<p>So, for guys, how can one learn to dress like a graduate student? They seem to have a different sense of style. I look old for my age so I could pass of as someone 25. I just want to get into the law library during finals/midterms but they can always sense that I am an undergrad…Then I get kicked out. Where do I start?</p>
<p>ROFL</p>
<p>in for funny answers</p>
<p>How to look like a graduate student: </p>
<p>1) starve yourself. Minimum of two days in advance. When you do eat, make sure it’s only tasteless cardboard-like material masquerading as “cereal” or “macaroni.”
2) Don’t sleep. You’ll also need to start this a couple days in advance. Wait until your eyes get that grey, undead look around the sockets.<br>
3) Don’t wear anything that’s been washed in the past few months.
4) At least one article of clothing should be on backwards or inside out.<br>
5) Coffee-mug. This is key. Cling to it like a dying child clings to their blanket.
6) Somehow, inspite of your misery, manage to maintain a cocky coke-addict-esque smirk that says, "I may not have slept in the past two weeks, but I can solve Laplace transforms like no one else in a 10-mile radius. </p>
<p>:D</p>
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<p>This is so incredibly spot on–especially number 6.</p>
<p>Don’t wear sweats or pajamas or UGG boots or oversized/baggy anything. Don’t wear Cal gear (it might be OK to wear a sweatshirt from some other school, say, Brown or Harvard or an international school). If you are a guy, some facial hair wouldn’t hurt. If you are a girl, don’t wear flip flops. Actually, same goes for guys. Your clothes may not be washed, but try not to look like too much of a slob. Law students typically don’t look like slobs, at least the ones I know. There is a saying in The Who’s movie, Quadrophenia: “Clean living under difficult circumstances.” Aim for just below that, and you should be fine. </p>
<p>However, I’ve heard that the law library clerks don’t do random spot checks, but check everyone’s student ID after it closes to undergrads.</p>
<p>Not sure about law, but for male bio PhD students the white socks + sandals combo is quite the norm, together with a T-shirt that has some fancy expression written on the front of it that only you and your research supervisor understand. As suggested above, don’t shave, ever.</p>
<p>guide to an etiquette for dressing down? haha.</p>
<p>Grow a gnarly beard and just don’t sleep for days. Wear a Stanford sweatshirt.
When asked for identification, feign passive-aggressiveness. Be like sure, okay. And then upon realization that you don’t have your ID with you, act angry and be like Ah hamn it to dell, it must have slipped out while I was studying and making coffee at 3 in the morning. Then turn back into passive mode and be all, Just this once, may I stay?
or you can just hit on the clerk.</p>
<p>hmm… I don’t think all graduate students look that tired. My GSIs always look lively. For me I think that they dress older. Also chalk marks on pants or shirt may make you look like a GSI? What about backpacks? Do they still carry those around?</p>
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<p>Backpacks are not generally necessary because they have an office, but it depends if they’re heading off somewhere. </p>
<p>Chalk marks – let’s just say I frequently have those, and when I walked into a room, someone teaching a section earlier was still there and asked me if I taught the next hour. Make of this what you will.</p>
<p>Two words: shoulder bag</p>