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The Nameless Grad Student (a.k.a., The Nameless Hero) – a graduate student in engineering, this bespectacled protagonist has procrastinated through the entire strip without receiving a name. He looks similar to comic strip author, Jorge Cham [ 3 ] and is modelled after him [ 4 ] (at one point, the younger sister of the character, Dee, remarks ...
[1] It was established in 1956 as a joke by Les Waas [2] who eventually registered it as a business in Philadelphia in 1966. [3] Waas remained the organization's president until at least 2011. [ 2 ] Waas also worked in advertising, where he wrote the Mister Softee jingle played by its ice cream trucks as well as more than 970 other jingles.
Procrastination is the act of unnecessarily delaying or postponing something despite knowing that there could be negative consequences for doing so. It is a common human experience involving delays in everyday chores or even putting off tasks such as attending an appointment, submitting a job report or academic assignment, or broaching a stressful issue with a partner.
An example of the phrase as a sundial motto in Redu, Belgium.. Tempus fugit is typically employed as an admonition against sloth and procrastination (cf. carpe diem) rather than an argument for licentiousness (cf. "gather ye rosebuds while ye may"); the English form is often merely descriptive: "time flies like the wind", "time flies when you're having fun".
Student syndrome refers to planned procrastination, when a student will begin to substantially apply themselves to an assignment or task at the last moment before its deadline. [1] For a person experiencing student syndrome, they only begin to make significant progress when there is a sense of urgency that causes the person to put the proper ...
These summer jokes are dumb, but you have to admit, they're also pretty funny, too. So, get ready for a boatload of funny puns , short gags and enough jokes to shell-abrate your way through the ...
A113 and its variants are an inside joke and Easter egg in media developed by alumni of California Institute of the Arts, referring to the classroom used by graphic design and character animation students. [not verified in body]
The University of Portsmouth had a joke syllabus for underwater basket weaving on the Technology faculty pages, [19] and another joke syllabus proposal was posted by a University of Central Arkansas student magazine. [20] US punk band NOFX referred to an underwater basket weaving course in their song "Anarchy Camp". [21]