Academic Adventures Pillows

"...get in there and make my post docs fall in love with their research."

'What a day! A million things on my mind, and not one of them turned up on the test.'

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

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

Eternal Student.

"I still haven't decided if I want to be unemployed as an English major or as a Communications major."

Postgraduates A group of posts on their way to class.

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.'

Scarcity

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

"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.'

'Great news, Dear! I've been traded to a think tank in California for a PhD Specializing in the Baltics!'

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

"Philosophy Department. Why may I direct your call?"

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

Type A Freshman - changed courses four times, got a job, organized a protest, quit the job, plans to take second semester abroad.

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

"It started with a simple case of peer-review."

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

'I'd like to challenge the test.'

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

How did you get your parents to send you to Costa Rica this summer, Ingrid? By almost flunking Spanish. That's dire. Hardly! I'll party and practice my accent. Next year�remind me to bring my French grade down. Si!

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

"We thought this was more realistic."

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

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.

"I'd like to change my major from dental to mental."

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

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

"Graduation day at kite flying school."

School. Learning is a lifelong process. It's only the graduation ceremonies that end.