Quiz: What PhD Life is Really Like
In the following text, which of the elements in boldface are Objects of a Preposition.
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Undergrads
Contrary to popular opinion, PhD students don't dislike Undergrads, we're just jealous of them. Undergrads have it easy and they don't even know it.
At that age you don't mind living in a tiny single bedroom and sharing a kitchen with 7 other people so long as it's within walking distance to class and the student union. You don't mind living off 9p noodles, cereal and toast. You can sleep during the day between classes, be told exactly what to study to pass the module, submit an essay and never see it again, and you have a whole summer each year in which to relax and enjoy yourself.
PhD students don't have such luxuries.
We're too accustomed to the finer things in life: expensive complicated cocktails, antipasti and fresh flowers every weekend. We also read journal papers in bed to catch up with reading, which throws a downer on any romantic relationship, and we stress out over how to afford a suitable outfit for a conference on a measly PhD stipend.
If you're an undergrad and you see a PhD student tutting at you in the library for browsing Asos rather than working, please know we don't hate you, we're just green with envy that our lives are no longer like that. I'm sure you can empathise. By the time you end up doing a PhD, you'll feel the same, I promise.
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