Throwing a paper together just days before a conference, the grad student rides a turbulent wave of shame and exhilaration.
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Someone hints they don't like Phee Genoa on the internet: "SOUND THE BANNERS! MARCH AT DAWN! PROTECT HER!"
Someone hints they don't like Trace and Rafa Martez on the internet: ::crickets::
As someone who works closely with the Latinx community in my city and is deeply involved in it as a neighbor and academic, I'm so incredibly disappointed that there is not the same amount of protection and defense for the Martez sisters. This is especially for Trace, who I think is adorable.
A curly-haired sassy bright working class gearhead who ends up accidentally being a hero? Come on. She's Caylee from Firefly. We need more people like her.
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cant believe my white girl breakdown will now be a part of my academic production
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How much outdoor experience did you have BEFORE choosing Geoscience as a major? Poll Results and Analysis
Despite total response at 67 people, I think the curve is very interesting. Traveling and being outdoors does seem to be a reason people choose geology.
If I could run the poll again with a larger sample size, I would include Year of Graduation (if possible), to see if there are changing trends over time, and also a Rural Travel/Rural Non-Travel to see if there are specific trends within Rural community responders.
-=- Discussion -=-
Geoscience programs show declining enrollment across the world and many smaller programs have closed due to that lack of enrollment.
I argue from the poll results that this trend might reflect larger cultural trends. The people who choose geoscience are driven by curiosity in the differences of the world around them. Exposure to those differences is enhanced by Travel, second only to the outdoors being readily available in rural areas.
Yet in America at least, travel is often cost-prohibitive except to Middle Class to Upper-Middle Class families. I propose that the decline of geoscience as a major might be connected to a decline in outdoor exposure, whether than be in time available to go hiking, outdoor access, travel being cost-prohibitive, school field trip funding, or suburban areas.
-=- Description of Options Given -=-
Not a lot (grew up in the suburbs/city; no hiking)
Urban Exposure (grew up in the suburbs/city; outdoors a lot)
Travel Exposure (grew up in the suburbs/city; traveled and was outdoors a lot)
Rural Exposure (grew up in a smaller city/town; outdoors a lot)
Familial Exposure (urban or rural community; family member was in geosci)
Familial and Natural Exposure (Lots of outdoor experience with family member in geosci)
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Look, I’m a slut for fictional men and fey princes, but it is now just frankly embarrassing to admit that I am in love with a figment of someone else’s imagination called ‘Wendel Bambleby’, of all things. Like that is crossing some kind of line.
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not my prof reaching out to me directly to see if i want to present at a conference with a paper i wrote for her last semester i guess she really liked it at least lol
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10. 10. 2023 • 5/100 days of productivity
Gloomy day at the office, spent mostly talking with my advisor about my thesis and like... academic life in general.
Emails:
resend emails to restaurants (before writing to K about the money)
D about the plane
bar about the coffee breaks
write to everyone about the arrival time and dietary restrictions
send front and back covers separately to R
send abstract proceedins to I
forgot about a deadline: reply about the symposium!!!
reply to language processing workshop prof
Conference:
check J's comments and corrections of the abstract proceedings (why pay a language editor when your advisor is the most pedantic mf you can find)
fix O's affiliation
let people know about their bad English proposed changes
My stuff:
meeting with J about the diss plan
see what those minor revisions are about and if they're truly minor
Photos: I hope reviewer 3 has a wonderful day today, they deserve it.
Household:
dishes
15 min kitchen
bathroom
call dad
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