‘Finals week or my final week?’: 24 Studying Memes

Being a student is not always fun.  Studying is hard, and whoever says it isn’t is lying. Getting up in the morning to go to a million lectures about topics that sometimes make zero sense to you, or always being full of pending work that seems to be always multiplying itself, is not easy. Of …
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22 Studying Memes for Students Trying to Convince Themselves They’re Happy Going Back to School

It brings me no pleasure to report that nobody can be a student without studying. Yes, it may be true that plenty of people try, but a lot of those people also do not end up making it to graduation. Just because it is easier than ever to let a computer do your assignments for …
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‘Can I go home now?’: 23 Student Memes Reporting for Back-to-School Duty Against Their Will

Summer brain is officially being forced back into academic mode. Some people like the back-to-school season, and others hate it. I’m more in between. When I was a student, I was always excited to go back to class. I’ve always been a good student, but besides that, I’ve always liked the school vibes: being with …
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‘Don’t lose your streak!’: 20 Duolingo memes for learning languages and escaping notifications

Learning a new language can be an adventure… Especially if the green owl doesn’t let you go. Many of us have had that language-learning bug bite us at some point in our lives. Perhaps we read that learning a new language is good for our brains, or maybe we have family and friends living abroad, …
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College student is forced to do group project alone without help from partners, gets rewarded by professor when he discovers who did all the work: ‘I got an A, and strangely, they stopped talking to me’

Have you ever taken part in a group project in which everybody did an equal share of the work? If you have, well then, congratulations, you are truly one in a million. Most of us, the unlucky regular folks, usually find ourselves doing all the work for people we barely know, just because we want …
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Roommate turns living room into a paid study space, refuses to share the money she made with her roommate: ‘I’d become a guest in my own apartment.’

Was she wrong for telling the landlord that her roommate is running a business out of the apartment? If you have roommates, it’s very important to have a frank conversation about your guest policy up front. If you don’t, it can lead to months of resentment and bitterness, making the living situation miserable.  Some people …
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22 Student Memes That Totally Understand Your Study Plan: Open Laptop, Get Snack, Repeat

Your study plan is technically a plan, it just happens to include snacks, vibes, and a little bit of chaos. There is a very specific kind of confidence that hits when you open your laptop and tell yourself this is it, this is the study session that changes everything. Notes will be taken, concepts will …
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School district employee criticizes teacher for calling her 2nd grade students ‘kids’: ‘Are you teaching kids, or are you teaching scholars?’

Gimme a break. If you tell a child that he’s a scholar enough times, will that actually make him do his homework on time? I’m not an expert on pedagogy, but I’d bet that telling kids that they’re genius academics all the time does very little to motivate them to be good students. If anything, …
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16-year-old celebrates her passing grade with a boy in her class, enrages her 17-year-old boyfriend who gets straight As: ‘He’s never happy for me.’

She needs to dump this boyfriend because, clearly, he isn’t happy for her when she succeeds. He’s too self-centered to realize that other people have different goals from his.

25 Comforting College Memes For The Students Who Are Always One Step Behind

We’ve all been there: In desperate need of a private secretary to inform us of paper deadlines, ensure we are gracefully awoken for our 8 a.m.s, to place our textbooks gently under our pillows at night, and pray that some sliver of knowledge enters our brains.  Some of us are lucky enough to have those …
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