25 Deeply Painful Ph.d. Student Problems

August 14, 2013

[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]1.[/background] Telling children you’re in the 25th grade.[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]2.[/background] It’s been at least 10 years since you had a “real” weekend.[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]3.[/background] Realizing your vocabulary is permanently scattered with words like “problematic” and “ontological” and “hegemony.”[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]4.[/background] Coming up with all of your good ideas in the shower…[/b]

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[color=#222222][font=ProximaNovaRegular, arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=4][background=transparent]…and no good ideas during your oral defense.[/background][/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]5.[/background] Going to parties and everyone’s just standing around talking about their research.[/b]

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[color=#222222][font=ProximaNovaRegular, arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=4][background=transparent]…because none of you are in touch with pop culture in the slightest.[/background][/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color]

[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]6.[/background] When your undergrads ask constantly, “Is this going to be on the exam?”[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]7.[/background] Your average dinner is a bag of frozen vegetables topped with leftover shredded cheese and hot sauce.[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]8.[/background] When someone claims that being in a doctoral program isn’t “the same thing as having a real job”:[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]9.[/background] Trying to date another Ph.D. student:[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]10.[/background] Unironically referring to the library or the lab as “home.”[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]11.[/background] …and feeling ultra-guilty anytime you try to relax.[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]12.[/background] Finding an old paper you wrote your first year of grad school:[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]13.[/background] Realizing where most of your stipend went.[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]14.[/background] When master’s degree students complain about their workload, you’re just like:[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]15.[/background] Trying to make non-academic small talk with your advisor at a reception:[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]16.[/background] When all of your colleagues are married, and you’re just like:[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]17.[/background] Feeling some degree of “impostor syndrome” at least once a day.[/b]

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[color=#222222][font=ProximaNovaRegular, arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=4][background=transparent]…as in, you’re just waiting for someone to realize that they made a HUGE mistake letting you into your program and to swiftly kick you out.[/background][/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/color]

[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]18.[/background] When someone asks you for the 357th time what your dissertation is about:[/b]

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[color=#111111][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][b] [background=transparent]19.[/background] How you feel when your annual conference is in:[/b]

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[b] [background=transparent]20.[/background] Seeing someone on your dissertation committee outside of school:[/b]
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[b] [background=transparent]21.[/background] Grading your undergrads’ papers:[/b]
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[b] [background=transparent]22.[/background] When someone asks how “writing” is going:[/b]
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[b] [background=transparent]23.[/background] Trying to say something romantic to your significant other after a long day of coursework:[/b]
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[b] [background=transparent]24.[/background] Explaining to your friends with 9-to-5 jobs why you can’t go out on Friday night.[/b]
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[b] [background=transparent]25.[/background] When ANYONE asks you what your plan is after you graduate:[/b]
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