MP: Rand-dom Dawn (pbem)

[djo]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

(by that time I will hopefully have finished my thesis and be a real person again!).

I think you misunderstand the concept of "thesis". Once you finish, you will never be a real person again. Grad school is designed to rip await your normalcy, shred by shred, until the last traces are bound in your thesis and shelved, never to be seen again.