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 Pure Gold

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#4 Relatable

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

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

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

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

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#9 Mine Is Definitely Finishing Me

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#10 The Disappointment Is Felt

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

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#12 Spoiler: It Was Not

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

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#14 So Glad To Be Doing It In My Dissertation

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#15 Still Cringing From A Year Ago

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#16 When All Else Fails, Use This Powerful Combo

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#17 Me Looking At My Thesis Edits

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#18 Laughs/Cries In First-Year Prelims

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#19 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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#20 No My Thesis Will Not Include 7 Journal Papers

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#21 I Feel Seen

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

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#23 Naughtayy

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#24 Quantitative Researchers Looking At Their Quantitative Data

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#25 Why Does This Make So Much Sense

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#26 Rude

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#27 It's "Break It Down Yo" Not "Watch As I Break Down, Bro"

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#28 I Am The Maker Of My Own Problems

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#29 Wait You Guys Get Helpful Edits? I Don't Understand

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#30 Facts

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#31 Why Is This So Accurate

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#32 I Thoght This Could Fit In Here

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#33 It's That Time Of Year Again

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#34 This Is Too Real

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#35 I Can't Wait For That Glorious Day

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#36 November In Grad School Am I Right

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#37 This Was Once Revealed To Me In A Dream

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#38 This Seems To Check Out

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#39 Me

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#40 Got Me

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#41 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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#42 My Thoughts In Cursive

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

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#44 I Support This Wholeheartedly

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#45 So True

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

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#47 It Do Be Like That

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#48 Guilty As Charged

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

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

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

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#52 100 Percent Me

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#53 Need To Get A Few Of These

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

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#55 Who Else

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#56 I’m Catman

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#57 It Really Hit Home

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#58 Facts

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#59 But Its Different

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#60 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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#61 Go To Grad School They Said It'll Be Fun They Said

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

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

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

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#65 Courtesy Of Llamaposting

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

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#67 It’s Coming

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#68 I Wish I Had Thought Of This Years Ago

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#69 Got My Halloween Costume All Picked Out

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

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#71 It Took Me 4 Years To Finish My Master's Thesis Bc Of This

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

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#73 Everyone's Dissertation, Apparently

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#74 Why Does This Hurt?

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

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