You Know You're a Graduate Student When...

A classmate shared this hilarious list with me. I can totally identify with some of these things. The starred items are partcularly applicable.......
For those of you who don't know, I'm studying Music History and Literature.

You know you're a grad student when…
1.The concept of free time scares you.
2.Professors don't really care when you turn in work anymore.
3.You consider caffeine to be a major food group.*
4.Saturday nights spent studying no longer seem weird.*
5.You can read course books and cook at the same time.
6.You rate coffee shops by the availability of outlets for your laptop.
7.Everything reminds you of something in your discipline.*
8.You find yourself explaining to children that you are in "20th grade."
9.You have ever spent more than $50 on photocopying while researching a single paper.
10.You regard ibuprofen as a vitamin.*
11.You look forward to taking some time off to do laundry.
12.You appreciate the fact that you get to choose which twenty hours out of the day you have to work.
13.You find the bibliographies more interesting than the actual text.
14.You have given up trying to keep your books organized and are now just trying to keep them all in the same general area.*
15.You wonder if APA style allows you to cite talking to yourself as a "personal communication."
16.You have ever discussed academic matters at a sporting event.
17.You start referring to stories like "Snow White et al."
18.You consider all papers to be a work in progress.
19.You are constantly looking for a thesis in novels.
20.You hope it snows during spring break so you can get more studying in.

And that's graduate school in a nutshell...welcome to life as I know it!