You just might be a grad
student if...
? ...you can analyse the significance of appliances you cannot operate.
? ...your carrel is better decorated than your apartment.
? ...you have ever, as a folklore project, attempted to track the progress of your own joke across the Internet.
? ...you are startled to meet people who neither need nor want to read.
? ...you have ever brought a scholarly article to a bar.
? ...you rate coffee shops by the availability of outlets for your laptop.
? ...everything reminds you of something in your discipline.
? ...you have ever discussed academic matters at a sporting event.
? ...you have ever spent more than $50 on photocopying while researching a single paper.
? ....you start refering to stories like ?Snow White et al.?
? ...you can tell the time of day by looking at the traffic flow at the library.
? ...you look forward to summers because you?re more productive without the distraction of classes.
? ...you consider all papers to be works in progress.
? ...teachers don?t care when you turn in work anymore.
? ...you find the bibliographies of books more interesting than the actual text.
? ...you have given up trying to keep your books organised and are now trying to keep them all in the same general area.
? ...you have accepted guilt as an inherent feature of relaxation. ? David McKay
my own addition:
...you are not worried about finishing your papers on time.
..you look at the undergraduate kids and say, "I was much mature when I was an undergraduate".
..almost every thing you say begins with, "yeah when I was an Undergraduate..."
...you prefer to eat out than at the school's cafeteria.
...you know every bar in the area.
...you are not much into beer.
...you do not wnat to miss your classes- even if it means going to your morning clasess straight from your neighborhood bar
...you have set amazon.com as your homepage
...you subsrcibe to at least 50 e-newsletters but never read any of those
...you check your email every 4 hrs but do not reply to any mail for at least 4 weeks
...you read only 30% of the books you buy. (Seventy percent you keep on hold.. I'll read them this summer).
...you have become pretty good at using your library's search engine/database. You can find whatever that you need in less than a minute.
...your room is filled with photociped materials and J Stor downloads (90% of which you are never going to read).
...you are involved wth 20 different college committees, that do not even meet once.
...you are always thinking undergrad kids are having too much fun.
...you think that if you were undergrad again, you would get all As.
...you are smoking lighter cigarettes.
...you are drinking more coffee.
...you don't know much about new movies/new songs.
and finally,
you are looking for hair loss prevention products/suggestions on Sajha!