#phd graduate school

[legogradstudent]

Collaborating on a project with several colleagues, the grad student is unable to identify exactly what he is contributing.

#LEGO #PhD #PhD life #grad student #grad student life #grad school #grad school life #graduate life #grad life #teamwork #collaboration #group work #coauthors #contribution #what am i doing here #free riding #when will everyone kick me out

[mvffinhamster]

I’M SORRY BUT CHARLIE SLIMECICLE ????

he’s always been fine but he’s evolving like a pokémon…

starting here: nerdy guy with big smile (so cute smile)

and suddenly he takes off his glasses…

and that’s okay, we’ve seen him without his glasses it’s okay, the messy hair is a bonus

BUT THEN???

SUDDENLY HE GRADUATED GAY HIGH SCHOOL

AND FUCKING GAY COLLEGE

EXCUSE ME ???? i am dead, i am actually 100% fucking dead

HE IS TOO HOT FOR HIS OWN GOOD

#his eyes are so blue i want to die #he’s doing his phd in serving after graduating ha high school and college with flying colors #i don’t know if i want to be with him or be him #most likely the later #but i have eyes #and he is fucking hot #none of my thoughts are in the bible #charlie slimecicle #slimecicle

[alexistudies]

monday, march 11th 2024

spring break came and went in the blink of an eye, but it was lots of fun! met up with friends from HS, went to disneyland, and spent time with my family. I also still did some work over break that was time sensitive, but I can't really complain :)

its officially past the halfway point of the semester and i can see the finish line. ahhhh. i also realize i need to start studying more for my classes because things are getting more complex... BUT WE WILL SURVIVE

follow my studygram if you want a more frequent, up close in my daily academic life - IG: lexthephdstudent

#alexistudies #alexi's phd year 1 #studyblr #studyspo #smartspo #phdblr #phd blog #phd student #grad school #graduate student #stemblr #collegeblr #uniblr #studying #hey gen #genspen #morningkou #beautyinmechanical

[honeesblog]

a lot of people in my program really only do their studies and to my other PHD's I urge you: make sure you have other things going on! I have a near endless list of weird hobbies and sports and other interests and I just want you to know that you don't need to eat, sleep, and breathe only your topic and subject! Read a fiction book for fun, paint something badly, find a nice shop to browse in, go for a walk in a green area, take a break and don't rush through it. Pleasure and relaxation are valuable and worth your time. The point of a PhD/Masters is not to work in a hard and unsustainable way until you are done but instead to learn how to be an academic, what type of academic you are, and how you want to live your life/balance your academics and everything else!

When you are studying/working, don't be afraid of being wrong or doing things messily or poorly. On hard days, give yourself leeway, add an extra scoop of sugar to your coffee or tea, and listen to the rocky theme!

#phd #academic #female academic #phd life #phdblr #phdjourney #women in academia #phd advice #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #graduate student #graduate school #grad school #mypost

[mearcatsreturns]

I have a bookstagram, and I recently followed someone because they posted about the overconsumption issue that most bookish social media seems to have. Today, though, they posted another controversial "opinion": that listening to audiobooks isn't reading, and people who claim to have read a bunch of books that they listened to as audiobooks are lying and/or deluded. Listening to audiobooks, she said, is just consuming books.

I disagreed in a fairly politely worded reply, and I intend to unfollow/block, because I find it unlikely this person will change their mind, especially since I'm far from the only person to point out that this is exclusionary and ableist. But this is tumblr/my house, and now I'm going to be as blunt as I want to be.

I'm a librarian and archivist. So much of the work I and others in my field do focuses on making books and reading more accessible and less exclusionary. It is, in fact, incredibly ableist to negate how important audiobooks are for people who have certain disabilities or challenges, and I would in no universe say they aren’t reading. For that matter, a busy person who only has time for audiobooks and for people who just prefer them--it still counts, as far as I'm concerned.

See, there's a difference between an audiobook and a podcast or long song or radio program. An audiobook is still a book--it was written with a particular narrative structure, and the author plays a defined but limited role (once the book is written, it's written; the author isn't tuning in next episode with comments and corrections based on what listeners said). An audiobook is a book, ergo, listening to one is reading. Using braille is reading, and listening to audiobooks is reading.

The part that has me in full Captain Raymond Holt "apparently that is a trigger for me" mode is that this bookstagrammer called listening to audiobooks consumption. In the context of her other posts about overconsumption as an issue in the bookish community (again, agree, but also...mind your own business), this seems particularly insidious to me. Conflating influencer-driven (and capitalist hellscape) consumption with listening to an audiobook (again, a massive boon for the visually impaired and those with disabilities like ADHD, dyslexia, etc.) is rude at best and dangerously exclusionary at worst. Stop letting comparison be the thief of joy; mind your own business and stop looking at the pages that bother you. Focus on the kindness of leaning towards inclusion, meeting people where they are, and leaving judgment behind.*

*This person also said "feel free to comment if you disagree but please don't be mean or judgmental," as if they hadn't just posted the most ableist and judgmental sludge I've seen today.

