#phd things

[soloorganaas]

-submit research trip funding application by department deadline -formal approval delayed by three weeks despite being pre-approved before application -send 6000 emails begging for literally any information on delay and get almost no response -do not sleep for ten days straight from stress -trip is only confirmed five (5) days before flying -costs hundreds extra in flights and hotels -admin have audacity to ask for earlier application submission in future (it was submitted by the deadline) to allow time for discussion before approval (it was already discussed and approved) and avoid stress (i am the one stressed) -SCREAM

[naruthirnith]

everybody cheer, my supervisors like my abstract and seem really happy with my progress recently

[splatterscrawl]

Question marks and exclamations. Feeling a great fondness for the person who borrowed this book before me.

📖 The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard

[model-theory]

Haven't wanted to talk about it until I can confirm things, but I've been given a scholarship to do my PhD in Leeds! It's amazing the money that people find once you get a distinction

[twistedrunes]

Diagnosis, Academia

I laugh, hysterically

Others eye me warily

Always been a little odd

And now this noise - Oh My God!

Through the tears I try to speak

And give them answers that they seek

My thesis, she's due in sixteen days

Am I stressed? Let me count the ways

This morning when I sat down to work

My reference file, it was a jerk

It said it was corrupted

Would not do as instructed

A panic it did grip me

So, so much anxiety

Crazily my heart did pound

In my head a whooshing sound

And then, a flash of inspiration

A backdoor operation

With a few keystrokes I sneakily,

Brought my references back to me!

The end of my hysteria

Thank the Gods of Academia

Regaining my composition

I return again to my submission

- TwistedRunes 2021 🤍

[naruthirnith]

Bullying my past self and removing huge chunks of a 15,000 thesis chapter because what was I thinking with some of this

[naruthirnith]

doing transcription work today and yes medical doctors had bad handwriting in the 1890s if you were wondering

[naruthirnith]

9,000 ish words done on my PhD thesis, that’s like 10%