Research Memes

The brutal honesty of children strikes again! This PhD student's existential crisis gets perfectly summarized by their kid who thought all that "studying" was just... recreational despair? The tweet brilliantly captures what grad school feels like to outsiders versus insiders. That child unknowingly delivered the most accurate description of doctoral studies ever recorded in human history - "reading books and crying." No wonder so many academics have this printed on their office doors! Scientific precision at its finest.

The scientific community's collective trauma captured in one slide. Notice how Excel tops the list despite being the data visualization equivalent of performing surgery with a butter knife. Meanwhile, researchers worldwide are nodding in painful recognition at "Micosoft" Excel's typo—because nothing says "academic publishing" like discovering a spelling error right after submission. The real comedy here is that this list stops at 7 items while promising 10. Just like when your advisor promises funding for your entire PhD but mysteriously disappears after year two. Every grad student knows that feeling of staring at Excel's default rainbow color scheme wondering where their scientific career went wrong.