Ah, Mike Slackenerny. I think everyone at some point in grad school meets this character archetype: the grizzled old student that's been there longer than anyone can remember. He's been in grad school so long, he's seen it all.
Mike is based on several people I met my first year in grad school, two of whom were named Mike, another of whom's last name was McInerney. One of these people had a goatee, another liked to speak backwards like Yoda when dispensing grad wisdom and another was a burned out math genius that scalped sports tickets as a side business.
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