#TA or grad student or

[daydadahlias]

polo ash is so important to me personally

#his backpack strap 🥺 #god he’s giving assistant professor vibes I’m sorry #TA or grad student or #some academic #which is hilarious bc he’s almost 30 and doesn’t understand apostrophes #he’s a stem guy in this au im concocting 💙 not an English guy 💙 #he doesn’t need to know apostrophes #god he’s the man of my dreams #the beard #ash #navy #necklace #I spy his chest hair too 👁️👁️ #fluffy hairy guy #with the dimples #loml #ok I’ll shut up now it’s 1 am #I need to go to sleep but #I love him #never forget that

[shitacademicswrite]

#grad school #ta #teaching assistant #academia #grad student assistantships are indentured servitude

[sorryicantcomeovermypisaidno]

Things in Oppenheimer that made sense to me (as a scientist)

Nightmares of your thesis dance like sugarplums in your head

Scientists holding grudges longer than humanly possible

Admin to faculty- you think you’re better than me because you do research! Admit it!!! Faculty- I don’t think about you at all

Shutting down any attempts to unionize

The two types of wives male faculty have:

1) 50’s homemaker. Husband couldn’t pick his kid out of a lineup

2) Scientist they met in lab and now they are a 2 for 1 deal

Your family, horrified, this is how you are treated at work??? Yeah :( but it’s fine though :)

#oppenheimer #TA #gradblr #phd #research #academia #science #meme #stem #grad student #phd research #phdblr

[turtletoria]

this guy used to be a professor

#turtlearts #wordgirl #wg #dr two brains #steven boxleitner #hes a grad student in the second one #i honestly cant imagine him as a professor... he gives massive TA energy #or hed be a professor thats super chill with the students. i cant decide whether itd be funnier if hes the type of stem prof #that would give the most difficult exams or the most fair ones #leaning towards he writes fair exams but throws a couple curve balls in there and gets way too excited about the content #and is way too proud of himself on some of the questions he wrote #its finals season i am in exam mode <- trying so hard not to explode

[luobingmeis]

like. on the one hand. i get when my supervisors are like "be sure to be personable with your students in a way that still maintains the fact that u are the authority figure bc, since ur all young, it will be easier for them to not see u as a professional" but also. it is very funny when one of my students comes into the TA office, tells me that my undecorated desk is lame compared to the other desks, and then within 30 minutes is like "idk if ur the type of neurodivergent who [proceeds to say something that i absolutely do]" like. they clocked me! they got me there!

#also my hot take is that like. i am a 24 year old grad student teaching college freshmen. #i know where my strengths and weaknesses are and frankly i feel confident in maintaining my own professionalism #all while not forcing myself to act way older than i am #like my students still (relatively) listen to me #and none have tried. u know. being rude with me #(which i am thaknful for bc i have been hearing some horror stories from the other TAs) #so yeah it's funny when one of my best students is like ''hey jordyn ur desk is really lame compared to everyone else's'' #like frankly i'll worry abt being professor [x] when i have a master's #and dr [x] when i have a doctorate

[iam93percentstardust]

Share for bigger sample size and so on and such forth

#academia #alle vs grad school #this post is brought to you by a very tired TA who #without fail #every single exam has to deal with someone not turning off their phone and it going off incessently #and then i have to track it down and no really guys i'm so tired #there are 145 students taking this exam #why do you think you're the exception to the phone rule? #polls

[fantasy-costco]

Simultaneously hilarious and terrifying experience of an email chain slowly devolving in formality. Starts with a salutation and a sign off, two full paragraphs of communication. By the end of the email chain it's just 'great!! Thanks.' sent from my iPhone

#I never know how much to deescalate the formality by per email #Probably because no one has ever cared about it #Anyway! I'm going to grad school and I got offered a ta position 😊 #Which means lots of emails because I didn't actually apply to be a ta (didn't think I'd get in!) but one of #My favorite professors recommended me probably assuming I'd already applied #So I'm kind of doing everything backwards now #It's wild though! I'm First in family and academia still feels so alien to me #But I guess I'm better at it than I thought... #God please dont take this as bragging I have one thing that I'm good at and I think most grad students do some kind of assistantship right?

