#thisispotato

[potatostartsaphd]

I haven't been very active on this side blog, so here are some PhD updates!

I did a research fellowship abroad in 2022 <3

I'm having to take an extra year :(

My data analysis skills are super shitty

One paper is under review right now

Written nearly 20k words of my thesis, and writing more

My supervisor is retiring but she'll be around till I submit my thesis

I need to redo some PCR (fucking hell)

Still unemployed :-{

[potatostartsaphd]

Sooo I submitted my lil bby research article a month ago, and it was rejected because I left in an abbreviation in the abstract (against rules). I missed that somehow and its ok that it got rejected on that basis but oh boy, the editor went on and on about how my abstract was all sloppy so he couldn’t possibly send it to reviewers and other text was “verbose and redundant” and he “couldn’t see the novelty of it” and ok you douche how do you explain all the other published articles in your journal that have similar themes to mine being all verbose and having similarly “sloppy” abstracts and reiterating info that has already been confirmed? 

//rant over.

Sorry, this is really petty but I had to let out my frustration somewhere. I’m sad but I guess I have to grow a thicker skin :/ 

[potatostartsaphd]

I haven’t been able to focus at all on my work, on all the papers I’m supposed to read and write. Honestly, all I did this week was nothing.

Last week, I managed to watch most of the Captain America/Avengers movies. So sometimes, I can accomplish what I want. It’s just....too much to focus on the things that require effort. I came home and slept my ass off for the first time in months.

[potatostartsaphd]

I’ve been watching all the captain america/avengers movies I just can’t stop

*ignores all the looming deadlines*

[potatostartsaphd]

I only started uni in october, so there’s not much going on these days. But I am already feeling sTRessEd tbh

[potatostartsaphd]

yo folks, how you doing?

This is me and I’m a potato and I shall document my life attempting to get a phd in zoology. 

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Sadly, Mouth ate Cookie before their first date...