#kvediary

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My finest fruit tart pattern yet >:)c

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staff loot get >:)c

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probably should not have made my debut into attempting ux/ui a ~6hr hackathon. my team tried making an interview practice app (on a platform none of us had used before xD..)!

Apply for that job like you’re a mediocre white male!

Apply! Always apply. And when you do, picture the overprivileged little fratbro who is also applying to the job, and write your CV with his overweening confidence in mind. Beat that fratbro like a dirty carpet.

You should totally apply because you’re awesome and Brown would be lucky to have you.

Those intellectually incestuous bastards need someone to freshen up the gene pool, if they think the two-body problem is bad wait till they see the academic equivalent of the three thumbs problem. They should be grateful for your homespun wisdom.

do it do it do it! they’re really nice at brown; i doubt they’d reject a great candidate just for ivy pride bs

Do it. True fact: people will look at applicants with only 60-80% of the requirements for any job description. If you meet at least that percentage of the requirements, apply!

APPLY TO THE JOB AT BROWN. I just met with my advisor today and she reminded me that it CANNOT HURT YOU TO APPLY. But nothing will happen if you don’t roll the dice!

DO IT! Providence is a really nice place to live, and most programs should love to see apps from people who can bring in new experience/perspective. Help us overthrow the old guard!

[ifeelbetterer]

*I* would love to overthrow the old guard. However, first I need to get the old guard to hire me. :(

I disagree slightly. I feel like every application costs a little bit of my soul. I’m having trouble finding my motivation again for a third job search. :(

I wish that was how it worked in academia. This is a buyer’s market, though, and I know of dozens and dozens of hugely qualified people not get anything year after year. If a university wants a specialist in mid-19th Century Ecology and Animal Studies literary scholar, at least twenty whose dissertations were *exactly* that will apply.

Really? I have trouble not thinking they would absolutely reject a non-Ivy. Ivies produce waaaay too many candidates and tend to hire only from within that pool. The rest of the Ivies--the ones they are producing but won’t have jobs for--are therefore flooding the lower levels of the job market, pushing people like me further down the line.

This actually made me gigglesnort. High five for the three thumbs problem.

Awww, thanks hun. *hugs*

This is very motivating. I might put this note on a post-it and have it on my screen while I work on job materials.

Ha! I love you guys.