#PhD track

[ikiprian]

Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School is a popular YouTube series. Tucker Foley is a star student.

Barbara Gordon's Cram School posts free online courses for both coding and computer engineering. Think Crash Course in terms of entertainment, but college lecture in terms of depth. Hundreds of thousands of viewers flock to it— students who missed a class, people looking to add new skills to a resume, even simple hobbyists. It’s a project Barbara’s proud of.

Sometimes, when she wants to relax, she’ll even hop in the comments and spend an afternoon troubleshooting a viewer’s project with them.

User “Fryer-Tuck” has especially interesting ones. Barbara finds herself seeking out his comments, checking in on whatever this crazy kid is making next. An app for collecting GPS pings and assembling them on a map in real-time, an algorithm that connects geographic points to predict something’s movement taking a hundred other variables into account, simplified versions of incredibly complex homemade programs so they can run on incredibly limited CPU’s.

(Barbara wants to buy the kid a PC. It seems he’s got natural talent, but he keeps making reference to a PDA. Talk about 90’s! This guy’s hardware probably predates his birth.)

She chats with him more and more, switching to less public PM threads, and eventually, he opens up. His latest project, though, is not something Barbara has personal experience with.

FT: so if you found, hypothetically, a mysterious glowing substance that affects tech in weird and wacky ways that could totally have potential but might be vaguely sentient/otherworldly…. what would you do and how would you experiment with it. safely, of course. and hypothetically

BG: I’d make sure all my tests were in disposable devices and quarantined programs to keep it from infecting my important stuff. Dare I ask… how weird and wacky is it?

FT: uhhh. theoretically, a person composed of this substance once used it to enter a video game. like physical body, into the computer, onto the screen? moving around and talking and fighting enemies within the game?

FT: its been experimented with before, but not on any tech with a brain. just basic shields and blasters and stuff, its an energy source. also was put in a car once

FT: i wanna see how it affects software, yk? bc i already know it can. mess around and see how far i can push it

BG: […]

FT: … barbara?

BG: Sorry, thinking. Would you mind sharing more details? You said “blasters?”

Honestly. Kid genius with access to some truly wacky materials and even wackier weapons, she needs to start a file on him before he full sends to either hero or villain.

[OR: Tucker is a self-taught hacker, but if he were to credit a teacher, he'd name Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School! He's even caught the attention of Dr. Gordon herself. She's full of sage advice, and with how she preaches the value of a good VPN, he's sure she's not pro-government. Maybe she'll help him as he studies the many applications of ecto-tech!]

#she does end up sending tucker a PC lol #and after she learns he has experience supporting a superhero team maybe pushes his name forward to WEs outreach program for r&d potentials #picks him up by the scruff and says MY coding buddy #also fun fact she had a phd in library science at one point. i like that about her i think we should talk about it a little more #also tucker was making a ghost reporting & tracking app for amity parkers #dpxdc #dcxdp #barbara gordon #tucker foley #prompt #kipwrite

[shrimpchipsss]

foremost scholar of yuri theory

#yesss tell me more about the ways in which #theyre reading yuri zine #binghe is on the seventh year of her phd which is so strange she was on track to finish early.. the timeline is all off?? #she survived grant writing hell to spend a few more years under professor shen's care #sqq wears sheer black stockings you know the ones #sv academia au #lesbingqiu #shen qingqiu #fem!shen qingqiu #luo binghe #sqq #lbh #bingqiu #rule 63 #svsss #scum villain #genderswap #fem!luo binghe

[everymeloneveryday]

chapter 162 page 18

#beastars #melon beastars #beastars melon #melon #chapter 162 #what always gets me is that she lets him do this #she lets her son kill her #like there is absolutely no doubt that she abused him #she loved his papa so much something broke in her when he left and instead of learning to cope like a normal person she... #i have sympathy for a woman who clearly needed a lot of help and in the absence of that ended up abusing her child #but thats about where it ends #she deserved to die for what she did as much as she deserved to be helped #anyway unrelated to melomama sometimes i think about what happened to him after this #like chances are they wouldve tried to find the next of kin to dump him on #but considering how hybrids are viewed by society and how isolated melomama is AND how hard he was to track down by the police #chances are he just got lost in the foster system #having a fully fledged PhD by 23/24 is fuckin INSANE btw he wouldve had to skip grades n get into college courses by 12 at the latest #which means btw on pretty much all his legal documentation hes probably JUST marked as a gazelle #lol. melon. i think about him every day

[essektheylyss]

honestly though, what I've learned this quarter is thank fuck I did not go to grad school at 23. I am astoundingly on top of my shit. there is absolutely no way I would've been managing this well at 23. under no fucking circumstances.

