Grad students are too poor to be stupid. I just spent the better part of the last 15 minutes standing outside because of a false positive in the fire alarm system. Technology. It never works. But as a result of this, I got some rather interesting insights into grad school life. Apparently grad students can get cheaper insurance because they do less stupid stuff. That makes total sense to me and the rest of the conversation revolved around how grad students are in general too poor to get their hands on alcohol or hallucinogenics. While the conversation was light hearted, there was some amount of truth to it all. The rest of the discussion was about typical grad student stuff: meetings, advisors, deadlines, the usual. As I move closer to starting my own graduate experience, all these stories give me some serious food for thought. I would love the cheap insurance and the freedom, but I’m still not 100% sure if I could do it for 5 years.