Made out of people

I may be in the wrong field

On their way back inside, I ask one of them, a blonde in a turquoise miniskirt and now, of course, a hard-earned GGW [Girls Gone Wild] hat, what they do when they are not on spring break. "We're grad students," she says, with only a slight slur. "It's sad. We'll have Ph.D.s in three years."

In what, I ask.

"Anthropology."

Dispatches From Girls Gone Wild

My PhD has never been like that.