14. I admit it, damn it. I voted for Nader. And you know what: I’d do it again. You know why? Because I vote as an exercise in absurdity, not to elect any particular person.
Even though I’ve only been to one grad school party at one grad school thus far, I consider myself both able and qualified to judge what the true form of a graduate student is like. Enjoy:
- Facial hair in either of the following styles:
- Neat, trimmed, yet odd
- Hobo
- Crazy beliefs and combinations of incompatible beliefs in either of the following styles:
- Religious
- Non-religious
- Wild claims
- A high tolerance for alcohol
- Trivial knowledge and knowledge of trivia
- Competitiveness
- Knowledge of stuff you can’t even comprehend
- Wild claims of knowing stuff beyond stuff you can’t even comprehend
I knew it!
You forgot to mention, in matters of dress you can’t tell them apart from that guy who stands on the corner and shouts stuff at people