#grad school

[mudwisard]

my trick for getting through grad school is learning to navigate the quadrants with all their nuances

[dragon-in-a-fez]

during my dissertation proposal hearing one of my advisors said "I think you might have been too harsh in your criticism of this theory" and I genuinely, innocently asked "what makes you say that?" and he said "well on page 27 you used the phrase 'should be consigned wholesale to the dustbin of history'" and I was like oh. yeah I guess I did that. fair

[academicfeverish]

10/30

[shitacademicswrite]

Going to grad school, I see

[reportsfromordinary]

what’s in my bag (plus a curious guest)

[lunafay]

I’m running out of bookshelf space

[smart-macademia]

the key to surviving grad school (also maybe life but definitely grad school) is to pick a side quest every few months or so. something that brings you joy and that you can get better at over time, independent of whether or not your research or classes are going well. put your need for academic validation to use in a non-academic setting and everything will feel less dire and you will learn you are more than your work

[kipxan]

being in academia and as a result having your email publicly available doesn’t have many perks but one of them is that every now and then i get an email from a new iteration of this guy