The "MA" stands for... well, nothing good.

I remember about this time last year, when I was sitting around waiting to hear back about graduate applications, and my friend Steve smugly told me that grad school was for chumps. I didn't believe him.

I should have believed him. Let's just put it this way:

As a graduate student, you can typically measure the level of suck in your life by the number of consecutive nights you sleep wearing pants. Because, sleeping with your pants on is never a sign of anything good.

That is all.