By Laura Harrison |
Happy Halloween! Since PhDs are known procrastinators, I figured it was a fairly safe bet that most of you have not yet sorted out your Halloween costumes this year. If you don’t yet have plans, we at Pubs and Pubs strongly endorse any opportunity to go to the pub, so make plans now. To aid you in your Halloween quest, here are some tailor-made costume ideas.
Favourite figure from your research
I’ve been threatening for years to go as the Declaration of Arbroath. The first archaeologist I see who goes as Indiana Jones will be my hero forever (though perhaps shunned by all other archaeologists)
Creeping sense of guilt
Dress in black, write ‘thesis’ on your chest, and follow people around at an increasingly close distance
The ghost of Arts and Humanities funding
White sheet, ‘Arts and Humanities $$’ in red paint (or blood, depending on your level of commitment to the cause)
A doctor
The medical kind, not the useless-in-an-emergency kind you will inevitably be
Your thesis
Partially written and structurally unsound – finish all your sentences early and fall down a lot
Conference attendee
Wear a jacket with elbow patches, eat loads of biscuits, and constantly say ‘I don’t have a question so much as a comment…’
Famous Professors from History
Professor Plum, The Professor, The Nutty Professor, Professor Frink, Professor Dumbledore, Professor Charles Xavier, Professor Josiah Bartlett (he was also the President, test your friends’ West Wing knowledge)
Yourself
If all else fails, you likely haven’t seen the sun for months, so go as you are and call yourself a ghost.
Laura Harrison is the Editor-in-Chief of Pubs and Pubs. You can follow her on Twitter to see if she ever goes through with the Declaration of Arbroath costume.
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