1. Never have you known so much information and felt so much like you know absolutely nothing at all about what you're studying.
2. Never have you been so good at detecting when people are pretending like they know more about what they're studying.
3. Never have classes felt more redundant than graduate seminars, especially those that have some undergrad attendees and their habitual circular questions.
4. The above make for the best environment you can find to meet other people to talk about intelligent things and feel like you're being challenged, validated, and learning all at the same time.
5. The above make for the best environment you can watch number 2 happen in real time and watch people claim very sincerely that they know everything there is in the world to know, simply because they pondered it for an instant.
6. There will never be a satisfactory balance of 4 and 5 inside the university, there will never be too much of number 4 outside of it.
7. When no one else is around to talk to about your big revelation or help you work with ideas for a paper, wine is there for you. Grad school is actually a cover for a budding specialization in enology.
8. You can trick yourself into considering money a relative or abstract concept, rationalizing and theorizing its existence into something you are detached from, until you have none and bills are due.
9. You never realized that nuts, and not their legume impostors, and berries, were such a luxury and so delicious.
10. Your thesis is not so much a tangible thing as it is a relative concept, something that happens in phases you're only aware happened in a void of space, time, and wine consumption.
2. Never have you been so good at detecting when people are pretending like they know more about what they're studying.
3. Never have classes felt more redundant than graduate seminars, especially those that have some undergrad attendees and their habitual circular questions.
4. The above make for the best environment you can find to meet other people to talk about intelligent things and feel like you're being challenged, validated, and learning all at the same time.
5. The above make for the best environment you can watch number 2 happen in real time and watch people claim very sincerely that they know everything there is in the world to know, simply because they pondered it for an instant.
6. There will never be a satisfactory balance of 4 and 5 inside the university, there will never be too much of number 4 outside of it.
7. When no one else is around to talk to about your big revelation or help you work with ideas for a paper, wine is there for you. Grad school is actually a cover for a budding specialization in enology.
8. You can trick yourself into considering money a relative or abstract concept, rationalizing and theorizing its existence into something you are detached from, until you have none and bills are due.
9. You never realized that nuts, and not their legume impostors, and berries, were such a luxury and so delicious.
10. Your thesis is not so much a tangible thing as it is a relative concept, something that happens in phases you're only aware happened in a void of space, time, and wine consumption.
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