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About: This bingo card dives deep into the chaotic and often absurd realities of academic life, especially for graduate students and researchers. Each square captures a painfully relatable moment from late-night emails to existential crises, making it perfect for lightening the mood at academic conferences, grad student socials, or lab group meetings. It’s a humorous way to bond over shared struggles and laugh at the wild ride that is academia.
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- The first player to finish a horizontal, vertical, or a diagonal line of marked items shouts "Bingo!" and wins the game.
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This PhD (Miss)Fortune Bingo Cards Game contains following Words or Phrases: 24h awake, Forgot to eat, "Quick meeting" lasted 2 hours, Reviewer 2 destroyed you, Rewrote introduction for the 9th time, Crying in bathroom, Impostor syndrome episode, Worked during vacation, Used ChatGPT to fix wording, Citation formatting consumed your soul, Accidentally worked 12h straight, "Should only take one afternoon", Conference anxiety, Slides finished 5 minutes before talk, Email sent at 3:47am, Read papers without absorbing anything, Wrote paragraph → deleted paragraph, Random existential crisis, TA work exploded unexpectedly, Excel destroyed formatting, Last-minute deadline extension saved you, Supervisor disappeared for weeks, Doing research while sick, Endless "small comments", Paper rejected without review, Read own paper and found typo after submission, Had dream about thesis, "This figure looked better yesterday", Stolen authorship, Supervisor forgot your meeting, Ethics approval delayed for months, Funding uncertainty panic, Corrupted dataset, Burnout but still working, Forced unpaid work, Colleague took credit publicly, Reviewer clearly did not read paper, Supervisor added impossible deadline, Wrote paper in one night, Crying during meeting, Printed poster with typo in title, Accidentally replied-all, Computer crashed during submission, Authorship dispute, Asked to mentor others while drowning, Got "voluntold" into organizing event, Supervisor contradicts previous feedback, Collaborator vanished before deadline, Reviewer requests completely new paper, "This should be easy" from someone who never did it, Committee meeting ruined entire month, Data collection failed, Scholarship/payment delayed, Accidentally deleted important file, Presented while feverish, Visa/residency stress during PhD, Had to explain your research to relatives again, Supervisor left academia mid-PhD, Entire project became obsolete, Lost 6+ months of work, Funding got cut, Lab closed/restructured, Major paper rejected after years, Toxic supervisor meltdown, Full mental breakdown, Relationship ended because of PhD, Burnout severe enough to stop functioning, Hospitalized during deadline season, Public humiliation in conference Q&A, Supervisor forgot your existence, Committee member hates your methodology, Paper accepted… to predatory journal by mistake, Data proven unusable, "We lost your paperwork", Had to restart project from scratch, Defense delayed indefinitely, Contract expired before finishing, Worked all night then presentation canceled, Reviewer requests impossible experiment, Supervisor demanded citations to themselves, Months waiting for one email, Forced authorship addition, Conference reimbursement denied after trip, Multiple simultaneous deadlines, Cried in front of supervisor, Thesis corrupted before submission, Lost passion for your field entirely, Meeting scheduled on your birthday, Supervisor read nothing before defense, Mental breakdown in public, Reviewer cites own paper 40 times, Forgot to unmute during online presentation, Sent wrong manuscript version, Family thinks PhD is "just studying", Accepted abuse because funding depended on it, Panic attack from email notification sound, Stockholm syndrome with academia, "Can you finish this by tomorrow?", Your side project became your actual thesis, Realized undergrads are happier than you, Coffee no longer works, Cannot enjoy hobbies without guilt, Academic Twitter discourse ruined your day, You became the lab tech, TA, admin, therapist, and IT support, "After minor revisions" → 6 more months, Started talking to yourself while coding, Defense outfit chosen during emotional collapse, "We are like a family here".