https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Nancygo&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T02:18:01ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=59:_Graduation&diff=11884659: Graduation2016-04-27T09:59:19Z<p>Nancygo: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 59<br />
| date = February 3, 2006<br />
| title = Graduation<br />
| image = graduation.jpg<br />
| titletext = Opening dialogue by Scott<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
[[Megan]] and a [[Miss Lenhart|young blonde]] discuss their plans after the college. The blonde doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, so she is going to go to {{w|Graduate school|grad school}}. Graduate school is the next level of education after {{w|undergraduate education|undergraduate work}}, where students pursue a master's or doctoral degrees. There are also situations when students after going to grad schools are not able to finish a thesis and in this case do not get a degree even though they passed all exams and courses. Here come ABD term, which means all but dissertation "degree". Naturally, there might be hundred of reasons why one cannot obtain master's degree and decided on some help from [http://essaydune.com college essay writing service].<br />
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Megan, on the other hand, has decided to become a lighthouse operator, a path that has become increasingly less traveled. Fewer people need lighthouses. Before GPS technology, lighthouses were invaluable markers of where the sea ended and where land began. Megan likes the idea of being the maid in the highest tower. Except where most fairy tales portray the {{w|Rapunzel|maid in the tower}} as helpless, waiting to be rescued, operating a lighthouse is far from helpless. It can be one of the most needed jobs for sea-farers to find their way safely back home.<br />
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Other comics with a similar theme about finding or taking unexplored paths, instead of fitting into the mold, includes [[137: Dreams]] and [[267: Choices: Part 4]].<br />
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[[Scott]] appears to be a friend of [[Randall Munroe]]. Comics 57 through 59 all have the title text ''[[:Category:Opening dialogue by Scott|Opening dialogue by Scott]]'', forming a sort of informal mini-series inspired by him. They are:<br />
*[[57: Wait For Me]]<br />
*[[58: Why Do You Love Me?]]<br />
*[[59: Graduation]]<br />
As there already was a comic released on Monday that week, the first of these three were released already on Tuesday, then Wednesday and Friday.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Megan and Blonde are talking.]<br />
:Blonde (or Ms. Lenhart): What do you want to do when you graduate?<br />
:Megan: I want to become a lighthouse operator.<br />
:Blonde: Oh?<br />
:Megan: Yeah.<br />
:[Cut to scene of lighthouse with text overlaid.]<br />
:Megan: Lighthouses are built on interesting pieces of coast, so I'll have an interesting place to walk and swim, and great views of all kinds of weather. I'd feel good about myself and my work every single day.<br />
:[Cut back to the two girls.]<br />
:Megan: I'd get to be the girl in the tower, only I'd be the one rescuing people.<br />
:Megan: Why, what do you want to do?<br />
:Blonde: I'm going to grad school. I don't really know why.<br />
:Megan: Wanna come hang in my lighthouse over breaks?<br />
:Blonde: ...yeah.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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