#future PhD

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

you want a new kind of guy, fine, i raise you: the lady i was briefly roommates with in college who once smoked a blunt at a party and then spent an hour confessing earnestly to me that she genuinely preferred reading detailed episode recaps over actually watching the tv show in question

#she sounded so remorseful & i just stood staring like an anthropologist watching their phd thesis spontaneously manifest before their eyes #apparently she would watch the pilot episode to get a feel for the characters #and then just read a bunch of recaps & episode reviews instead of watching future episodes. what fresh steaming hell #this conversation took place like a year and a half after we were roommates btw. i had seen her maybe twice in that time period #i thought she was a standard frat girl but then 18 months later she appears in the wild grass to reveal unhinged character background to me #and i'm just standing there nodding feeling like i missed a weird opportunity i did not want or ask for #honestly thought i was the weirdest person in that apartment situation but now i'm wondering what our other 2 roommates were hiding #not my strangest college experience at ALL but like. definitely top 20 #this wasn't the same person as Aquarium Girl btw but oddly enough they were roommates actually #(not at the same time that Recaps Lady and i were roommates but at different intervals idk) #anyway i probably should have interviewed at more than one apartment before taking over a sublease but summer sess is a weird time u know #oh and this happened in Hong Kong btw

[peach-petrichor]

steven was bawling waterfalls when they told him about it

#steven universe #su #su future #steven universe future #peridot #lapis lazuli #lapidot #art #doodle #peridot proposed 17 times and 16 of those Lapis was disassociating and peri would act like nothing happened #it got so bad that at one point garnet proposed to lapis on peridots behalf because the gems couldnt STAND peirdots fumbling for 7 days #straight luckily lapis was high as fuk so it didnt really register to her #at the wedding day everyone was just so relieved they dont have to witness peridot phd in girlfailure trying and failing to propose anymore

[avonne-writes]

nerdy buck who loves libraries and math is so special to me

Libraries are so peaceful and quiet, and there are thousands of worlds at your fingertips, adventure and beauty and love... All of Gale's wishes in one place. 🩷

#mota #gale cleven #anon #nerdy gale #hs au gale is the nerdiest i love him so much #and ta au gale is doing his interplanetary physics phd #but i would love to see an actual library au #bucky works at the library? the coffee shop across from the library? #or bookshop au i would love that too #ideas to note for the future

[alexistudies]

jul 12

worked on an application essay in the courtyard yesterday and listened to the torrential downpour, very peaceful

[brain dump/vent about 1st year below]

my first year of grad school will be challenging in more ways than one and a true test of my time management. i expressed this concern to my soon-to-be PI and they told me to remember "the time where your grades matter has passed. just do the bare minimum to get credit for the class" and thats honestly helpful. like i know how to direct my attention for my coursework, and they also gave me tips on time blocking for lab, etc etc.

it'll be an adjustment and there will definitely be a rough transition period the first couple months, but i know i've got this. do you all have any tips??

#alexistudies #alexi does michigan #studyblr #studyspo #future gradblr #gradblr #stemblr #scienceblr #uniblr #collegeblr #beautyinmechanical #elkstudies #studiousliz #bumblebee study #mangostudies #smartblr #genspen #hey gen #phd student #phd studyblr

[unganseylike]

i made my first student loan payments😶 everyone be proud😶

#hey guys so im happy to announce i will be in debt for the rest of the foreseeable future👍🏼 #one down five million more to go #excited to make this better by getting paid shit for the next 15 years of my life while i get a phd #anyway . why does no one else i know have student loans

[winterf4iryy]

#genuinely genuinely so dystopian #i cant even comprehend how this isn’t what people are talking about 24/7 #the way people can go about their lives as normal #i feel like im going insane #not to mention people literally CHOOSING to be silent and not reshare stuff and just turn away from this #or worse say they’re uneducated and they don’t want to pick a side #like oh im sorry #get educated then? #also i didn’t know you had to have a pHD to know that a genocide is horrific and should never happen. #i thought we learned that in history class? #shame on all of you who aren’t using their platform right now #fuck you actually #wonder how you’ll tell people in the future that you were complicit in genocide and stood by #watching while it happened #free palestine 🇵🇸

