Every once in a while, you’ll run across an academic who doesn’t drink coffee. These people are not to be trusted. They're sick and unnatural.
Now, I’m not one of those people who are always jacked up on caffeine or anything. I can actually go a few days without coffee and not even get headaches. (I’m not going to claim that I’m not a grouchy asshole about it, when I have to go without. But I’m pretty sure the addiction isn’t physiological.) I really think I’ve got the coffee thing under control.
And, hell. Around here grad students pop ADD meds like it’s their job. A surprising number of them even have legitimate prescriptions for the stuff. So I refuse to feel guilty about a little coffee. Clean living is for chumps. Yeah, sure. The dissertation isn’t exactly chemical-free. If academia had an anti-doping agency I’d be disqualified for sure. At the very least, there’d be an asterisk after the “PhD” at the end of my name. Whatev.
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I completely agree (as would my lovely significant other) about coffee as fuel (and fodder) for dissertation writing. And life. And at least it is not crack. Crack is definitely marginally worse. As are ADD drugs. Unless you truely need them.
Ein Philosph ist eine Maschine, die die Ideen aus der Kaffee macht.
Anyone who works with words and does not drink coffee is not to be trusted.
Agreed, David. What the hell is wrong with those people?
Yeeaah boy! I'm entering my first year at a mid-ranked program and I've never had to drink coffee. Of course, that's likely going to change very, very soon.
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