Well, that’s certainly the impression I get from grad students. 😉
We also need to pin down med school, law school, and perhaps business school.
Maybe a tasteless prenatal metaphor for med school?
Med school year 1: “Fertilization.”
Med school year 2: “The Quickening.”
Med school year 3: “The Year of Morning Sickness.”
Med school year 4: “The Dilation.”
Or something less graphic:
Year 1: “Textbook Safari.”
Year 2: “The Year on the Precipice.”
Year 3: “The Costume Party.”
Year 4: “The Year of the Nomad.”
Grad school years should be religiously/monastically themed: the Penance, the Confession (if your particular degree requires lots of self-reflection papers), the Flagellation, Limbo, Purgatory, or maybe “the Suffering.”
Love it.
What about grad school? Are we in zombie apocalypse mode by then?
Well, that’s certainly the impression I get from grad students. 😉
We also need to pin down med school, law school, and perhaps business school.
Maybe a tasteless prenatal metaphor for med school?
Med school year 1: “Fertilization.”
Med school year 2: “The Quickening.”
Med school year 3: “The Year of Morning Sickness.”
Med school year 4: “The Dilation.”
Or something less graphic:
Year 1: “Textbook Safari.”
Year 2: “The Year on the Precipice.”
Year 3: “The Costume Party.”
Year 4: “The Year of the Nomad.”
Open to other suggestions on all fronts.
The first six months after your first child is born: “Two Shuffling Zombies”
The next 17½ years: “Homo Semi-Sapiens”
And after that… Sweet Freedom, or Shell-Shock?
Some of each, it turns out.
I come here strictly for the life-like drawings of bears. This post was severely lacking…
There’s actually a photorealistic polar bear in panel #3, invisible against the white background.
Grad school years should be religiously/monastically themed: the Penance, the Confession (if your particular degree requires lots of self-reflection papers), the Flagellation, Limbo, Purgatory, or maybe “the Suffering.”
College is the witness protection program — ha!
Ooh, I like the monastic theme. Seems like “Limbo” is sadly apt for all of grad school.