25 Deeply Painful Ph.d. Student Problems (Besides Your Thesis)

[accuman]

[b] [background=transparent]1.[/background] Telling children you’re in the 25th grade.[/b]


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[accuman]

[b] [background=transparent]2.[/background] It’s been at least 10 years since you had a “real” weekend.[/b]


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[accuman]

[b] [background=transparent]3.[/background] Realizing your vocabulary is permanently scattered with words like “problematic” and “ontological” and “hegemony.”[/b]


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[jbourne]

ninna ne chusina ikkada phd guys evaru vundaru ani veyaledu

[accuman]

[b] [background=transparent]4.[/background] Coming up with all of your good ideas in the shower…[/b]


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

[accuman]

[b] [background=transparent]5.[/background] Going to parties and everyone’s just standing around talking about their research.[/b]


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

[accuman]

[b] [background=transparent]6.[/background] When your undergrads ask constantly, “Is this going to be on the exam?[/b]


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[Jatka Bandi]

[quote name='jbourne' timestamp='1376608285' post='1304121536']
ninna ne chusina ikkada phd guys evaru vundaru ani veyaledu
[/quote]Ravana brother and a couple others... ippudu vastunnaro ledo

[accuman]

[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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[ravana]

ninnane vesa brother
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[accuman]

[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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[jbourne]

[quote name='bantrothu bullabbai' timestamp='1376608420' post='1304121545']
Ravana brother and a couple others
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yeah agreed

[accuman]

[b] [background=transparent]9.[/background] Trying to date another Ph.D. student:[/b]


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[accuman]

[b] [background=transparent]10.[/background] Unironically referring to the library or the lab as “home.”[/b]


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[accuman]

[b] [background=transparent]11.[/background] …and feeling ultra-guilty anytime you try to relax.[/b]


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