tl;dr: don’t be a gatekeeping shithead, mind your own business, and

(gif by matalyn on tenor, couldn't find on tumblr)

#books #bookstagram #reading #bookish culture #audiobooks #inclusivity #i am honestly so brave for not arguing with more people #I didn't become a lawyer because I didn't want to monetize my number one hobby (arguing) #this person says they're getting a PhD and writing a dissertation on publishing #so I worry that people will lend their posts a certain weight they don't deserve #so here I am: I've literally taken graduate courses in the history of books and the text as a concept. #i specialized in that. it's what I intend to get a PhD in if I decide I'm insane enough to go back to grad school #anyway trust me bro (gender neutral) #(i won't die on ANY hill but i sure will on a whole lot)

[communistkenobi]

there are valid reasons to have an antagonistic relationship to academic scholarship, but those reasons are overwhelmingly not raised in graduate classrooms, where students instead bitch about theory in general, jargon in general, making them sound ultimately like conservatives, who view any attempt to systematically account for social phenomena as a form of useless intellectual degeneracy

#you’re in a PhD program and you’re bitching about reading theory? Aren’t you just a little bit embarrassed? #this is a vague about my graduate cohort lol don’t mind me #I have increasingly little patience for grad students who refuse to engage with anything even slightly abstract or dense #you are literally in a social science graduate program. That is like one of the primary tasks you need to do in grad school #If you want to engage with it for the purposes of critique that is completely acceptable #but seeing a word you don’t know and immediately quitting and dismissing it as useless nonsense is not going to get you very far #we have to read Capital for our comps lol. what are you gonna do then

[notyetjaded1]

Wanting to post aesthetically pleasing studyblr content while having the bulk of my time dedicated to tasks (e.g., clinical work, early research, journal drafts) that cannot/should not/will not be posted on a public forum is an absolute joy. And I will find creative ways to keep myself motivated and accountable while trying to stay aesthetically interesting.

#studyblr #study motivation #personal #graduate school #phdblr #phd life #clinical psychology #psychology #graduate student #productivity #motivation

[deliriousdisquisitions]

Emailing your professors when you need to ask them something, be it deadline extensions, recommendations, accepting research proposals, etc. anything needing some sort of approval is just such a traumatizing experience?? It's the "worse she can say is no" meme but like it literally is THE WORST though??? I would just DIE!

#deliriousdisquisitions #delirious disquisitions #studyblr #gradblr #bookblr #studyspo #chaotic academia #academia #phd applications #phd life #college applications #college student #academic validation #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #books #studying #study notes #graduate school #grad blogging #phd studyblr #phd #phd candidate

[thephdpensieve]

Don't let the distance between where you are and where you want to be scare you out of moving forward.

But how?

This fear is like gravity. I can't feel it pulling me down, it is not prominent. It is not in the top of my head and making me fret every moment. It is not crushing or intense, it is not making me implode.

But it is there. It is keeping me from moving. I am paralyzed without even realizing. It has stopped me from being hopeful, or even looking at the future.

What's the cause? The distance between where I am and where I want to be, rather where I have to be. It is so far because I lagged behind once. And I am lagging behind still because the distance is daunting me now.

It's a loop. One thing feeds the other and vice versa. As time passes, the distance just keeps growing and I am standstill right where I was a year ago. And with the distance grows the fear. I get anxious more and more, and even simple tasks feel monstrous now. It is only a matter of time for me to succumb into the loop: to spiral into a blackhole.

How do I get out of this loop? How do I break this loop? How do I not let the distance scare me? Right now, I am all questions and no answers. I am writing this blog post to lift some weight off my chest and put it out in the open.

What helps you in such moments? Have you escaped the loop before? Or, are you too stuck in a loop like me?

#chaotic academia #gradblr #gradschool aesthetic #dark academia #studysthetics #uniblr #stemblr #physics phd #phd life #phdjourney #phd student #grad school #dissertation #university #academics #phdblr #phd guidance #phd stuff #phd tips #graduate school #phd anxiety #mental health in academia #fear of failure #phd problems #research process #advice for self

[radiojamming]

I GLEEFULLY OBLIGE

#doctor henry goodpurr phd #we have no idea what he went to graduate school for but he has a bowtie so it must be important #also he doesn't go outside unless i take him with me when i'm doing yardwork and he stays pretty close to me

[legogradstudent]

Repairing his run-down laptop, the grad student is tempted to obliterate the anxiety-ridden piece of junk instead.