[yuhenglesbian]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: One Piece (Live Action TV 2023), One Piece (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Monkey D. Luffy/Roronoa Zoro, Monkey D. Luffy & Roronoa Zoro, Monkey D. Luffy & Vinsmoke Sanji, Monkey D. Luffy & Nami & Roronoa Zoro & Usopp & Vinsmoke Sanji Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro, Nami (One Piece), Vinsmoke Sanji, Usopp (One Piece) Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, "What is god to a non-believer?" His captain, this follows OPLA canon, from episodes 1 to 6, I wrote this instead of doing my PhD Applications, it is extremely unformatted and minimally edited, but I haven't slept in 4 days so it will be what it will be, Feelings Realization, fic is in no way inspired or associated with the mitski song of it's title, My First One Piece Fic

  Summary:

"Roronoa Zoro has been a godless man – stubborn only in his insistence to not believe in anyone or anything. By all accounts, he knows he is the last person that divinity should ever deem worth their touch. And yet, he is the one to find it."

Or, Roronoa Zoro falls in love, and finds that that is all it takes for someone like him to devote his life to another person.

#one piece #one piece live action #opla #one piece zolu #opla zolu #opla zoro #opla luffy #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #roronoa zoro x monkey d. luffy #zolu fanfic #one piece fanfiction #there was no beta i was too tired and all my friends have jobs (so do i) #don't watch opla when you're supposed to do your phd applications @ future generations #they make me feel so insane i love them

[irelandseyeonmythology]

Not people asking Celticists to do critical editions of texts because they asked us nicely to.

I would love to edit and translate manuscripts all day long, on top of working as a teaching assistant, my side job in the field that also pays me, preparing conference papers for presentation, which often includes translating Latin, Middle Welsh, Old Irish, Early Modern Irish, and Modern Irish myself, even when scholars before me have translated them (to ensure that the nuances are captured), adapting those papers to Powerpoints, arranging accommodations and flights for said conferences, playing Stardew Valley, organizing conferences/conference panels, working on my phd, working on projects that are actually publishable in the field, plotting the next Fomoire invasion of Ireland, as well as my various and assorted commitments to different groups and organizations that I am also doing without pay in order to bolster my CV so that there is a snowball's chance in Hell that I have a shot at employment, while even more senior scholars in the field have to struggle to justify their translation work. It reminds me of an article on the Celtic Students blog that talks about how the overwhelming amount of public outreach in the field, at the moment, is done by Grad Students, yours truly included.

In these digital spaces, students of Celtic Studies (predominantly graduate students) carry the brunt of the public's attention, and work to amend persistent pervasive errors or misunderstandings (such as 'did the Celts really fight naked in battle', 'were the Celts really matriarchal', and 'why did Saint Patrick commit a genocide against the pagans') that have found themselves deeply rooted in public consciousness. These misunderstandings appear to have been perpetuated by the rise of the internet giving the public access to wildly out of date scholarly publications, the Wikipedia articles on medieval Celtic literature being deeply inaccurate, and a small cottage industry of people producing exceptionally inaccurate self-published books (and ebooks) about 'Celtic Mythology' that dominate digital marketplaces such as Amazon and the Kobo storefront. 

Despite this being important work, and entirely legitimate scholarly labor, it can be disheartening when this work is not recognized as legitimate or worthwhile by senior members of the field compared to standard scholarly activities.

#like it's a request but it's an inherently unreasonable one to ask of anyone #we KNOW there's a lot to be translated #we WANT to share it with the public #but we CAN'T #we're working on it as best as we can but we are GRAD STUDENTS #we are functionally amoebas in the field #amoebas with very uncertain futures #in a time when translation work isn't only long and tedious work #but also increasingly unfashionable #*I* wanted to do translation work for my PhD and I was basically told no #if you want me to do work that will not get me anywhere as far as my future career...pay me #per hour #Given that you're asking for the product of approximately 4-5 years of training I think that $25 is reasonable #Keeping in mind it can take me that long to translate a sentence...sometimes even a word #and of course in order to do a TRUE critical edition I'll need to see the manuscripts #which depending on if it's online or not means that you'll need to pay for my flights and accommodation in Dublin (most likely) #which if you know Dublin prices...*woo* #It's only a few thousand dollars or so #if it's that important to the public it's worth it

[linguenuvolose]

Got asked how I am and in bafflement I answered you know what? Good actually. I have been waiting (very impatiently) for things to slow down for so long now and I think they finally are. I feel like I finally have time to take care of myself and do my hobbies and meet my friends and it is wonderful

