Just got a message from my fabulous friend Christa "No-Middle-Name" McDermott and felt inclined to share what I believe may be the quintessential Grad School toast. (Along with a photo of us from her visit in January, biking down Mass Ave.)

She wrote: "may your grades be high, your all nighters few, and your incompletes granted with ease and finished in less than 2 years."

PS: No, of course this is not a veiled distraction from my finals studying. This is, um, something . . . uh . . . persuasively compulsory.