You might be a graduate student if...
• You can analyze 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 have ever brought a scholarly article to a bar.
• You rate coffee shops by the availability of wireless Internet.
• 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 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 find the bibliographies of books more interesting than the actual text.
• You have given up trying to keep your books organized and are now just trying to keep them all in the same general area.
• You have accepted guilt as an inherent feature of relaxation.
• You find yourself explaining to children that you are in "20th grade".
• You start referring to stories like "Snow White et al."
• You frequently wonder how long you can live on pasta without getting scurvy.
• You look forward to taking some time off to do laundry.
• You wonder if APA style allows you to cite talking to yourself as "personal communication".
• You are constantly looking for a thesis in novels.
• You consider caffeine to be a major food group.
• You've ever traveled across two state lines specifically to go to a library.
• You appreciate the fact that you get to choose which twenty hours out of the day you have to work.
• Saturday nights spent studying no longer seem weird.
• You can analyze 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 have ever brought a scholarly article to a bar.
• You rate coffee shops by the availability of wireless Internet.
• 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 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 find the bibliographies of books more interesting than the actual text.
• You have given up trying to keep your books organized and are now just trying to keep them all in the same general area.
• You have accepted guilt as an inherent feature of relaxation.
• You find yourself explaining to children that you are in "20th grade".
• You start referring to stories like "Snow White et al."
• You frequently wonder how long you can live on pasta without getting scurvy.
• You look forward to taking some time off to do laundry.
• You wonder if APA style allows you to cite talking to yourself as "personal communication".
• You are constantly looking for a thesis in novels.
• You consider caffeine to be a major food group.
• You've ever traveled across two state lines specifically to go to a library.
• You appreciate the fact that you get to choose which twenty hours out of the day you have to work.
• Saturday nights spent studying no longer seem weird.
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