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What makes someone a good grad student

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

2 Comments

  1. 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

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