Lego Grad Student

[Lego Grad Student]

Remaining silent through an entire seminar, the grad student sees the only other quiet individual forsake him.

[Lego Grad Student]

Leading undergrads in a discussion about readings that he barely managed to skim, the grad student flagrantly abuses the Socratic method.

[Lego Grad Student]

Depositing books due at the library, the grad student takes a humiliating whirlwind tour of everything his past self had planned to read.

[Lego Grad Student]

Approaching the end of seminar, the grad student bitterly accepts that they will not discuss the one reading that he understood.

[Lego Grad Student]

Rereading his conference paper on the plane, the grad student is unsure whether the smell of feces is from his work or the nearby lavatory.

[Lego Grad Student]

Wondering why nobody else is in the reading room, the grad student glumly realizes that it is a late Saturday night.

[Lego Grad Student]

Trying to grade sixty papers, read 800 pages, write three proposals, and reply to 50 e-mails in four days, the grad student simply cannot.

[Lego Grad Student]

Seeing some colleagues head to an invite-only reading group, the grad student needs no book to know he is unwanted.

[Lego Grad Student]

Having spent the whole weekend coming up with one remotely useful comment, the grad student deflates as a classmate makes the point first.

[Lego Grad Student]

Fearing that he will be cold-called, the grad student glares at the professor in an audacious game of reverse psychology.