Jake Wright: When I started grad school, my wife and I bought a couch financed by what we later found out was a payday lender. They literally had repoed couches in their lobby when we'd go to make a payment. When I got my job post-Ph.D., we'd hit the big time and bought an IKEA couch. Dolla dolla, y'all.

i think a pretty fun joke would be for every astronomy professor in the world to cash out their savings accounts on the same day and then just like hide for three weeks.

all my friends in academia know the real joke here is professors having money in a savings account

When I got my first professor job I had to sign up for a new credit card before I could buy furniture that didn’t fold into a canvas bag

When I started grad school, my wife and I bought a couch financed by what we later found out was a payday lender. They literally had repoed couches in their lobby when we'd go to make a payment. When I got my job post-Ph.D., we'd hit the big time and bought an IKEA couch. Dolla dolla, y'all.

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