Buzz·Posted on Jun 26, 201427 Struggles Every Grad Student Knows To Be TrueOops, just called something "problematic" again.by Katie HeaneyBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. You still get terror flashbacks to these. View this photo on Instagram 2. The amount of materials you need open for any one project or paper. View this photo on Instagram 3. You need to buy a small library for every semester. View this photo on Instagram 4. On the plus side, stacking books is...sort of a skill? View this photo on Instagram 5. Buying used books and discovering the owners ahead of you had...interesting ideas about how to use highlighters. View this photo on Instagram 6. Your idea of a "fun purchase" is a new pack of sticky notes. View this photo on Instagram 7. You identify deeply with this late-night grocery run. View this photo on Instagram 8. And this one. View this photo on Instagram 9. The adjustment period of learning each new professor's uniquely indecipherable note-writing style. View this photo on Instagram 10. Your gradual, almost imperceptible adoption of academese. View this photo on Instagram 11. You, in the library, on the most beautiful day of the year. View this photo on Instagram 12. You have printed out probably 17–20 trees at this point. View this photo on Instagram 13. You dread nothing more than hearing the words "power" and "point" in the same sentence. View this photo on Instagram 14. You've developed a sliding scale for what "messy" means. View this photo on Instagram 15. You've become a MASTER of the one-page cheat sheet. View this photo on Instagram 16. You have become a very specific kind of hoarder. View this photo on Instagram 17. You don't recognize the difference between weekdays and weekend days. View this photo on Instagram 18. You know that mail is never a good thing. View this photo on Instagram 19. You will do WHATEVER. IT. TAKES. To stay awake. View this photo on Instagram 20. You've developed a very insular, very delirious sense of humor. View this photo on Instagram 21. Your meals are a means to survival ONLY. View this photo on Instagram 22. Your walls look like a serial killer's. IT'S FINE. View this photo on Instagram 23. What the space next to your sink constantly looks like. View this photo on Instagram 24. You loooooooooove pop culture references. Love 'em. View this photo on Instagram 25. You've tried the "I'll just go to bed now, at 8 p.m., and finish this work at 2 a.m." thing. View this photo on Instagram 26. There is really only one word that matters to you anymore. View this photo on Instagram 27. Oh, and this one. View this photo on Instagram