#LEGO #phd #phd life #grad school #grad school problems #grad student #grad student problems #grad life #graduate school #tech #technology #laptop #computer #run-down #repair #junk #hitting it might help #did you try restarting #can i restart my life instead

[alexistudies]

monday, april 22nd 2024

happy earth day! this morning, i broke the ice on working on my first IRB form. i feel like this is such a big kid step in the PhD world, it's very exciting. hoping to get a good chunk of it done before friday and i'll probably need more help from my PI than i originally expected on it but that's okay :)

the past weekend was a great balancing act of adulting, relaxing, and academia. had a study date with a friend at the library for neural engineering, went to the pool, had date night w the boyf, and also went for a run with the pup. and i finished 2 library books (praise the LORD)

#alexistudies #alexi's phd year 1 #studyblr #studyspo #studying #genspen #heygen #morningkou #stemblr #scienceblr #collegeblr #uniblr #phdblr #gradblr #grad school #grad student #phd life #academia #graduate school #elkstudies #hey sprouht #selkiestudies #student life #study motivation #university

[everythingaboutbiotech]

Choosing advisor is the most important decision in your academic life.

#phd life #phdblr #phd student #phdjourney #graduate school #phdlife #phd

[aroacehanzawa]

i love being several years older than my year group at university because i can just do an age reveal as a fun party trick

#yesterday i thoroughly shocked my friend's boyfriend who has known me for several years because he always thought i was younger than him #(i am three years older) #for context in scotland people start uni at like 17. 16 even #most internationals started at 18 #i'm from finland we graduate high school at 19. i was closer to 20 by the time i started university #i'm doing a masters and they all think i'm like 20-21 </3 #also last summer i did an internship among phd students and they were treating me as like a young little gen zer asking me for opinions on #tiktok trends and stuff because i'm 'so young' and i was like guys i'm literally your age. they said they thought i was 19 </3

[galculus]

Let me tell you all a story.

Once upon a time, a grad student had to take 3 qualifying exams to prove she knew about math and things so she could start working on her dissertation. The first exam she had to take was graph theory.

All the other grad students who had taken prelims told her that she needed to study the past prelims. So she did. She and the other students gathered together and studied hard and the day the prelim came, they answered everything well. 48 hours later, the grad student received an email from the main graph theorist in the department that she had passed the exam. Huzzah!

Later that summer came the Algebra prelim. The grad student was much more scared for this exam because she felt as though she didn’t understand algebra as well as graph theory. She and her fellow grad students studied hard, though, taking as many past qualifying exams as they could get their hands on. The little grad student even read way more about gröbner bases than she ever wanted to know. And then the prelim came. And she had to define elementary symmetric polynomials on the exam. And that was a thing. Two weeks later, she and her fellow grad students received letters in their mailboxes saying they passed. *(kinda. There’s a long story about this one, but it is not little grad student’s story to tell.) Huzzah!

Now little grad student hadn’t fully committed to graph theory as her area of study at this point. So grad student wondered what would happen if she pursued another area. Well, she’d have to take 2 more prelims instead of just one. So for that reason and many others, little grad student decided to prepare only for Algebraic topology the next summer. She studied hard and then on a dark Monday morning, she and her fellow grad students made their way to campus to take the prelim.

According to sources, right after turning in her exam, grad student was as pale as a ghost, which is impressive because grad student is already very very pale skinned.

Everyone in the department had told grad student that she would do fine. But grad student was scared. Then, during TA orientation, the professor of Algebraic topology lets slip to one of the fellow grad students that “they all did fine”. Then suddenly fifteen minutes later, after fellow grad student has told this to his peers, the professor announces with a giant thumbs up that the three grad students passed.

Little grad student missed all this. She was too busy talking to another grad student and professor about something else and only found out she passed her prelim when the professor was right behind her to shake her hand.

But seriously. Little grad student wants it in writing that she passed. It would be greatly appreciated.

TLDR: I have passed all three of my prelims and the way we were told we passed the last one was WILD. This is the condensed version of the story, but at least the chair of the department was in the room.

#I still don’t think my advisor knows #but I passed my prelims #and real analysis is being given tomorrow and I don’t have to be there #huzzah! #adventures of a phd student #math #graduate school #graduate student #prelims #topology #qualifying exams

[museum-spaces]

seeking advice

Hello my dear academics - and other various nerds.

I am looking for advice for my current PhD application; I am finalizing my Statement of Purpose and I have space in it to talk about my autism diagnosis and Ianto being a service dog.

However, the dilemma, would it be used against my application or not/ should I wait to hear if I get in before telling them I need accommodations like for a job or should I use it in the essay. This application does not have any sort of 'my struggle' essay to write, just a writing sample - my MA thesis - and the SOP.

I already said in it that I wrote and implemented the Egypt Centre's first autistic accessibility program.... which is literally how I found out I'm autistic. So it does fit in, and I have the space.

But it is a disorder that is discriminated against.

going to tag a few folk but I want as many opinions as you have for me so please comment/re-blog whatever. I have also decided that 1 like = 1 vote to disclose so feel free to just like if you don't feel chatty.

@13faeinapenguinsuit @saintartemis @queenanne1532 @chaotic-archaeologist @autie-j @micewithknives @bundibird @rudjedet @sisterofiris

as usual; the above is a non-exhaustive list of the people on here whose opinion I admire and trust. there are always people I have left off because remembering all y'all's handles is impossible.

#not museums #academic problems #academia #academics #grad school #graduate #phd stuff #phd struggles #phd student #egyptology #autism #actually autistic #service dog