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I am a 4th-year PhD student based in the UK, currently working on a topic within visual perception. Thinking ahead, I would love to explore the psychology associated of music, in terms of perception, but also wider areas, such as the interactions between music and cognitive and emotional processe...

I have just set up a gofundme page to raise funds towards a course which I would love to take, and would provide a nice grounding for an area of study/research I’m interested in pursuing post-PhD…please take a look for more info, and if you can make even a small donation, every little helps!

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This is a great cause, and combines science and music! So great, that I’ve come back from the great post-graduation world to share it with you all. I want to use this blog for good. So I hope you all are doing well, and remember to support each other where you can!

#gofundme #phd student #grad school #PhD #science #reserach #learning #if anyone else needs support let me know #love you all #support each other!#grad life

Update time

Hello everyone! I feel as though it’s time to offer up an update and tell you all how I’ve been and where I’m heading.

First off, I just want to thank all of you for going through this grad school journey with me. I remember the day I made this blog, sitting around waiting for a seminar talk to begin on a Friday afternoon in January 2013. I have no doubts in my mind that I could not have made it through without this blog and all of you. This community has been one of the best parts of grad school for me. Knowing that I wasn’t alone has helped me do everything I needed to do to be successful. You all helped me keep my sanity, laugh at the good times and the bad, and hold my hand through every new experience.

This Saturday I graduate. I picked up my gown and hood and everything today, and I’ve been on the verge of tears ever since.

I’ve got offers for part-time faculty teaching positions in my department through the summer, and then I’m joining our occupational therapy department in the fall. I know it may sound strange, but I am more than thrilled to be able to work in a cadaver lab again. It was so nice to be welcomed into a department and be told how qualified and amazing I was, and that they wanted to get me before someone else could recruit me. I was selected because of my qualifications, and not because of some political departmental move.

I am so happy.

So for now, as things trickle down and I wrap up projects and papers, my posting on here will probably slow down. I will post things as they happen and become relevant, and I will be as sad to leave you all as I am my research lab!

I would still like to provide any advice and knowledge I have to you all, so if you have thoughts or concerns, keep them coming! Also, I would love to give shoutouts and love to the whole gradblr community, so if you have a blog you’d like me to promote, just let me know! And if anyone is interested, I may even post my personal blog so you all can keep up with me through life!

This is not goodbye, I will never say goodbye. I will let you know if there are new blogs to come, but for now I want to keep the love and support going in this wonderful gradblr community! So thank you all again. You will forever hold a remarkable place in my heart.

#grad school #gradblr #phd #grad life #love #this is not goodbye #this is thank you #you all are amazing #I couldn't have done this without you #I love you very much #science #teaching #update #my life #i love this community #its the best #thank you #so much

Being a poster judge for a department function

#grad school #grad life #gradblr #phd #science #posters #judging #how the turntables #seriously though #this is so weird #being on the other side of things #I've done so many poster presentations #and now I get to judge #hisgs

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Trying to gather enough data for an abstract

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Throwback Thursday! Originally posted April 20, 2015

#tbt #throwback thursday #grad school #phd #grad life #gradblr #science #lab #research #abstract #writing #data collection #conference season #I hope you all are doing well!#I owe you all an explanation of where I've been #I will update you soon!#hisgs

(Treasure trove anon) also, I am the smol undergrad. UMass was awesome. Decided to do a masters/PhD in philosophy. Still love your blog xxxxx

OH MY GOD SMOL UNDERGRAD!

I’m so proud of you! Oh my goodness it feels so long ago! You’re amazing, I’m so happy for you! Seriously it makes me so happy that you’ve found something you love and get treasure troves out of it! You’ve made my day!

#seriously #my day is made #smol undergrad is now a treasure troving grad student!#I'm so proud #this is the best #I feel like all of this has come full circle #I'm so glad I started this blog and have been able to go through these journeys with everyone #<3 #Anonymous

In my first year I heard of a mythic, 34GB file filled with books on anything to do with philosophy. Three years later I'm at a philosophy conference and a postgrad called me over to his laptop, plugged a flash drive into mine and GAVE ME THIS KNOWLEDGE. FULL BOOKS THAT WOULD BE SELL-MY-FIRST-BORN EXPENSIVE!! I feel like Harry Potter finding the Half Blood Prince's potion textbook.