Grad students are often the targets of jokes and these jokes often come from grad students themselves.  Some of these jokes have been put into images so that you can enjoy some grad student humor whether you live the grad student lifestyle or not.  Here are 7 funny images about grad students.

The Grad School Test

This image depicts a test that is meant to tell you if you should go to grad school.  It pokes fun at how grad school makes you do whatever a professor wants and how it helps you to avoid starting life in the real world as long as possible.  It’s funny and more than a little true.

A Grad Student’s Map Of The Campus

This image makes a joke out of how a grad student’s life seems to be nothing but sleep and schoolwork.  It shows that the only two locations on a grad student’s map of the campus are the dorms the student sleeps in and the lab the student does work in.  When asked to give directions to any other building a grad student can only respond that they have only spent several years at the school so they haven’t seen anything else.

Grad School Makes You Dumber

This humorous image talks about how as you learn more in grad school you start to realize just how much you don’t know.  You realize that many things that you believed before were not right and that the most esteemed experts in your field have very defined limits to their knowledge as well.  It shows how grad school makes you smart enough to realize that in the grand scheme of things you don’t know much at all.  It’s just that it takes being a grad student to realize this.

Good Grad Student

This is actually an image of a large framed print.  It jokes about how the majority of being a grad student these days is just not allowing yourself to be distracted by the internet so that you can focus on your studies and your research.  This is one of those jokes that hold more than a kernel of truth at their center.

Grad Students And Life Choices

This is another image of a large framed print.  It features a quote that explains how grad students are not bad people at heart but that they are people who have made some terrible life choices.  Surely, anyone who embarks down the path of being a grad student questions that decision at least once or twice, if not on a daily basis, so this image is perfect.

The World Cup Vs The PhD

This clever image tells you the difference between the World Cup and the PhD.  It is smartly done and shows you that these two things have more in common than you might have thought.

Why Are We Doing This?

This final image is a cartoon strip.  Two grad students are having a discussion about why they are doing this when they realize that they aren’t talking about the same thing.  It’s funny and revealing.

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