PhD = permanent head damage

So what is a PhD, actually?

I asked a like-minded friend and his answer was: Didn’t you know that PhD stands for permanent head damage?

Now when I listen to other friends’ accounts, I learn about all the academic blackouts they’ve experienced. Once I’m in the office, I merely have to look at their faces to realize that something weird’s happening in those brains. It goes from laborious deliberation to Eureka moments, sometimes followed by an apparent loss of focus, so that the initial ingenious idea is gone with the wind.

Constant focus, or the inveterate search for it, may lead to a vacuum, ensuing in a state of hollowness. To overcome this, PhDs will be desperate to find distraction. Coffee breaks seem appropriate. They, however, may lead to symptoms traditionally associated with addictions… And there we go again, with the mind wandering off.  

Sometimes you’ve got to be silly in order not to lose your head.