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bhickey on Jan 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why the Fuck?

Being a grad student and wanting to be a professor is like being 6'2" and wanting to play in the NBA.

theorique on Jan 22, 2013 [–]

Presumably some grad students are the equivalent Shaq or Kevin Garnett, though.

After all, professors are all drawn from the ranks of former graduate students who finished their degrees...

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