(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Reading Reddit or Quora posts about sad grad situations to make you feel less alone
Your committee meeting was very delayed because schedules never aligned
Your advisor refused to teach you an essential lab method/
technique
Debugging code for hours/days only to realize you forgot a semicolon (or similar)
Your professor gives no feedback on a paper during the semester, then tears it apart at the end of the course
Failing to pass a comprehensive exam
Your advisor says to change your analysis only to tell you afterward to revert to the original plan
You had to pay for your own travel, hotel, food, etc. for a conference
Your dissertation data is delayed by months because Pitt messed up a single word in the Data Use Agreement
Waiting for reimbursement after paying for food and drink for your whole journal club
You couldn't get ahold of your advisor for a ≥3 workday period
Completing a group project on Google Docs hours/minutes before deadline
Your advisor forgot you were on vacation and expected you to do something
Pitt IT takes several weeks to unzip a .csv file and make it available to you
Your advisor forgot what your project was about
Attended a department-wide reception that has no food or drink
Turning to YouTube because those videos teach better than your professors
Crying DURING a meeting with your advisor
Your advisor forgot that they asked you to do something and then questioned why you would do such an unnecessary experiment
Multiple months went by before your stipend reflected a new, increased rate
Your advisor and postdoc(s) demand you make contradictory changes to your paper
Your advisor neglects to introduce you to their colleagues at a conference
Your advisor forgot to tell you they are out of the country
Your submitted manuscript was rejected by at least two journals
Your advisor fails to give feedback on your thesis for months but demands major revisions just days before deadline
Your dissertation chair moves to a different university, forcing you to reconfigure your entire committee with only a few weeks' notice
You stayed up working really late the night before an advisor meeting
Crying AFTER a meeting with your advisor
When, at your dissertation defense, your advisor struggles to remember how long you've been a student
Belonging to a department that has no permanent chair for more than a few months
Your reimbursement for a conference gets stuck in Concur for months
Your advisor completely forgot about a meeting you had scheduled
Your advisor didn't know which classes you needed to take
