#phd life

[howsoonitwasover]

25.03.26. spring phd diaries: baking, reading, writing, & lots of coffee

[tizian-a]

quiet week on campus

[penandpaper-love]

February 18, 2026

My week off is nice so far, could be better but it's nice. I am still trying to recover from last week and I even started a little painting. I just don't know why life feels like constant work since I'm an adult?! Hahah

[melancholyromantic]

I tried to work through the bank holiday, but my cat had other ideas

[booksstudiesandteaa]

actually got some work done in the grad office today & i cleaned my apartment when i got home!

i also gave a lecture today on echo chambers and it went alright. i don't think teaching is for me though :')

☕️ ~ planning to finish the night with a short swedish lesson for fun <3

[greens-your-color]

📚 diss work 4.25.26

feeling very “this is the first day of my life” at the moment. today is the day i start working on my dissertation, rather than my prospectus or working-on-preparing-to-work on my dissertation.

probably also the last hot coffee of the season. it’s cool and rainy, but not so cold that i can’t sit outside and listen to the rain on the awning.

🎧 - “right on time,” brandi carlisle

[g-inspirationstudies]

Life lately: working @ office, philosophy seminars and readings, writing literature review for my dissertation, doing French h/w. I’ve also sent abstract of presentation for one conference in April and I need to send theses for another conference (due at the end of February). So a lot of work. But I feel better now as I try to do some diss work after my office work.

[doll-on-a-music-b0x]

That's officially a wrap on my coursework portion of my PhD!! 4.0 across all semesters: fall, spring, and summer.

It was simultaneously one of the hardest and most rewarding two years of my life. The next three years will be full of independent study, coffee, pondering, walks in the woods, and candle-lit writing sessions. I can't wait!