Grad Hacker

When you’re in school of any kind, grad school, college, high school, what have you, you interact with or simply overhear a lot of people. They say things. You say things. This is life. But sometimes things that are said are so precious that they should be remembered and posted on a blog somewhere, like here.

“Grad school is like a mullet. Business in front, party in the back.”

In discussing grad school and how our “research is going” with a friend of mine, he uttered the above quote. I laughed really hard. Then I thought about it and realized that the philosophy behind it isn’t too bad. What he meant was simply that you gotta take care of your business when it’s time to take care of business. Do your work. Then, to maintain sanity and not get into “my life sucks” lamenting mode that doesn’t benefit anyone, you just gotta have some fun. In other words, have balance, a idea that has been taught by parents and teachers and everyone else for ages, but never quite so eloquently put.