Enrolling into grad school sounds like a good idea in theory—with eyes full of ambition, individuals hope to expand their horizons, learn something new, and work on the competencies they already have, all of which is great. But it’s when one starts reaching those goals that the reality kicks in in all its glory, often making them re-evaluate their decision.

When said reality brings grad students to the ground, few things might seem funny—or everything does, depending on the stress levels—but memes have the power to cheer up a student, even one on the brink of quitting. Such memes, dedicated to keep people going and provide solace in the fact that they’re not facing grad school-evoked hardships alone, are often shared on the ‘Grad School Memes With Relatable Themes’ Facebook group. We have put some of their best posts on this list for you today, so scroll down to find them, and see what challenges grad students face on their day-to-day (or take a moment to unwind if you are one of them yourself).

#1 Currently

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#2 Hoping My Light Starts To Return After I Defend In 3 Weeks

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#3 Relatable

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#4 Pure Gold

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#5 I Was Definitely Not Doomscrolling When I Was Attacked This Way

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#6 Why It’s So Difficult To Write With Your Advisor

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#7 Remember: You Can Edit A Bad Paper, Not A Blank Page

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#8 Mine Is Definitely Finishing Me

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#9 I Just Wanna Enjoy The Holidays Without Thinking About It

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#10 So Glad To Be Doing It In My Dissertation

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#11 The Disappointment Is Felt

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#12 Still Cringing From A Year Ago

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#13 Under Length With Only One Point, Sounds About Right

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#14 Me Looking At My Thesis Edits

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#15 Spoiler: It Was Not

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#16 My Amazing Friend Submitted A Grant & Became A Phd Candidate This Month, So I Took Her To Get A Professional Massage Yesterday. She Got To The Part Of The Form Where It Asks Where You Feel Discomfort:

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#17 Bold Of You To Assume I Had Either Of Those Things To Begin With

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#18 This Was Once Revealed To Me In A Dream

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#19 It’s “Break It Down Yo” Not “Watch As I Break Down, Bro”

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#20 When All Else Fails, Use This Powerful Combo

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#21 This Is Too Real

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#22 Wait You Guys Get Helpful Edits? I Don’t Understand

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#23 My Issue Is That I Download Them And Then Never Read Them

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#24 Laughs/Cries In First-Year Prelims

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#25 I Wish I Had Thought Of This Years Ago

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#26 It’s Coming

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#27 No My Thesis Will Not Include 7 Journal Papers

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#28 I Feel Seen

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#29 And Her Fans Insist On Calling Her Dr. Swift

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#30 Naughtayy

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#31 Quantitative Researchers Looking At Their Quantitative Data

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#32 Dear Professor, I’m Certain You Will Hate Me Immediately, But As Per My Last Email

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#33 I Am The Maker Of My Own Problems

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#34 Why Does This Make So Much Sense

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#35 Rude

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#36 I Can’t Wait For That Glorious Day

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#37 November In Grad School Am I Right

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#38 Go To Grad School They Said It’ll Be Fun They Said

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#39 But Its Different

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#40 It’s That Time Of Year Again

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#41 Why Is This So Accurate

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#42 Facts

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#43 I Thoght This Could Fit In Here

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#44 How I’m Feeling As I Enter My Fifth Year Of The Phd

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#45 My Thoughts In Cursive

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#46 I Support This Wholeheartedly

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#47 So True

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#48 Got My Halloween Costume All Picked Out

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#49 This Seems To Check Out

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#50 It Do Be Like That

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#51 It Really Hit Home

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#52 Guilty As Charged

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#53 I’m Catman

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#54 Whenever I Have A Paper Due, I’m Suddenly Very Interested In Random And Completely Unrelated Things

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#55 Me To My Reviewers After I Received Comments For Edits And Changes To My Thesis For My Mpa Program

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#56 100 Percent Me

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#57 Need To Get A Few Of These

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#58 Me

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#59 Oh No. I Hope To One Day Cite My Own Work. Halfway There At Least

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#60 As The Only 7th Year In My Department, I Can Confirm

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#61 Who Else

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#62 Courtesy Of Llamaposting

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#63 When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Survive Off Easy Mac And Cheap Beer

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#64 Hey Brain, It Was Your Idea So Pull Your Own Weight Plz. Poor Liver Is Really Taking A Beating Cuz Of You

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#65 Facts

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#66 Find U A Partner Who Speaks To U Like This

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#67 I’m Still On Step One And My Advisor Is Trying To Convince Me To Get A Phd

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#68 It Took Me 4 Years To Finish My Master’s Thesis Bc Of This

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#69 Got Me

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#70 I Got This From A Friend So I’m Not Sure If It’s Been On This Page Before But It Cracked Me Up

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#71 Going To Watch The Bbc Pride And Prejudice For The Seventh Time

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#72 Why Does This Hurt?

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#73 And That’s On Being 3 Weeks Away From My Candidacy Exam

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#74 Everyone’s Dissertation, Apparently

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#75 The Children Have Returned To Campus And Now My Elevator Wait Times Have Skyrocketed Again

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