead - I need to keep up with current research Go through arxiv regularly then 11 O
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    Computer - Five months ago at orientation, being told what a 'literature review' was: (confused unga bunga) Me feeling like a hack because my literature review is only 22 pages so far:
    via grad school memes with relatable themes
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    Art - ARR Senior grad DEAL KAE First year grad students One Cover
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    Smile - PI ? I'm thinking what it is a better WAY to interpret the data... PhD student THROW AWAY
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    Watch - my parents: we want grandkids!!! me: lin.com BEST I CAN DO IS a doctorate degree
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    Sleeve - Me on my way to show my supervisor my latest data set NEW he @phdmeming made with mematic fairiy 7
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    Mammal - me on my 4th class and 3rd research project my sweet professors assigning us more helpful readings 2
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    Outerwear - A Using "etc". because there are too many examples Using "etc". because you don't know anymore examples
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    Font - Dr. Jaclyn A. Siegel @jacasiegel I said yes!!!!!!!! Someone asked me if I was STILL working on that paper I started three years ago.
    via @jacasiegel
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    Cartoon - imgflip.com REVIEWER 2 ME REVIEWER 1
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    Output device - When I die - I want to be buried at my alma mater. Wife: But you were were only an online student I want to finally be on campus... cremate, scan, and upload me to a discussion board and tag my old student advisor Epson Perfection V39 made with mematic
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    Cat - When i see yet another esoteric paper about something irrelevant to my field DAIHATSU Save PDF
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    Outerwear - prof requires APA 6 formatting points off for not listing all authors up to 20 i cite the first 6 authors, ellipses, add the last author points off for not listing all authors up to 20
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    Grass - I did NOT appreciate my advisor's feedback WORKS JUST NOT SMART on the first draft of my dissertatation
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    Shoe - -cgf YOUR PAPER AFTER TOO MANY REVISIONS
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    Food - When you incorporate all the feedback from every critique. @thejealouscurator I just cackled
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    Head - It's time for you to look inward, and begin asking yourself the big questions WHAT YOUR DISSERTATION IS GOING TO BE ON? imgflip.com
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    Facial expression - Me Finishing my dissertation. Triggered mé Getting a PhD Getting a PhD
    via grad school memes with relatable themes
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    Hair - struggling in your field of work struggling in multiple fields at once but your combination is unique enough so you're still one of the interdisciplinary experts
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    Natural environment - Me when I first started Grad school Me now: SZ
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    Facial expression - When your western looks better than last time but it still needs work MONEY
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    Beard - ON LAMPA WATU Me My thesis
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    Forehead - Academic paper: "It can be readily seen that...' [I Me: I'm tired of "readily seeing", boss.
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    Glasses - My coping strategy for the rest of grad school I'll just put this over here with the rest... of the fire.
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    Forehead - my advisor "LUZ! THAT argument is worth less THAN YOUR thesis me, trying my dept head my argument "OH, THAT'S HOW WE JOKE. SHE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A worthwhile thesis
    via grad school memes with relatable themes
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    Clothing - 76-year-old Student Finally Graduates 50 Years After He Began His Ph.D. in Philosophy February 16 2023 Read More
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    Eyelash - Academic paper: "It can be clearly seen that..." Me, who just started reading this paper on a Monday morning:
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    Product - "A PhD will open a lot of doors for you" Me at those doors after a PhD: Let me in. LET ME IIIIHIIN! [adult swim [aduit swim]
    via grad school memes with relatable themes

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