tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post2568167285780849635..comments2024-03-24T21:12:27.165-07:00Comments on 100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School: 51. You are surrounded by undergraduates.100 Reasonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13655155303350793785noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-41614933526193872242017-01-08T18:42:16.928-08:002017-01-08T18:42:16.928-08:00jesus so many retarded nerds in these comments...jesus so many retarded nerds in these comments...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-36862443204894801582016-09-02T08:11:53.325-07:002016-09-02T08:11:53.325-07:00It feels extremely weird being a grad assistant. I...It feels extremely weird being a grad assistant. I can't imagine what PhD students feel like. The students you taught while you were earning your Master's degree may be out in the non-academic world and potentially out-earning you by your 3rd year of doctoral studies! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-84527970177177359412015-08-22T11:01:23.684-07:002015-08-22T11:01:23.684-07:00That's kind of pointless to conclude. First of...That's kind of pointless to conclude. First off, it's a generalization that obviously isn't true for all grad students; in my experience, grad students can be quite humble, kind, and altruistic, especially compared to undergrad students. (Of course, this isn't always the case.) Second, "deluded self-aggrandizing douchebags" can be found among virtually all groups of people, not limited to merely grad students. They can be found among elementary, middle school, and undergrad students, as well as bosses, employees, retired people, along with every other group of people in existence. Similarly, people who are assholes can be found among all groups, so there's no reason to "OMG" about it. :PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-72068551584213157872015-04-26T11:00:46.189-07:002015-04-26T11:00:46.189-07:00i did not anticipate this kind of comment stream.
...i did not anticipate this kind of comment stream.<br /><br />in response to the other reasons, people agreed/disagreed with the reason or thought that it was not pertinent or was repetitive.<br /><br />but the responses to this revealed a lot about where people's minds were.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-18780283298106602182015-04-26T10:54:53.565-07:002015-04-26T10:54:53.565-07:00the most revealing, i would say.the most revealing, i would say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-50004740867722159912013-06-28T09:05:38.575-07:002013-06-28T09:05:38.575-07:00Implying hot undergrads go for bummy, poor, wrinkl...Implying hot undergrads go for bummy, poor, wrinkly professors for anything else than an occasional grade. I doubt most professors can pull even that off and just give them straight A's for a wink.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-14772056589133840862013-06-05T17:47:23.379-07:002013-06-05T17:47:23.379-07:00Best. Comment Thread. Of the Blog. Best. Comment Thread. Of the Blog. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-20350623256603369512012-10-09T15:27:05.039-07:002012-10-09T15:27:05.039-07:00Only American feminists create the supposed ick fa...Only American feminists create the supposed ick factor. I'm over 35 and my girlfriend is 19. There's nothing wrong in that. Not for a man and not for a woman who isn't brainwashed by feminism.<br /><br />Outside the feminist US, professors have sex with their undergrad students who are over the age of consent. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-89311240793173912492012-07-17T12:32:56.538-07:002012-07-17T12:32:56.538-07:00Having read the clusterfuck that is this comment s...Having read the clusterfuck that is this comment stream, I came to a simple conclusion :<br />OMG Grad students are such deluded self-aggrandizing douchebags :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-29897352784546599172012-07-06T16:44:23.948-07:002012-07-06T16:44:23.948-07:00Agreed. I find undergrads highly annoying, immatur...Agreed. I find undergrads highly annoying, immature, and vacuous in most situations, but some days my attractive female students are the only thing compelling me to go teach.<br /><br />Disclaimer: I would never date one of my own current students, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-10315988215854039122012-06-02T12:39:50.039-07:002012-06-02T12:39:50.039-07:00Undergrads are too young to date, but they're ...Undergrads are too young to date, but they're nice eye candy, AND they help keep you young just being around them. Fresh idea, new concepts, and a pressing need to keep up. You all are way too cynical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-3004588464682362412012-05-04T01:37:54.905-07:002012-05-04T01:37:54.905-07:00Hey, I'm dwarf and I resent these comments in ...Hey, I'm dwarf and I resent these comments in a passionately emotional manner! I also have no intention of getting into Elaine's pants - although it would probably be a lot easier for me to do so (from a simple physics perspective).Angry Emotionally Unstable Drawfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-90156866471815319942012-03-13T23:03:13.508-07:002012-03-13T23:03:13.508-07:00Um, I guess I'm posting to an old comment thre...Um, I guess I'm posting to an old comment thread that got a little heated... but I wanted to point out a second injustice of being around undergraduates all the time: sometimes they have more money than you. Sometimes, depending on the school, they have a LOT more money than you. Imagine pulling up to a red light beside one of your students who is driving a new Lexus SUV, while you are in a decade-old Hyundai with a broken tail light (broken, it's worth mentioning, by a drunk undergrad who threw a beer bottle at it). Or realizing your students are wearing shoes that cost as much as your food budget for the month. It's tough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-53454398739333861012011-10-20T12:34:25.606-07:002011-10-20T12:34:25.606-07:00Loser hacks? Blow me.Loser hacks? Blow me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-22529129780718101902011-09-14T23:12:38.576-07:002011-09-14T23:12:38.576-07:00This whole blog is based on building the self-este...This whole blog is based on building the self-esteem of loser hacks who couldn't cut it in academia or got rejected from their dream graduate program. Sucks for you....LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-52193848903082224742011-04-02T18:27:38.779-07:002011-04-02T18:27:38.779-07:00okay, let's just get this straight once and fo...okay, let's just get this straight once and for all:<br /><br />1. undergrads are great to hang out with.<br />2. undergrads are great sex partners.<br />3. undergrads are great for dating and more serious relationships.