[the-sea-anemone]

on the one hand, i am very much a proponent of the "first draft doesn't have to be good, it just has to exist" strategy for writing but on the other hand i'm working on the second draft now and i am Suffering

#writing #writers #grad school #college #student #this is about my MA thesis but it applies to fiction too #also if you're an undergrad reading this i am telling you as a TA: edit your papers. i know it sucks but it helps so much i promise #if you only have time to edit one part it should be the intro #there should be a sentence in there you can stick “i will argue that” in front of and if there isn't you need to add one #this is your thesis statement and even if it's not the best the fact that you have one at all will make your profs and TAs very happy #i just finished marking papers sorry for the tag lecture

[astriiformes]

Every once and I while I think about the extremely cursed honors college abroad trip to Florence I was a part of my freshman year where many, many things went wrong by the end (including me skipping out on a trip to the Uffizi by pretending to be sick because the night before I'd found out one of the people I was planning on going with was a TERF) and most of the professors on the trip were really weirdly disdainful of students who were studying things other than the humanities (I would have loved to learn more about art history, had they actually wanted to teach those of us without the right background about art history!) but the one real highlight was an extracurricular trip I and a very small handful of other students signed up for to the Museo Galileo so the whole vibe was very

Oh, weird reliquary of Galileo Galilei's middle finger, we're really in it now.

#the expensive private university woes: get to go on a trip to italy mostly on the school's dime but the whole trip is haunted #like on the whole i'm still grateful to have had the opportunity to go but WHAT was going on with that trip #(the answer is mostly 'rich private school peers and chaperoning professors who were all the worst type of academics') #okay actually there was another similar highlight and it was me and the one very nice very tired grad student TA for my cohort #bonding over a shared appreciation of leonardo da vinci as a history of science guy and art history guy respectively #other than that though. shakes my professors at that school by the shoulders. for god's sake. learn how to be interdisciplinary

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#head instructor to the TAs in the lab section i TA for: how r u guys feeling abt the workload? #me who hasnt graded anything since week 1 and spent an hr that morning filling out a patient safety plan: 🙃 #listen. we r experiencing symptoms that make us shitty at our job. which is not helpful for a positive outlook #i was also experiencing horrible cramps at the time bc i lost my ibuprofen and 2 days ago i stopped the birth control in a desperate effort #to stop feeling terrible. but in this moment i feel alright. its wild to go from drastically unhappy to like lol wtf was that? anyway stop #being a bby loser. for no obvious reason. im gonna start the birth control again to see if i get depressed again or if that was just me lol #i dont think my therapist understands the depth of my executive functioning issues tho. bc im a grad student and can meet deadlines. like #let me tell u im a fucking disaster abt starting things. i will go back and forth and get nothing done forever. or i do things halfway and #make everything 30 times more difficult later bc no one else understands how my brain works #ah well. itll b fine. sometimes i just get freaked out that i wanna b better and i dont kno how to do that. so i spiral in despair a lil #ill b fine. im good at catching myself before i get too out of control. annoyingly tho i am not currently beating the bip0lar allagations #bc whatever tf is wrong with me i do probably fit the diagnostic criteria for bip0lar 2. i dont kno y that freaks me out so much. i guess #its bc it feels like something i cant just make better thru force of will and i grew up in a home that was very obsessively #health conscious to the point my dad gets anxious abt taking a single ibuprofen. so like ive been conditioned to get freaked out by #medication. literally my grandma will call me and tell me to b suspicious of doctors and to not take medicine unless absolutely necessary. #like lady u r the genetic reason i have 0cd shut the fuck up. also it feels like something that would more negatively affect how ppl think #of u than saying oh yea i get depressed or i have anxiety. like the connotation feels worse im used to just telling ppl whatever tf #my problem is. so the idea of holding something back feels weird. which annoys me bc i dont think there should b so much of a stigma. its #bullshit. anyway idk. im tired. i was trying to think of a comfort tv show with my therapist and all i could think was the terror #when im depressed i wanna watch those English mother fuckers suffer and die. i just lov that show so much. harry g00dsir my beloved. the #most me coded character to ever exist #unrelated

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

writing fanfic while i'm also working on my thesis is kind of funny now that i'm past the research/planning stage because every day i spend several hours writing. and then in the evening i unwind from that writing with more writing but fun this time

#writing #get home from the MA student office like now that i'm done writing about the horrors of stalinism it's time to put my guys in situations #also my non-TA job is doing audio transcription so it's basically all writing all the time #except the TA stuff which is mostly writing-free but i do have to grade like 45 written responses this week (they're very short dw) #i do actually like grad school i just also like complaining

[gay-victorian-astronomer]

I am in spain without the a

(incidentally I am also in spain without the s, because this is quantum theory and nothing makes any fucking sense)

#chattering #our TA is going to get a half-completed homework but oh well #hopefully she'll understand- we spent most of the weekend at the same grad recruiting events #(her as a current grad student & me as a prospective one) #I did the griffiths questions but I really can't be assed to figure out the one random sakurai question #and the other question that doesn't even have a source attributed to it (wtf is a projective measurement)