#the real reason people hate grad school cuz most people do it at 23 and being 23 is the worst #this is absolutely a joke grad school can and does suck for other reasons. i am enjoying it but I acknowledge this is not the norm. #but for real if you're like 'should i take a couple years in between or should i go straight to grad school' this is your sign. #HOWEVER do not fucking lose track of your rec letter professors. that's really the trick. #you have to learn to be a person AND stay in touch with at least one but preferably 2-3 professors. #also disclaimer i cannot comment on phds. this is about masters programs phds are a different beast.

[howlsmovinglibrary]

I miss the days when an essay could be drafted, submitted, graded, and done. The worst part of the PhD thesis is that there is no GRADE and its never OVER (she says, 5 months from the deadline).

#finalising a draft for chapter two which means reading COMMENTS and my god my supervisors are track changes biggest fans #miss the days when i finished a thing got a mark and moved on with my life #instead i'm jumping through 70000 hoops and reshaping an entire chapter. #i know it doesn't work As Is - I *know* that - but consider: #if I was an undergrad still. it would no longer be a Me Problem. It would be a Past-Me Problem. #academia tag #phd tag

[vermillioncrown]

lmao. 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 this is what grad students call "a cry for help"

#redglyphs #on tpac #phd-verse #tbf i only do this when i'm stuck on something else... #was being stubborn about my thesis experiments but decided to down-scope so maybe that'll help #the numbers aren't accurate bc it only tracks when i officially put in a word count per document #but...i think the avg word count per doc is 5-6k? you can do the math. #(and this doesn't include whfagt...)

[nicosraf]

Sorry I'm a little behind and all-over-the-place with asks! I've been pretty busy and really scrambled lately..... but I'll get myself together soon!

#Thank you all for being patient with me! #PhD stuff and tax season ugh #But I'm traveling back home tomorrow! Hopefully I'll be able to get back and track.... #mine

[pochapal]

self assessment improvement charts are the nastiest pox god has ever inflicted on planet earth

#:) #explain to me in 5 seconds what the point of a personal development plan is or i start biting #genuinely who the hell knows what they're gonna be doing each month for the next 3 years why do i need to submit itemized calendars #aren't deadlines enough. who benefits exactly from knowing which thesis chapter i'll be writing next june #i don't even know half the stuff they're asking from me like yeah events will probably happen over the course of this phd isn't that enough #i know maybe what's happening up until march i do NOT subscribe to a longterm thinking culture #if i don't submit my work according to the hard deadlines i will die so does it really matter how i get there so long as i get there lmao #'please track your progression with your writing confidence on this 5 point scale' concepts made up by the utterly Deranged

[the-one-who-lambs]

I just realized that this past month has given me so many people I need to credit in my thesis

#hannah's rambles #for those who are new here: #i genuinely value this fandom and friends I've met through it so much that y'all help me retain enough of a semblance of sanity #enough to get me through the first 3 semesters of grad school (so far) #if we are mutuals and have ever interacted like twice. you're in my acknowledgements. #this past semester has been BRUTAL but only 2 more weeks!! and then I'm off to san fran for a conference yayayayayaay #next semester I'm taking 1 class and dumping all my remaining credits into research to finish my master's level thesis #“wait are you a phd student or a master's student” yes. i went straight from undergrad to phd track because I'm so silly like that #if we've made each other's acquaintance I'm formally recognizing u and your tangential contributions to science #put that on ur resume lmao

[oatbugs]

. anyway after writing the tags 4 this post i told my research partner i will no longer follow his dreams lmao. still helping w it but i need to engage in research that i find satisfying

