More Grad School Demotivators

Apparently I was the only one to submit demotivators to the contest. ha. Well, at least appropriate ones, as two submitted were apparently NSFW in one manner or another. No big deal, except the three previously noted were displayed during a grad student meeting. Thankfully, they didn't say who submitted each. The graduation one got a few chuckles, there was silence during the collaboration one (expected, though someone commented that people were busy reading it...doubtful) and there were plenty of laughs during the accuracy one, which was agreed to be "good."

In the week following that meeting, a few others have been thought up, in collaboration with others. First, several of us were discussing the collaboration one. I noted that I wanted to point to competing with the guy in the back of the image. We came up with this improved tagline:


While looking at pictures I had selected as potential demotivators, another student came up with the tagline for this one. I can only claim taking the picture, which we liked as it can be suggested that grad students are like rats, trapped with ideas (lit bulb) being sucked out of our brains by the administration (connections to head). Kinda funny:


Recently there was a hiliarious SNL music video. Using our juvenile humor, another student and I batted around potential demotivator taglines after he did a screen grab from the video. This demotivator is funny only if you've seen the clip....which made it too-NSFW for the competition. Oh well...we had fun making it.


Finally, when noting someone using wordle on their thesis (can't recall location), I got the idea that it would be appropriate for something like a qualifier exam. With all kinds of things flying through your head during a test, the different sizes and angles of a wordle creation were appealing. So, I grabbed text from my department's website about the qualifying exam and popped it into wordle.net. The first output is a simple one with just the text. I like the second one better, adding in the equations and drawings in the background with a little photoshopping. In the lower right hand corner is an image I found of a spanish inquisition torture...appropriate in a tongue-in-cheek way.



So, now I've got a bunch of submissions. ha...made for an interesting side thing to try and work on creativity with words.