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i thought i would finish my phd by the summer of this year but my advisor and i had discussed that if i didn't get any academic job offers that it might be worthwhile to stay another year (or at least past the summer) to beef up my CV and make me a more desirable / competitive candidate for next fall's job market but we hadn't really decided, but i just met with him this morning and he said it would be better for me to stay past this year and like. even though i recognize the rational benefits of it and i shouldn't worry about winning "The Race" i still feel somewhat dejected, like i am never going to complete this fucking degree

#i feel a lot of shame about how long it's taken too. i thought going in that i'd be done in 6 years because that was the normative time #and i've always been such a neurotic high achiever etc. etc. and then i got TRAUMATIZED! lmao #it doesn't seem to matter how much i comfort myself or how much i remind myself that The Race doesn't exist or that this is an impressive #feat irrespective of how long it takes or that i suffered something severe and to have stayed in the program despite that is commendable #or whatever. it still feels as disillusioning and shameful as it always has #i just didn't want to be one of these people who took eight years and now i will finish in my eighth year. and it feels like a failure even #though that feeling is almost entirely rooted in how other people would PERCEIVE my trajectory rather than what i know to be the reality #i guess it just feels like all of my professors saw this highly capable 22 y/o with so much potential to be the kind of political scientist #they wanted or they value and over the years as i've aged and gained experience i realize i want to be a different kind #(read: teaching- rather than research-focused). but it still feels like i've disappointed them i guess #the academic job market is SOOOOO bad right now too; obviously it is bad universally but so many universities instituted hiring freezes due #to funding cuts. so it's like: new! already cutthroat and arbitrary process -- now with additional obstacles!#anyway this is melodramatic maybe WHATEVER!!!! back to google docs #rad school

workspace: august 18th, 2020, 9:35 AM

finally settled into the new haven apartment. guess i should resurrect this blog and start reading again...?

#yale #personal #workspace #phd #rad school #the password to our wifi is stanleytucci it's all feeling very real now

be an early modernist

#john donne #early modern lit #rad school

used my lunch break yesterday to graduate from my masters, i.e. walking over to uni & into the grad office, showing photo id and then being given this and told “uhhh.... congratulations” (because i’m graduating out of session & don’t want to wait til july for a ceremony since i technically had enough credit to do this last july or last december)

low key to say the least, so will try and take some time this weekend to actually process this achievement 🎓

#rad school

it’s 3am but my draft is done!!!

it’s the 4th version of the first draft of my paper but most of the hard work is done so now I’m waiting on my co-authors to tear me to shreds lol

oh well

anyways I’m DONE FOR NOW woohoo!!!!

#rad school #jk still in undergrad #scientific publication #text #steministstudies #help #personal

After five years of heard work, I finally made it. Today was my first day of my dietetic internship. Like I’m! A! Dietetic! Intern!

#and my first real day of grad school was yesterday #like classes and stuff!#this life is wild wild wild #rad school

How to Start Your Masters Applications

Ah yes, August - the month equivalent Sunday for academics. A lot of my friends are starting their applications and realising they don’t actually know where to start, so here’s the advice I’ve been giving them.

(also i’m no expert i’m just a lady who did this last year)

1. Make a list: So much of my advice for applying to grad school involves lists, and the very first one to make is a list of the schools where you might want to go. In the end, you might not apply to all of them, but it is just a place to start. For each school you are interested in, write down all of the requirements and what documents each school requires you submit. This is important because some schools require a proposal and a personal statement, some require one or the other, and some require you to combine both into one page. Include links to the instructions each school provides for each component that you have to write!

2. Write your longest proposal first: This is easier said then done, but writing the longest proposal (in my experience it was 2 pages) allowed me to have a base to work from for all the rest. Then, for each school, you can take the parts you need for that application and just add the specific things each school needs. If you’re applying for your MA in Canada, your longest proposal will probably be you SSHRC CGS-M proposal, which is conveniently due the earliest as well.

3. Be cognisant of (fake) deadlines: These deadlines will seem like they are a million years away, but they’ll sneak up on you. Specifically, there is a rule of thumb that you should allow a potential reference a month of time to write you a letter, so write that deadline down. By that date, over a month before your deadline, you should have something resembling a proposal to send to your potential references.

4. Workshops at your uni: Likely, your university will have a lot of faculty-wide as well as department-wide workshops for applying to your Masters and related funding. They’re definitely useful (especially the department-specific ones) but do not wait for them to start your stuff. For instance, one of the workshops I attended was set a week before the deadline of a major funding opportunity, which would be essentially useless if I hadn’t already known about the scholarship.

5. Find a mentor: Ideally a professor or upper-level graduate student who knows the insides and outsides of your country’s system of graduate school. My mentor was a professor of mine (also a reference) and she was full of useful information because she chaired my university’s graduate funding committee. Don’t be afraid to ask for help from professors, especially regarding your proposal. The worst thing they can say is no.

Good luck, future academics! May the funding gods smile on you and the application seas be gentle.

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