<br />4. there is nothing more important or interesting to discuss, especially the actual topic of this blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-40266276304594435182011-04-02T05:11:56.830-07:002011-04-02T05:11:56.830-07:00"Would you bring one on your arm to an import..."Would you bring one on your arm to an important departmental party?"<br /><br />AN IMPORTANT DEPARTMENTAL PARTY????<br />BWWWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!<br /><br />Can't bring Suzie to my "important departmental party," she'll only show me up with her cringe-worthy 21 year old thoughts, because I value the dull opinions of my professors over being nice to someone I'm dating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-82655529088078559552011-03-31T05:06:29.467-07:002011-03-31T05:06:29.467-07:00@ 9:03. Exactly. I dated an undergrad who went i...@ 9:03. Exactly. I dated an undergrad who went into the service before going to undergrad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-72112269021829974772011-03-30T09:03:59.977-07:002011-03-30T09:03:59.977-07:00My thoughts exactly, anon @ 7:37 PM. When I was a ...My thoughts exactly, anon @ 7:37 PM. When I was a grad student, the only undergrads I ever dated were a sixth-year undergrad and an undergrad who was two years OLDER than I was...they both basically could have been grad students themselves.<br /><br />And to what anon @ 3:38 said (to get back to the point of this entry) is also very true. I was only in grad school for a few years, but I knew staying there any longer would just be bad, since I would just be getting older and older while everyone else would be getting younger and younger. It WAS depressing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-16128493321377013032011-03-30T04:49:45.813-07:002011-03-30T04:49:45.813-07:00@ 3:38, TITCR.@ 3:38, TITCR.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-62770072144100915622011-03-30T03:38:34.759-07:002011-03-30T03:38:34.759-07:00Let's return again to the point of the blog an...Let's return again to the point of the blog and the original reason itself, which essentially says:<br /><br />Here's a reason not to go to grad school: being around young, carefree folks all the time becomes increasingly uncomfortable as you advance in your program and the age disparity between you and them widens. <br /><br />The blogger is NOT telling you that it's immoral to have sex with or marry someone one measly year younger than you are. I really don't think anyone here is saying that. Nonetheless, the bulk of responses have amounted to a staunch defense of the f***ability of undergrads. It's even been suggested that any institutional regulation of staff/faculty-undergrad relations impinges upon our freedom and is anti-American (that one really made me giggle).<br /><br />So again, the blogger is saying, "Hey prospective grad students, you may be young now and not think of this, but over time being surrounded by the type of people whom you used to enjoyed partying with is going to wear on you. Growing older while your pool of students stays the same year after year is depressing, especially when you realize that they probably have better job prospects than you do." Our collective retort is "No, blogger, aging alongside young people is a plus, because we have a ready pool of sex partners. It's a great reason to go to grad school."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-84597964326125223862011-03-29T19:37:18.426-07:002011-03-29T19:37:18.426-07:00Relationships of this type can be judged on three ...Relationships of this type can be judged on three criteria - age difference, jurisdiction or lack thereof of grad student over undergrad, and seriousness of commitment.<br /><br />At one end would be a 40-year-old grad student having a brief and purely sexual fling with his own undergrad - disgusting and ought to lead to expulsion from the program. <br /><br />At the other end would be a 23-year-old English first-year grad student dating a 22-year-old Chemistry major senior in a relationship that blossoms several years afterward into marriage - I don't see anything wrong with this and such terms as "tender young flesh," "entitlement to screw," "get in my pants," etc. don't seem to apply to it at all.<br /><br />Most such relationships fall somewhere in between these two extremes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-59964069143023267532011-03-29T18:14:23.176-07:002011-03-29T18:14:23.176-07:00No, it's not just grammar. It's a creepy a...No, it's not just grammar. It's a creepy attitude. "I did girls"--you're really defending that kind of talk from someone smart enough to get into some kind of grad school? It's gross. Why it should be different? Amongst other things, power and the relative maturity of the parties involved. If you want to argue that you are only as mature as a bunch of kids whose greatest accomplishment is lying to their TA, fine with me.<br /><br />I really don't understand why so many here are so desperate to defend their right to screw young, dumb, shallow kids (at this point I'm fairly sure that Reason 51 has generated more comments than any other, and focused on the issue of entitlement to screw--sad). In any case, with the advent of that wonderful contraption, the interweb, I hear you can meet all kinds of age-appropriate folks for casual encounters (I am in a committed relationship, but people I know can be having sex with a stranger within the hour--no need to troll your English lit discussion section for some action). No insular college town is only populated by undergrads. The only reason I can think of to focus on undergrads is that they are naive, will demand nothing of you, and they are easy pickins. Would you bring one on your arm to an important departmental party?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-70014749369774191472011-03-29T16:20:45.878-07:002011-03-29T16:20:45.878-07:00Because pointing out spelling/grammar errors on th...Because pointing out spelling/grammar errors on the internet = winning.<br /><br />If people in the same age ranges were dating outside of academia, people wouldn't even bat an eye. So why should it be any different if they were students, as long as it was ethical (legal adults and no teacher/student conflict)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276812992911002375.post-58259241868155877102011-03-29T14:28:44.140-07:002011-03-29T14:28:44.140-07:00"concenting adults" (sic)
"There w..."concenting adults" (sic)<br /><br />"There were undergrad girls I was in"<br /><br />"I did girls who were older than me in grad school too. Like 31" (I "did girls"? 31 year old "girls"?)<br /><br />Really?!?<br /><br />Looks like all those undergrads you've been "dating" have rubbed off on you figuratively as well as literally. For those debating the maturity level/ick factor issues: case closed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com