#no life changes no trips no holidays in the near future #in March I will maybe have to make a decision on if I want to do a phd but like that’s a maybe #work honestly feels fine at the moment I could stay here another year #I’m not feeling the intense need of wanting to leave that I did this fall #I’m feeling more experienced knowledgeable appreciated #it’s good #snicksnack #I’m always just ‘fine I guess’ so it’s nice to feel like this

[pendraegon]

me, white knuckling, staring at myself in the mirror: you will not let yourself slip and fall this year mentally. you will be fine. you now know the academic culture here as well as the cliques and the politics of your department and who-is-who and who-you-have-to-impress and who-you-need-on-your-side and you also know what the general environment and climate does to you and your psyche and how fucked up it made you. you will be fine. you have better vanguards now that you know. even if you do fall off, it's okay, because you'll know the signs this time round. you'll be back home during fall and winter break and spring break and then soon you'll graduate. you can make it through this. you have always made it through everything. you can do this because that's all you can do. you will be fine because you've lived through this once. you can live through it again, i am telling you to live through it again. you can be better but if you're not that's okay too. all you can do is forge ahead. all you can do is shut up and walk. you can do this. you got this. you got this. you did it once before. let's give everyone a fucking encore.

#is it bad to say that this is actually pretty good for me in how i process and deal with things that freak me out asldfjaslkdfas #anyways. grad school woes. u know. #it's like i'm down that same road again that i was on in undergrad when everyone knew what they were doing with their life but me. what am #gonna do after i graduate my program? stay in school and go for a phd? work industry? what do i even want? of course i know but it's not #feasible or viable. oh my god. the looming future. whatever. whatever. im too old to be like this oh my god. alskdjflasdmfas

[just-anka]

Hello tumblr! Once again it's been a while. I deleted the tumblr app off my phone a while ago (along with instagram) because I was spending way too much time and energy scrolling mindlessly, and I've been feeling a lot better that way. I do still occasionally check on people on the browser version haha but I miss posting on here and collecting all these little details of my life, so maybe I'll come back a bit more again. Idk.

Anyway, work is still a lot - I'm in the final six months of my PhD now and I'm really, really ready to get this thing done so I'm just working as hard as I can right now. It actually feels good to really put my focus into it and just do my best to take care of myself otherwise instead of always pushing everything at once. I do miss having more time and energy for other things, but when I try to work my hardest at work, skiing/climbing/cycling and writing all at once I just get burnt out, and after two years of essentially killing myself with all the things I wanted and did, it's been nice taking it a bit slower now. I haven't skied anywhere near as much this winter as I did the past two years, but that's okay. I'm finally starting to feel some psyche for running again - been a very long time since that fire has truly been there and I'm just enjoying it right now, even though I'm not running anywhere near as much as I used to. And I'm having a lot of fun climbing without trying to push too much. So it's all good.

Ben took three months of unpaid leave this winter to do a ski season and compete in freeride competitions, which was pretty awesome and I'm so happy he got to do that. It meant we spent most of the winter apart though, so when he came back last week I decided to take a few days off so we could spend some time together. All pretty last minute but we found this incredibly nice cosy airbnb chalet, in one of the most beautiful areas of our mountains that I've ever been to, and had a perfect mini holiday. Had lots of fun skiing and ski touring, but also resting and eating nice food and sitting by the wood stove and playing boardgames and catching up on time together. I came back feeling a lot better mentally, and more ready to give my all for work again.

#personal #mini update #skiing #ski #ski mountaineering #mountains #val d'anniviers #future home? #my mountains #valais #switzerland #skier #girls who ski #climbing #climber #life update #phd stuff #academia #zurich #ben

[goldenstarprincesses]

I know that team work is like the core of what academia is but holy fuck this group I'm in for the end of the semester research paper is horrific

Zero communication from anyone and then they threw a bunch of crap onto the doc the night before it was due. Said they are both done despite everything they did looking terrible lamo swear to God I am this close to sending an email to the professor to ask just to be graded on my portion

#guys don't put to much hope onto the nations future urban planners and city policy makers cus it is looking ROUGH #not hetalia #academia #grad school #phd

[ephemeral-winter]

grad school acceptance szn has me opening up my old master's apps to reassure myself that i will be able to do the thing again when the time is right but let me tell you. the jumpscare of opening the essay that got me into my last program and seeing that i started off by quoting a TUMBLR POST. well.

