What makes someone a good grad student

14. I admit it, damn it. I voted for Nader. And you know what: I’d do it again. You know why? Because I vote as an exercise in absurdity, not to elect any particular person.

Even though I’ve only been to one grad school party at one grad school thus far, I consider myself both able and qualified to judge what the true form of a graduate student is like. Enjoy:

• Facial hair in either of the following styles:
  • Neat, trimmed, yet odd
  • Hobo
• Crazy beliefs and combinations of incompatible beliefs in either of the following styles:
  • Religious
  • Non-religious
• Wild claims
• A high tolerance for alcohol
• Trivial knowledge and knowledge of trivia
• Competitiveness
• Knowledge of stuff you can’t even comprehend
• Wild claims of knowing stuff beyond stuff you can’t even comprehend

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