[tchaikovskaya]

I could/should elaborate when I’m not falling asleep as I am rn but like. I feel like for the people who you “mourn” who have died young and/or suddenly who you knew only in passing, or only casually interacted with, or were once close to but in the years between then and their death you barely spoke, etc etc etc, you arent actually mourning them or their presence in ur life (and now palpable absence) (supposedly) but just what it means to be a human on earth who has to grapple with inevitable loss and the immense weight of what a Person is and their footprint on everyone they interact with that is fleeting even tho there are several billions of us on the floating rock but none of those billions of lifetimes are ever overlapping 100%…. sigh :/

#context a student who graduated last semester (undergrad) died in a car crash like 500 miles away #and one of my fellow grad students/TAs and a few of his former profs are so upset about it and like……… #u barely knew this kid I mean of course I feel terrible that someone with his life ahead of him was snuffed out in the blink of an eye #but like…….. if u had never found out about this. or if this hadn’t happened and he went on to live a boring long life #he would mean next to nothing to u !!! u would be none the wiser! u would probz not even recognize his name in 10 years! why are u crying!!! #idk I would be less ANNOYED and hashtag BOTHERED by it if the same people didnt say such nasty derogatory shit about their undergrads #like every other time I talk to u about mundane news ur complaining about how ur students are all lazy untalented idiots #but now THIS ONE who was never meaningful to u before THIS GUY is SPECIAL to u…? u mourn him? #2 weeks ago if I showed u his student ID photo u would struggle to remember his name but NOW HE MEANS SOMETHING #NOW THAT HES GONE AND IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER ANYMORE NOW HE MEANS SOMETHING TO YOU #tldr if ur still reading lmao I feel like this stuff is always about yourself and almost never about the dead person #which is valid in its own way I mean I’ve literally cried after passing mangled cars and ambulances with people who defs aren’t gonna surviv #but it’s never been about their life’s overlap with mine and retconning some kind of memorable or emotional significance to it #idk why I’m so emotional about this in like 3 separate directions but it’s just so fucking frustrating !!!!!!! 🥲🤡

[the-yearning-astronaut]

.

#oh the longer i go without hearing from my preferred grad school #the more my heart sinks #especially since they usually have offer letters out by the end of Jan #AND they interview prospective students on their short list before they send those offer letters out #and im HOPING i haven't heard anything from them yet because the applications are taking longer to go through #idk #im trying to stay positive but its jan 26th and i haven't heard a thing #based on how upset i am just thinking about not getting in..... #if i get a condolences letter i sure hope it's on a day I don't have work #i just want to research titan and Enceladus 😭 #and i want to have a large enough stipened that I don't have to pick up a second job while also learning and researching and TAing lol #fuck im tired of being in limbo #☉ #tbd

[libraryleopard]

Adult revenge thriller

Scarlett is an English professor who moonlights as a serial killer targeting men who get away with abuse and assault and is preparing for her biggest kill yet

Carly is a first-year college student whose roommate is assaulted at a party and becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay

Bi representation

#highly recommend this is anyone who enjoys supporting women's wrongs #this was very engaging and has a great twist #absolutely tore through it #okay SPOILERS there was one thing i thought was kinda boring though #which is that scarlett is hypocritically having an affair with her grad student ta #despite targeting male professors who abuse their power in similar ways #and i actually liked that because it shows she's just a serial killer using revenge as a justification to kill #so i found it kinda boring when it turns out the ta is an evil stalker and she kills him #like it felt a little more nuanced before that #they never learn #layne fargo #there's a bit of an 'eyeliner sharp enough to kill a man' vibe (derogatory) #but i did find it very engaging and engrossing #books #2023 reads #lulu speaks #lulu reads #lulu reads they never learn

[octo-crafts]

[INSERT XKCD STRIP ABOUT GEOLOGISTS HERE] Trying to see if this is a case of (a) expert knowledge on my part or (b) different practices outside of the anglosphere

If you learned a different rule than novel titles are in italics, short story titles are in quotation marks, I would love to hear about it! And if you did learn the italics=novels, quotation marks=short story rule, feel free to mention when you learned it.

#octo vs grad school #for context I've written some variation on 'italicize the novel title' on at least half of my current batch of essays #and I really want to give these kids the benefit of the doubt #literature #books #writing #for further context i'm a TA for a first-year English writing course for basically everyone but the English majors #at a university with a relatively high proportion of international and/or non-anglophone students so cultural differences could well apply