#i think ive been waiting for something for a while and i will spend the next year waiting for it too #i thought i felt panic but i have decided to read it as anticipation. the thrill of rejection or of moving forward or the latter as #a result of the former. i left you with your backpack unattended in the cafe because on fridays i am done #putting my life on hold for another whim-without-a-warning #this cross country service is delayed by 26 minutes so i will grab a bucket and start shovelling the water away from the tracks #everyone is moving on in some different way and im sorry if you think im mean for telling you getting so drunk will disable you from #recording your brainwaves effectively but it seems like you think i owe you an awful lot. one year ago in four days my friend got me hegel's #science of logic for my birthday and i thanked him for proving to me the existence of things this is what i do he said #and then he will spend the rest of his life breathing philosophy and i dont want to spend the rest of my life #breathing someone elses dreams i wait for the moment of realisation. this is now a 30 minute delay. i was supposed to worship beautiful #things and that is what i will do. i think i have a best friend and i know i have a lover and i know to #restrict my love the way you have. im sorry. i hope you understand when i tell you. i am now sitting on the floor in the luggage section of #this incredibly busy train and i saw a photo of her with her boyfriend and her hair in braids smiling like a fool this is the #except a week ago you told me you almost took too much this time to live. you are a beautiful girl with a beautiful soul and you know you #have already changed the world and it somehow was not enough. now you are smiling without any makeup on next to him #and yesterday you cried in an airport in the states when you were too full of love. this is the most extraordinary human being i have met. #tomorrow he heads off to princeton while his best friend heads to harvard. he goes there to make the world a better place. he is the most #extraordinary person i have ever met. the issue with human beings is that we are incredibly good at almost dying and keeping going. #you try to kill yourself and publish a paper and give a talk. you negotiate the seperation between your own parents and submit another #phd application. i am surrounded by extraordinary people with extraordinary minds and incredibly broken happy hearts. #i only see you smile when you talk about robotics. i still dont know how manifolds work and i love the concept anyway. i dont know. #i do know that i refuse to live unsatisfied. #you can keep drinking. im going to drink this reality up #i think i was a horrible person and i refuse to engage with that mentality again no matter what it takes.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#guess whos back in therapy bby 😎 #the lady i saw was nice. 1st appointments r always a lotta blah blah blah so much to cover #and im always like bleh whatever im not that bad but when u put it all down on paper it is sorta a lot lol #i got the comment. hm u seem to kno a lot abt the dsm. and like listen. i have been meticulously categorizing my problems for the last 4 #years. and i like to learn so ya kno. also said yea it sounds like u r having hypomanic episodes. #and asked if bipolar was a possibility and like if i was bipolar that would absolutely blow my god damn mind. im pretty sure its just pmdd #but whatever. im open to the possibility. mostly i wanna hear someone else perspective on this #i feel like im collaborating on a project. like gimmie ur notes i wanna see if were on the same track. bc im insane like that #i always feel bad when they apologize for asking invasive questions. like neh its fine. i got nothin to hide and i dont give a fuck #also i told a class of my peers that my distraction from research is drawing narut0 fan art. again bc i do not #give a single fuck. Professors response: hopefully we get to see it some day. bro. if u ask me i will show u. i do not care #i mean. probably nothing too weird but i feel like most of my stuff is safe to share. i just come off looking like a weeb i guess #but yea back in therapy bc my mum reminded me bc the ppl around me irl r also worried for my well-being based on my behavior lol #i mean its just bc i complain that im in like psychological pain a lot. so lots and lots of bitching abt my brain ^^ #the lady i saw did fall a lil bit into my trap. like what woulf ur life look like if u had everything under control? bc it seems like ur #here and ur starting a phd what more do u want? and im like mwahaha but u see i can do school #i can do school so good. i am the best at school and thats it. i am otherwise barely functional #so i can be successful on paper and dysfunctional when it comes to having a life :-] #but whatever. well see what she wants to follow up on next week bc i threw a lot at her #also went to my office for the 1st time. it is really nice to sit in a working lab and watch ppl interact. but also i do feel like im #dying if i try to sit in that room with 2 other ppl lol. so well see how it goes. i may find somewhere else to hide #unrelated

[zugmode]

Ask game 5 / 43 / 44

5: do you take drugs?

nah. i drink, but i dont do drugs.

