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Tips for First Year Grad Students - School Supplies Checklist (Summer 2005)
 
Tips for First Year Grad Students - School Supplies Checklist (Summer 2005)
17th Graders aFlip-flops and shampoo bucket for Humanities Building showers aEleven quarts of Unbridled Enthusiasm aPostmodernism for Dummies aTen Lords A’Leaping aParental permission slip to watch bootlegged sex film of Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, and to participate in morbidly boring discussion afterwards rDo not bring: posters of Scarface or Bob Marley, or anything else purchased at the Ring Road flea market 18th Graders aNew sense of freedom, crippling loneliness after summer break-up with college S.O. aExpensive leather- or soy-bound notebook in which to write down study resolutions you will never, ever keep aTwenty non-threatening green grading pens a$38.95 theory books to resell in 24th grade for $4.00 19th Graders aHardtack, Flour, and Salt-Meats aAll of your emotions rolled into one confusing little ball aEmbarrassing rolling backpack for carting exam books 20th-29th Graders aHollow Tooth aCyanide Pill