#note for future self writing phd apps: do not do this #congrats loamvessel i hope you were more sensible than me in your apps #rare pic of me in the wild

[bright-and-burning]

brocedes

makes sense deeply deeply deeply compels me.

i’m not up on the lore simply bc there is So Much Of It and it’s not quite ongoing so there’s less of a Need for me to get up to date right this second but listen.

as a queer woman* who had a homoerotic codependent friendship as pre-teen w my best friend (who did not like girls until me) turned codependent year+ long relationship as we grew up turned toxic competitive nightmare where i got cheated on that literally shook up my entire life path. im like yeah they get it. lol.

#asterisk on woman bc gender is goofy as fuck LOL #shoutout to redacted for um. being the entire reason i am where im at rn #bc otherwise i wouldve gone to the local university finished in two years and been a history or math teacher in my hometown lol #getting cheated on and breaking up w her was the impetus to realize i could be a whole lot more #and that i could aim for silly things like ivy leagues and phds and so on #not that being a teacher is less. but i was kind of resigned to my future being this circle of the people i encountered #in my inner city schooling lol. and growing up in the rust belt being a teacher was kinda a ceiling #so to have my life completely flipped upside down and shoved out of my comfort zone #i was like wait i actually Can be anything . lol #ask #ask meme

[smute]

so im moving back home next month to save some money during my last semester of grad school, and as grateful as i am for even having that option, a not so small part of me is very scared that it may turn out to be... not quite as temporary as i am currently hoping it will be🙂

#i am looking forward to getting rid of this expensive apartment #and im just extremely grateful that i get to have a little grace period #where i dont have to worry about making rent for a little while #but im also wondering if i might be putting myself in a situation that will potentially be very difficult to... well. escape #my financial situation is less than ideal #(thats a euphemism) #the interest rate on my student loan has exploded since last year #(up from 3.7% last september to 8%. yes. eight per cent. i actually had to increase my monthly payouts just to cover the interest payments) #and its forcing me to rethink all of my plans #for the future #rn its looking like that might be the final nail in the coffin for my phd plans #(just as i was starting to get over my impostor syndrome too) #so. what the hell do you do with 2 english degrees when you suddenly cant afford to do the one thing those degrees are actually good for? #the answer is not a whole lot #finding another place to live in the near future will be harder than ever #and as much as i love my parents #i cant stay with them for more than a year #i will lose my mind #or what little is left of it lol #so yeah #the sky seems awfully dark all of a sudden #ill be fine once they take me out back and shoot me etc etc #but anyways #just a little life update i guess #do me a favor and ignore this #i dont think i can handle any sympathy rn #and i definitely cant handle any antipathy lmao #i just needed to get this out #tbd

[astrxealis]

hiii :333 i think i am alive !! ( small update in da tags )

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #WOOOAGHHHHH HAVENT BEEN HERE IN AGES. WOW> #sorry guys im a straight a student in their senior year of hs... i have been enjoying real life ^_^ i miss it here tho. :( #will be active soon bcs school is gna end. fucking sobbing but we don't talk abt that #i am here instead of working on the uh. 2 group presentations i need to work on. and the 1 Solo presentation............. #which is crazy btw bcs it's a whole research event thing bcs im in stem ^_^ closing remarks heehaw. Just Me. #so i'm proud of myself & for better understanding myself lately but there is still sm i want to do!!! like On here <3 #in a much better headspace and life and etc. its good yay. #anyway hashtag wanna be an astrophysicist (a+ physics? ez. but also ive always loved math & astronomy) astronomer musician #author video game dev (future compsci student! or physics. still deciding.) uhhh psychologist philosopher blablabla phd one day #yay ^__________^ I MISS WRITING ON HERE THO and interacting w moots :P altho idrk how to get back into that shit #anywhere really but it's ok we find ways. man. i miss it here. before i get active again tho i should rlly makes lists to do and Fix stuff. #bye for now yay just a lil update from me !!! ^_^ it's been at least... 4 months? bcs i rmbr not properly saying happy new year on here HEL #raaaaaaaaaaaaa apollo is so back babaey the world is so beautiful & so am I. anyway. u all take care mwamwamwa