>>13801747>What are some horror stories you've heard about in graduate school?One guy went crazy during his qualifying exams. He stood up and declared that he was a Byzantine general. Got committed to a mental hospital.
One guy just stopped showing up one day, nobody realized for a couple weeks. Turned out he was a Chinese spy and had been arrested.
The main library is sinking a few inches every year into the ground. Why? The architect forgot to take into account the weight of all the books.
One graduate student stole his adviser’s wife. He even managed to graduate without changing adviser.
One prof had affairs with multiple female grad students. It’s weird because he’s not good looking or anything.
Someone killed himself by hanging in the basement about a decade back. I don’t believe in ghosts but I get a strange chill there at night.
I’m pretty sure I got roofied at a faculty wide christmas party. Can’t complain about who I woke up next to though.
One guy was a student for 9 years before finally handing in his thesis. The online checker system found it was 100% plagiarism.
One project my professor put me on for a couple years turned out to not work/be false. Easily 1000 hours down the drain. We only figured that out after it was published though, so it is still increasing my h-score.
One time someone put a camera inside the women’s toilet. I still don’t understand why, as there were no women in the department at the time.
