Academic Content Lover Gifts

'Give me one of your lectures, Dad - I can't sleep!'

Grad School Parent-Teacher Conference

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

Eternal Student.

Burning the midnight oil.

"I've seem an awful lot of movies ever since they cut them all down to two minutes."

'Desert island cartoons - and you?'

Scarcity

"Doing your homework may lead to a job that has homework."

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

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

'So what are you studying, young man?'

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

Congratulations! All that cramming paid off.

Six Thinking Hats

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

"So the secret to getting good grades is to study hard...seems a little extreme!"

'The doctor says he's going to have to give you a few more tests...'

'I need to read five books this weekend to graduate - any suggestions?'

"I see here that you are a recent graduate."

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

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

Ten Years to get the Ph.D

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

Creativity 2.0

"Class, this is Mr. Elzondo. He's going to talk about going to college."

Max Weber

"I wanted to deliver a message of hope and tolerance in a complex global society but I decided to update them on the Kardashians instead."

Can you translate that to simple-minded!

"I devote most of my time to defending the bastions of culture."

Teacher boxing book: 'As I told you, today we're gonna really hit the books!'

End of Affirmative Action

'OKAY, okay Sandra, I'll PAY for your University course. But it BETTER NOT cost me an arm and a leg!...'

"Dad, the dean has gone over your financial statement, and he doesn't think you're working up to your full potential."

'In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of tenure.'