#academiaproblems

[geoscitruthbomb]

Paper Reading Day

[wanderlustfulmaniac]

Researchers: Ever got scooped?

So I got scooped out of one idea months ago, which I had no worry because it was a miscellaneous topic in my writing. Now, I got scooped of a major concept. How does anyone get around that? 

[shitwesaidabroad-blog]

Guess I'm gonna bullshit about the human experience for 2,000 words

Micky

[dreamsofamadgirl]

I have to pee, but the gender-neutral bathroom is in a building with a chemical alarm going off right now.

[thestorieswegive]

I'm so tired from thinking and thinking and not getting anywhere. I've never had so many thoughts that I couldn't express, that I couldn't make sense of; I've never had to come back from class and, not do homework, not study for an exam, but simply sit, think, and type. I have running Word documents of the tangents zooming in all different directions in my head, and the neverending connections that I'm making between classes, readings, and my own experiences; I hear all these different voices constantly arguing and self-editing each other. Professors, fellow students, the authors of the readings, other people and sources in my life that I look up to and respect- one overlapping the other. And as I stand amid the tempest, trying to sift through them all, I realize that I still don't have an understanding of what I'm supposed to, how I'm supposed to go out and take on the world's troubles, or even where I stand on them. But, the thing that remains most foreign and elusive is trying to figure out who on earth I am, and I don't even know where to begin.

Yes, it's frustrating, disillusioning at times, and confusing as hell. But oddly enough, I wouldn't have it any other way.