Postcard Academia

“Postcard Academia” are little slices of academic life and academia memes that fit onto a 4×6 inch postcard – ideal for printing out and posting on your cubicle wall, but easy to stash away and rotate.

The 12 Labors of the Acadmic: You shouldn't need to be superhuman to work at a university. Seriously, Herakles was made a god after his 12 labors!

In Reddit’s academic communities (like r/AskAcademia and r/GradSchool), the “Twelve Labors of Academia” refers to the impossible, often exploitative hurdles an academic faces to survive. These represent a satirical but painfully accurate modernization of Heracles’ Labors, detailing the grind of modern research, teaching, and professional survival. Here’s my take on the Twelve Labors…

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Graphic Bar Diagrams @John Atkinson, Wrong Hands
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Sarcasm is an art. If it were a science, I'd have my Ph.D.
Flowchart on whether or not you should ask a question at the faculty meeting. The answer will always be NO.
Graphic depicting the amount ot tears shed throughout your school career.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect applied to Confidence and Knowledge.
In this time of term papers I wanted to draw my patron deity, Bullshitticus, god of students and general last minute fudgery, sitting upon his Golden Futon, attended by the muses Caffeina and Thesaurae, whose powers of artificial energy and pretentious vocabulary can be invoked in case of the all-nighter. I like to think he's Dionysus's second cousin or something.
The Four Stages of the 9AM Lecture - Awake, Drowsy, TIred, Asleep.
Pie charts of what group projects are supposed to teach vs what they actually taught
I sued to tell people I was a teacher. Now I prefer the title "Data Collection and Management Specialist." It's more more accurate.

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