43: sexiest person that comes to mind immediately

ellen ripley in the first alien movie. she was supposed to be a lesbian btw <3

44: random fact about anything

history facts simply don’t exist because the discipline itself consists pretty much exclusively of arguments. anyway, i’m convinced that 50s Space Monster Movies are a direct consequence of an intersection between red scare and early space age politics. i can prove this. probably.

#switching my phd track to american studies so i can write a dissertation about alien monster movies #im only half joking about that. it would be fun

[awek-s-archived]

this trend of my mom thinking im an idiot who doesnt know anything abt the world is genuinely getting really tiring

#like my irritation levels are Not going down it's piling up more and more and she'soff work til the end of the month so she's gonna be w me #24/7 and idk how to handle it really lmao #i lived on my own for years im only back home bc the cost of living is so fucking high and all my friends pulled out of our prior living #arrangements . and that sucks but it's literally not my fault or up to me.. like i dont want to be here ? #and shes kinda holding on to me so badly because she doesnt wanna be alone and she has such an awful track record w men but that means that #she takes everything out on me all the time but also babies me intensely. #im 25 she literally tells me what an egg feels like as if ive never used one or even touched one before like it's that bad #but she's also intensely emotionally immature so on top of that i also feel like a parent #bc most of my time is spent on trying to educate her abt xyz and her getting defensive and im like i have to tell u this bc if you go out #saying the things you're saying to me now you're gonna get beaten up in the street lmfaojdsklgfd #like... #anyway sorry but like. it's REALLY getting to me. i really want to leave. im so so fucking broke #when i get my student loan for my phd im still not going to be able to afford to move out #i dont know what to do anymore #not to be sewer side all on main but like.. #aweks.txt

[vermillioncrown]

notable quotes during this entire process of Suffering

"you need to be a little delusional to have a thesis. at least a bit."

"oo she's starting to believe"

"barring setting your hair on fire and sitting between you and the monitor, i don't think you can be stopped"

"if you could, you'd have a beard at this point. and be balding"

"is it drugs or do you feel Things inside?"

"doesn't have to be coherent. or logical. just needs to Be"

"just write 'let's be frfr, you're skipping this chapter my esteemed committee members' in the middle"

#academic jerky #i hate myself so much lmao #it's almost a universal experience that no matter how early you start #no matter how much time you allot #the amount of writing you do is 'wpm_adj = wpm_base * exp(1/(time left))' #took me nearly 1.5 years (which can be tracked through my author's notes and general bitching on the blog) to get ~20 pages #which had to be rewritten anyways #within these last 10 days in which 5 of those days i was in public at a conference or sharing a hotel or on an airplane #i wrote 90 fucking pages with actual content #and two of those chapters are 'lol i have works sighted and will give you a more comprehensive lit review for my defense bye' #'anyhoo this is what that lit should suggest and here's my logic let's move on bc yall usually skip these chapters' #if i could materialize my brain as a separate entity i would throttle the little bitch for being so infuriating #anyways. proposal document done. now i gotta bust out a 45 min ppt presentation and practice getting btfo'd by next friday 🤪(😭) #and then it's phd candidacy babey

[earlymodernlesbian]

going on a leave of absence from grad school and dropping my current class like

#to be clear the class itself is literally not the problem #the problem is my job but uhhhhh nothing is going to change on that front so SOMETHING needs to get taken off my plate #and i'll do grad school full time next year and that will be a lot more manageable and chill #apparently i can get on like the really really good UT health insurance if i TA just 30 hours a week??? #AND tuition is covered??????? plus about 60% of regular teacher salary -- and that's like public school teacher salary so more than me #my advisor is trying really hard to get me to switch into the phd track tbd #i hear if you teach college students you don't need to have numerous conversations each week with them about appropriate bathroom behavior #like not attempting to flush doorstops #as i have had to do every week in 4th grade this year #anywayyyyyy i still maintain that i think the UT phd specifically would probably not be a good fit for me but we'll see we'll see

[visenyaism]

[wizard voice] ive sacrificed everything for my phd. what have you given?

this isn’t even a bit this is just how people in academia talk

#academia is so. well. yeah. #getting a phd isn’t the ultimate sacrifice ppl break out blood rituals to get tenure track job #should i get a phd vote now on your phones