After an especially slow section, Comparative Literature student Maria Clinch 23’ realized that her grad TA is just an older, sadder student. “It hit me when I saw my TA get out of her 1999 Toyota Camry. I was like, wow, that’s a 27-year-old who’s still in school, the same school I’m going to. They’re another version of me, but me if I stayed here for eight years and still lived like a junior in college,” claimed Maria Clinch as her grad TA outlined an extremely nuanced interpretation of a text from 1410. “They have to pay to learn about stuff they’ll never get a real job with. A person has to be pretty passionate about a subject if they go to grad school to study it, so I guess it’s alright. They’re doing what they love! But, still. Yikes.” At press time, Clinch’s grad TA was trying to avoid her in CVS.

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