Rhapsodic
Today I learned that, if you’re still pounding out your thesis six days before graduation, you can write a phrase like “tripping on the carnage” and have it qualify as a legitimate theatrical critique. In your head.
And I learned that you can head out to dinner and find yourself wandering, dreamlike, into the opening strains of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”, only to investigate and find that it is being rehearsed by a handful of Harvard seniors. For fun. The Harvard seniors have been done with finals for a week and are five days from graduation. During my senior week, I was so perpetually drunk that I walked all the way to Yankee Stadium with a huge hole in the back of my pants and never even noticed. I’m just throwing that out there.
Here's what I'm learning in grad school 
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