23 PhD Student Memes to Help Procrastinate Working on Your Overdue Research Paper

If you've made it far enough in your academic career, you've probably learned the value in fighting procrastination. However, it's tough for your average brainiac to knuckle down and crank out their work promptly. With 6-months-from-now due dates and your advisor lacadasically providing their feedback on your work, suddenly the school year zips by and now you have about a week to assemble a dissertation that should have taken the full year. Eek!

Months of hard work crammed into a week? How gnarly could it be?

Lo and behold, PhD students know how to cram when they need to. That's the one universal lesson in college regardless of your discipline. When it comes to doing good, solid work in a timely fashion, PhD students have you covered! Perhaps that's why we're all comfortably calling them Doctor after they've gotten their degree sorted out—we know that, under pressure, these academics soar higher than the A's they're reaching for, climbing to new heights and discovering hidden knowledge that'll save humanity! At least… that's the idea.

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Do I even know what I'm writing my research paper on? Finding a topic for your research is arguably the hardest part. It needs to be a niche topic but not too niche, and it needs to be a well-studied subject but not overdone. That's why PhD students always get caught in a weird feedback loop sending their research on a trajectory that nobody could have predicted—not even your wise advisor.
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