Postgraduate Students
Created | Updated Mar 26, 2002
honours degree, so rather than venure out into the real world they decide that academia is the easy option. Hence a lot of very lonely, sad people
studying useless subjects (qv. Philosophy, Astrophysics) to useless levels. And hence, the Great Over-Educated, a growing breed of mid-twentysomethings
with lots of knowledge but very little experience of real life.
Postgrads can be identified through a chilling lack of irony, a misplaced superiority complex, and (usually) silly glasses.