#prospectus drafting

[werewolf-transgenderism]

grad school will have you writing shit like "realms of possibility emerge through queer communication in stories that don't quite track, produced by nonnormative bodyminds and producing queer temporalities, rhetorics, and modes of engagement not offered by the normative" like girl (gn) what are you even saying anymore

#anyway. prospectus feedback in dissertation seminar on Thursday which means I have to have a draft by Wednesday #and I have.... a handful of paragraphs #agony

[gigantomachylesbian]

my tasks for the evening:

goof off

eat a lot of sour patch kids

survive the horrors

#k talks #bweh. bwehbwehbweh. bwehbweh. #I can make it I can make it two more days until break I have it in me. urgh. #I'm not going to my morning meeting tomorrow because I don't understand coding for shit anyways. so hopefully that fixes me #I was going to work on my prospectus but actually my job is to feel better and conserve energy. #AND I finished my reading for tomorrow so I'll have time to at least draft it and then I can edit it friday

[waitformereprise]

im working . so hard

#on my prospectus draft number 4883585&/9394 #due tomorrow !!!!!

[wolveswithoutteeth]

.

#i did it! it’s submitted! #the dreaded prospectus draft that has consumed my life this month has finally been submitted #if I focused more then it would’ve already been submitted but. oh well. #I’m really hoping this is the final and/or it just need minor edits that I can solve in a day #but ugh. what a fucking relief to submit this. #I will now read. and watch tv. and try to catch up on my sleep. #personal

[jennycalendar]

it is objectively speaking so so so fucking funny how normal i’m making my thesis sound during senior sem. like i’m coming in going “here’s why ACADEMICALLY SPEAKING i will be writing 25 pages about jenny.” this is what i’ve been training for

#musings #like i just read my little mini draft of my prospectus and it sounds SO NORMAL #it sounds like. THOUGHTFUL. INTERESTING. A FRESH TAKE #this is amazing. i feel like a little secret agent.

[fuckitfireeverything]

the amount that I am simultaneously extremely full of myself and also just fucking wrecked by imposter syndrome

#I keep re-reading my prospectus draft like the fuckin evil queen looking in her mirror admiring how nice it is #and then getting up to like wash dishes and going 'wow I can't believe I have never had a single original thought worth #contributing to a scholarly conversation'

[easays]

I'm getting a PhD, and last week, I was finishing my dissertation prospectus draft. A prospectus is essentially a proposal of my topic with details for why and a very long bibliography to show I know my field (which is 18th/19th c lit and queer-trans-crip theory). I listened to Aabria Iyengar's playlist for Suvi in Worlds Beyond Number (available on the Patreon!), and truly, I think it filled my fingers with wizard magic. Why?

Reader, I passed with *no revisions* on my *first draft*. My committee said "we have no notes, this is amazing, you may proceed." WBN and Aabria specifically will be getting a shout out in my dissertation acknowledgments.

#wbn #actual play #aabria iyengar #worlds beyond number #wbn: www #wwwo #seriously felt like I got my namecloak #I claimed the wizard scream because that's how I felt while writing and I think I have to stick with it #thank you aabria #idk what magic you put in that playlist but consider yourself my academic warlock patron #that's technically multiclassing but idgaf did you see the part up there where I listed five things to describe my research

[gradling]

03.10.2023 | 66/100 days of productivity

68% of reading list done

3 days to complete initial prospectus draft (for advisor)

1 week until first prospectus draft due (for committee)

2 weeks until translation exams

3 weeks until oral exams

#jam posts #100 days of productivity #gradblr #phdblr

[gothprentiss]

last year when i had to return like 200 books to the library (they were for quals and prospectus drafting! they were almost necessary!) i swore i would keep my research books in my library carrel and never run into the same problem again…. anyway guess who��s on the way to the library with a list of completely un work related books to bring home and only maybe read 😔

#i cant HELP IT!!! there’s a poetry rat ratatouilleing me

[werewolf-transgenderism]

in limbo waiting for my advisor & committee to approve my final prospectus draft so I can submit it to GSAS, I have no responsibilities because I won't have any grading to do until tomorrow night, I'm just sitting here anxiously reading and knitting a sweater while feeling like I am neglecting responsibilities

#realistically I do not have anything I NEED to do rn #I could work on revising my syllabus calendar for next semester but I have an entire month to do that #I just feel like I should be doing SOMETHING

[philsmeatylegss]

Guess who left writing her Prospectus draft to the night before it’s due and it’s only supposed to be around 7 pages but you’re already at page nine still with like half your sources to go having already spent hours reading about the Battle of Stalingrad and it’s almost as if I was given a week to write this for a reason

#a girl is struggling #hmu if any of y’all were at the battle of Stalingrad #it’s so interesting but I’ve been working for like six hours and it’s only halfway #rae’s rambles

[morvantmortuary]

stunt!Maxi and I are about to have my first meeting with my full committee in months and this is the big thing that I expect made my face blow up like an airbag bc I’m essentially throwing out my first draft prospectus and saying “hey guys what if I wrote about this niche micro genre instead” so. wish us luck bc they’re gonna be here in three minutes ahskdlflhkdhsjgly

#and then rarae says #I’m only shaking from the caffeine ofc

[tazzy-zooming]

I am not allowed to leave this coffee shop until my new prospectus draft is done. I've started things off very healthily. Went for a morning walk, drank coffee, ate an actual breakfast with fruits and vegetables and everything.

I am 22 pages into this prospectus draft and am at one eye twitch per hour. We'll see how the day progresses

#grad school

[on-the-heath]

upcoming january to-dos:

2 abstracts (1/15 and 1/16)

grant app draft (1/16) final (1/23)

conference chair prep (1/20)

conference book talk prep (1/20)

funding request for spring language institute (uhhhhh 1/23?)

comps eval meeting (1/24? 1/25?)

schedule prospectus defense (for april?)

logistics for feb. speaker (week of 1/23 probs) (email ss)

conference 1/24-1/26!

#feeling good feeling energetic #ready 2 go

[strengthandshield]

Current vibe: desperately trying to get some work done on my prospectus draft

#english major #grad school #gradblr #phd stuff #shakespeare #a day in my life

[gradling]

I hope it's fine that all the arguments in my prospectus draft are nothing statements atm because it's really hard to make a real argument when you're still in the exploratory stages

#lol lmao even #gl to my advisor #gl to future me #jam posts