#gradventures

[literaetures]

as of an hour ago i’ve passed my first qualifying exam and i’m officially a phd candidate!!

and it feels so good to know that all the pain and frustration and anger and tears for the first three years of grad school have been worth it they were all for Something bc today!! today i passed!!

i passed!! just call me phd candidate literaetures

[psychedaboutstudying]

18.09.20 • These papers are my to do list for today. A little ambitious, because my attention span is gone at the end of a hectic week.

[neverlandsystem]

So my Gradventure is in a few months,and I like to plan things early,sooo I already started making a list of foods to try because this is only my second time going to Universal studios and Islands of Adventure. Any have any foods I should add to the list?

This is the list so far

[hydraxx]

introducing myself to colleagues: i’m a linguist! :)

studying for exams: i’ve never seen a lingy stick in my life

[peppermintfeather]

Update: it hurts to tell people that I officially can’t eat sunflower seeds. I grew up with Hamtaro, this physically hurts.

[this-iswhywefight]

note to self: sometimes the forest will make you feel way better about your skills than the trees

[literaetures]

i'm officially!! officially!! done with my last final for my last semester of coursework and i don't know if i'm going to feel some type of way about this next semester when i realize i won't take another class ever again but the idea!! the concept!! that i will never have to write up another final paper ever again!!! euphoric

[literaetures]

i just finished my last class i'll ever take for my phd and i don't know how to feel about it!! next semester will be the very first semester i will not be taking a class and in so, so, so many ways i'm going to miss it. it feels weird knowing that i won't be learning something from a professor or a teacher in a classroom setting. and maybe it's too soon to know for a fact if it's a relief and something i'm ready for or if it's a terrifying to consider and i want to do anything in my power to sit in a class again bc i still have to write up my final papers and i still have to make it to the end of the semester, but either way i know i'm standing close to the edge of something, running towards something and i don't know what's on the other side of it. and it's terrifying and exhilarating and melancholic all at the same time

and i don't know what i'll do or how i'll feel or who i will be once i cross that finish line and it truly sinks in that i won't be in another classroom as a student ever again