Actual poll from www.phinished.org

[sabrinamari]

If being a graduate student has left you feeling like a broken down donkey pulling a cart up a hill, then to you the unseen cart must be ...

1. Your overzealous donkey whipping advisor 4

2. Your ever expanding but never completed research 16

3. Your cackling family members, all hitching a free ride 0

4. Your cackling committee members, all hitching a free ride 0

5. You pull no cart because you are in fact not a donkey 2

6. You pull a donkey, because although you are not a donkey, you know there is still one in your cart. 3

7. my underzealous (is that a word) advisor who keeps disappearing 3

8. the fear of what comes after you're phinished 9

9. The cackling egotistical academics in your field 4

10. filled with donkey droppings, because academia and the things I have to do within it are all you-know-what 2

11. filled with emotional baggage, mental furniture, and a rusty heap of shattered self-esteem 17

12. My JOB! 1

13. My whole department which never offers the courses I need 1

14. ALL OF THE ABOVE

Comments

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

But it's all OK, because as soon as you can identify your post-phd shen-pa, you can unstick yourself from it, it becomes unglued and falls apart, and you notice that the sun is shining and you get all woken up. Or something similar.

[oaktavia.livejournal.com]

seen Shrek 2?

ok the heck with the cart! dump the cart... don't need the cart, you're all done! (YAY!)

get yourself some of the Happily-Ever-After potion and turn your donkey into the sexy steed it really is!

hugs & giggles!