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"YIKES. Tag your school.": A Meme of Grad Student Frustration

Title (Dublin Core)

"YIKES. Tag your school.": A Meme of Grad Student Frustration

Description (Dublin Core)

This meme features four frames. The first frame shows a hand sticking out of the water, clearly drowning, with the text "Grad students with rapidly dwindling financial + professional prospects." In the next frame, a second hand appears to be reaching toward the drowning hand. This hand is labeled "Universities with multi-billion-dollar endowments." In the third frame, rather than the extended hand pulling the drowning hand to safety, it instead offers a high-five. The superimposed text over the image reads "Productivity workshops + 'We're all in this together' emails." In the final image, the extended hand has pulled back, leaving the original hand to drown.

This meme reflects the anxieties and frustrations many graduate students may feel with their universities during the crisis.
@notsoivorytower

Date (Dublin Core)

April 28, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

@notsoivorytower

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Carolyn Evans

Type (Dublin Core)

Image

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Instagram

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--Universities
English Social Media (including Memes)

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

graduate student
endowment
university
support
drowning
frustration

Collection (Dublin Core)

College COVID Stories

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

My First TikTok Dance

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/29/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/20/2020
11/19/2021

Accrual Method (Dublin Core)

2721

Original Format (Omeka Classic)

Meme

Item sets

Covid 19

New Tags

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