masters in library & information sciences

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[katmarelstudies]

07.15.25

Had my call with my interim advisor (who also happens to be the director of the program 😵‍💫)

It went well. He gave me an overview of the program and explained how my courses will be laid out (asynchronous, two courses a semester + summer) and that I’ll have to complete an e-portfolio by the end of the last term.

As of today my expected graduation date is summer 2027.

Time will pass anyway, might as well get a degree.

[katmarelstudies]

Well team, you’re never gonna believe it:

I am starting my masters this fall!

I will be pursuing my masters in library and information science. Not sure which concentration I want to go into yet. Very pumped. Hope you’ll stick around to see what happens.

[katmarelstudies]

Guess who graduated 👩🏻‍🎓📜❤️

I officially have an English degree. Thank you for coming along on this wild ride. Perhaps I’ll see you all again here one day.

In the meantime, you can follow my main blog @katherinemarieelizabeth or my “main” side blog @thedreadfullygrim

[katmarelstudies]

My last week of school starts Tuesday and then I am done!!!!!!!

[katmarelstudies]

Guess who is officially on winter break!

I have one week left of school once I return and then I graduate 👩🏻‍🎓😭😵‍💫. It’s crazy to think that this journey will be over so soon!

I started looking into masters programs but I don’t know what I want to do yet, so that’s fun.

Anyways, I hope you all have a happy holiday and get to enjoy some time off!!!

[katmarelstudies]

Hi hi hi!

As of today, I have 10 weeks left before I graduate! 2 more courses and then I am done. For now.

My last class and my current class are lighter work wise, so I’ve been more like myself lately. Which is nice, but also a little sad to say out loud.

Also because it’s autumn I’ve been knitting again!!! And I actually started reading a book. The first book I’ve willingly read all year. And yes, it’s fourth wing.

Ok that’s all for now bye!!!!!!!

[katmarelstudies]

hello again 👋🏻

I am currently in my last week of my creativity class—which means it’s time to catch up on some last minute work!

Here’s what’s on the docket:

• week 5 paper

• week 4 paper

• week 1 paper

• discussion response(s)

I start my next class on Tuesday (storytelling, very excited) and I’m exploring a potential future career in tech (either QA or software engineering, I’m not sure yet) which means I’ve been reading up on python, c#, GitHub, etc. And my brother wants me to help him build a website so 🙃

Here’s to hunkering down and getting all my work done by Tuesday so I don’t have to stress over it anymore !!!!!!!!!!

[katmarelstudies]

as of 3:30 pm, 9/11– I have compiled the sources needed for my week 5 paper, which still needs to be written alongside the others. I am tired. It’s going to be a long night but I know it will be worth it to get it all done and over with.

[katmarelstudies]

✔️my week 5 paper is done, although it’s 500-ish words too short. Submitted anyway.

✔️ Discussion responses are done.

✔️ Team project eval that I forgot to mention.

In progress: week 4 paper — 265/700 words

I am going to say that it was the weird bug I caught that stopped me from getting it all done tonight, but I got my largest paper out of the way and hey—3/5 ain’t bad.

I will get the rest done tomorrow.

[katmarelstudies]

✔️ Week 4 paper

✔️ week 3 paper

I AM DONE YAY!!!!!!

[katmarelstudies]

hello again 👋🏻

I am currently in my last week of my creativity class—which means it’s time to catch up on some last minute work!

Here’s what’s on the docket:

• week 5 paper

• week 4 paper

• week 1 paper

• discussion response(s)

I start my next class on Tuesday (storytelling, very excited) and I’m exploring a potential future career in tech (either QA or software engineering, I’m not sure yet) which means I’ve been reading up on python, c#, GitHub, etc. And my brother wants me to help him build a website so 🙃

Here’s to hunkering down and getting all my work done by Tuesday so I don’t have to stress over it anymore !!!!!!!!!!

[katmarelstudies]

as of 3:30 pm, 9/11– I have compiled the sources needed for my week 5 paper, which still needs to be written alongside the others. I am tired. It’s going to be a long night but I know it will be worth it to get it all done and over with.

[katmarelstudies]

✔️my week 5 paper is done, although it’s 500-ish words too short. Submitted anyway.

✔️ Discussion responses are done.

✔️ Team project eval that I forgot to mention.

In progress: week 4 paper — 265/700 words

I am going to say that it was the weird bug I caught that stopped me from getting it all done tonight, but I got my largest paper out of the way and hey—3/5 ain’t bad.

I will get the rest done tomorrow.

[katmarelstudies]

hello again 👋🏻

I am currently in my last week of my creativity class—which means it’s time to catch up on some last minute work!

