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Instance of the “Is this a pigeon? meme. It comprises five elements, two visual, and three textual. The visual elements are (1) the point-of-view character and (2) what is clearly a butterfly (which the PoV character is enthusiastically gesturing towards). The text elements are (1) a label for the point-of-view character or entity, in this instance: “me, a student”, (2) a text label for the butterfly element, specifying what it actually is — in this case, “making memes” — and the third element is text towards the bottom of the image, which asks “Is this a … [fill in the blank]?”. Whatever fills in the blank should be humorously incongruous with whatever the butterfly element is labelled as. In this instance, I’ve labelled it “quote-unquote learning law”. Me, a student, making memes. Is this quote-unquote learning law?
July 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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XKCD comic in the form of a timeline, black on a white background, entitled “U.S. PhD Program Timeline”. Running vertically along the leftmost side is a marked line (timeline, but without any actual numbers). On the right half of the image is a graphical representation of the amount of coursework cf the amount of research over time (the first half is mostly coursework and the second half is mostly research). The first/topmost point on the timeline is labelled “enrolment”. The following points below that are marked “meet with advisor”, “research proposal”, “qualifying exams”, “propose dissertation”, “research and write dissertation”, “submit dissertation”, and “defend dissertation”. “Submit and defend” dissertation have been scribbled out with red pen, and an alternate pathway with an arrow has been drawn diverging off to the right. The first new point (also in red pen) says: “Get grabbed off the sidewalk outside your home by masked government agents”. The next point says “Be whisked out of the state before a judge has time to intervene”. The final point below this is 4 question marks in a row.
April 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM