Academia Adventurers Pillows

Girl to mom about report card: 'Second grade is hard because all of my training was in the first grade.'

'Perhaps this would feel less painful if you try focusing on your own life rather than living vicariously through mine.'

'I have this fear of the real world...'

"If a stock falls in the market, and it had no investors, does it really lose its value?"

Postgraduates A group of posts on their way to class.

No caption (A young bald eagle plays a claw game full of fish as his parent stands behind him).

He may have a PH.D in elementary particle physics, but he's having an awful lot of trouble with the application form.

'Desert island cartoons - and you?'

'He's not as studious as he looks - his backpack is full of comic books.'

'This has been a drill. Had this been an actual test you would have been instructed...'

'I ace 'wheeling' but I flunked 'dealing'' - Boy on leaving Business Administration.

"Miss Rogers told me I have a personal 'cloud' to store knowledge in."

'It says I missed freshmen Orientation and I have to take it in summer school in order to graduate.'

"This was a wicked-hard test. I'm pretty sure everybody got a bad grade."

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"I want a top education, but don't milk me dry with school fees."

Thank you for not doing research that has already been done.

'You know what they say - 'Those who don't learn the lessons of history are doomed to go to summer school.''

'The good teen-age mime chooses to study for an exam, while the bad one chooses to steal hubcaps.'

Robotics. He's programmed to play video games all day long. Planned adolescence!

'I'd like to challenge the test.'

"Graduation day at kite flying school."

Neuro, Biology, Chemistry, Feedback, Psychology, Technology, Physiology Institute

Your salary as a research assistant is commensurate on your ability of spell, define, and delineate the work 'commensurate.'

Paper to boy: 'Did you forget something? I'm your take home test.'

"And in the category of 'The Most Amazing Comeback from an Academic Nosedive,' the winner is..."

"Turtling: When a child's backpack exceeds his weight"

"Where are redactions when you need them?"

University Cafeteria. The first semester of college is tough. I'm not taking geography because I couldn't find the classroom on the map. I'm way behind on my archeology assignments. I'm buried and need to dig my way out. And everybody in political science lies and cheats to get ahead. How are you doing in statistics? I think I'm doing very well! My test scores are hugely below the class median. I should probably learn what that means.

"We thought this was more realistic."

'If history keeps repeating itself, why do I have to repeat this class?'

"And just how do you expect to become a made man, son, without a solid liberal-arts education?"

'Will Mr. 'No Comment' please remain after class.'

'Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study.'

'You will now be presented with your degrees. That is, of course, after you jump through another one of our little hoops.'