Here’s what’s on the docket:

• week 5 paper

• week 4 paper

• week 1 paper

• discussion response(s)

I start my next class on Tuesday (storytelling, very excited) and I’m exploring a potential future career in tech (either QA or software engineering, I’m not sure yet) which means I’ve been reading up on python, c#, GitHub, etc. And my brother wants me to help him build a website so 🙃

Here’s to hunkering down and getting all my work done by Tuesday so I don’t have to stress over it anymore !!!!!!!!!!

[katmarelstudies]

as of 3:30 pm, 9/11– I have compiled the sources needed for my week 5 paper, which still needs to be written alongside the others. I am tired. It’s going to be a long night but I know it will be worth it to get it all done and over with.

[katmarelstudies]

hello again 👋🏻

I am currently in my last week of my creativity class—which means it’s time to catch up on some last minute work!

Here’s what’s on the docket:

• week 5 paper

• week 4 paper

• week 1 paper

• discussion response(s)

I start my next class on Tuesday (storytelling, very excited) and I’m exploring a potential future career in tech (either QA or software engineering, I’m not sure yet) which means I’ve been reading up on python, c#, GitHub, etc. And my brother wants me to help him build a website so 🙃

Here’s to hunkering down and getting all my work done by Tuesday so I don’t have to stress over it anymore !!!!!!!!!!

[katmarelstudies]

Oh look, I’m alive

I have about 30 weeks left (it’s actually exactly 30 weeks today!) of my school year and then I graduate!!! 👩🏻‍🎓

after that, who knows! I’ve been debating if I want to pursue a masters degree and I’m torn between continuing in English or doing something nuts and going for interior design 🫠

[katmarelstudies]

Hi everyone!

Has anyone here attended (or is currently attending) an Ivy League for their graduate program? Specifically along the lines of an MFA in an English/lit program?

I am looking into grad schools and I’d like to go Ivy League but I’m curious as to how rigorous the programs are or what I should expect.

I’d also like any tips for the application process you may have!

Thank you in advance, kind strangers.

[bookcub]

who wants to try a booklr game? it's an experiment.

since it's the end of the year, I will start my asking an end of the year book question and then when you reblog, answer the question and then add another book question for other rebloggers to answer.

those are the only rules, everything else is open to interpretation!!

my question: what was your favorite fictional romance you encountered in books you read in 2022?

[katmarelstudies]

Ok, this is a judgement free zone.

It’s Aehako and Kira from IPB3. He calls her “sad eyes”! !!!! (I honestly swooned every time he said it) And he truly loved her for her, not for the weird “mate” thing. I definitely consider it to be friends-to-lovers and I loved every second of it.

My question: what book surprised you the most in 2022? (Like, you expected it to be bad and it was actually good or vice versa)

[katmarelstudies]

I am officially in my last year!

🥳

yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine

[persephonesidekick]

The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.

[runecestershire]

[runecestershire]

So I’m more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.

Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and he’s not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain he’s got all the facts.

Except once he thinks he has all the facts – once he’s certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.

That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop

[daimonie]

i met a scholar once who said that tragedies aren’t about a silly “flaw” or anything, it’s about having a hero who’s just in the wrong goddamn story

if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldn’t be duped by any of iago’s shit, he’d sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, they’re both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now we’ve got all these bodies to bury.

[whopooh]

The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong goddamn story.

I love this post.

[haunted-hideaway]

Feels

[vr-trakowski]

I believe the artist is Katy Doughty.  

[modmad]

Here’s a link to Katy’s tumblr!

[saltforge]

This is half an MFA right here.

The tropes are always hungry and the tragic hero is just somebody trapped in the wrong damn story.

[noxelementalist]

“The tropes are always hungry and the hero is trapped in the wrong story.” is a phrase I want made into a gorgeously designed giant poster I can hang on the wall.

[dignitywhatdignity]

@shitpostsampler

[shitpostsampler]

[personalrandomspace]

Good news you all. Various people did indeed designed the tropes are hungry stickers or shirts and are selling them on redbubble @motherfuckingshakespeare

[probuccalfat1]

the almost contentious but intimate relationship between a woman and the book she’s been trying to read for a year

[katmarelstudies]

Small life update:

I am not out of a job! And I am currently in week ~4 of my writing for social media class (which is more difficult than I anticipated).

I managed to read 4 books so far this month, but that number should be around 8 by the end of the week.

I started knitting a blanket.

I have progressed in my French course—c’est très bien!

I go on winter break next week!

I hope you all have happy holidays and safe travels!