Showing posts with label collective nouns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collective nouns. Show all posts

1.29.2007

The Collective

Though usually given to solitary behavior, members of the species Studentum Graduatis are occasionally known to travel in groups. While other animals have been given appropriate collective noun designations, the "graduate student" has none. Therefore, in the interest of science, I am soliciting recommendations now.

This experiment in taxonomy began, as one would expect, amongst my own --insert collective noun here-- of peers. Here are a few of the suggestions:
  • An Insecurity of Graduate Students
  • A Daze of Graduate Students
  • A Tower of Graduate Students
  • A Sulk of Graduate Students
  • A Gloom of Graduate Students
  • A Text of Graduate Students
I favor "Tower" and "Insecurity," but I think we can do better. The winner will receive mention in an as-of-yet unwritten academic masterwork.