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ex-injuria-jus-non-oritur · 1 year

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27•03•23// can't say no to a baked good! Look at the adorable latte candle I picked up at the pop up market! Those are wax coffee beans on the top, I'm obsessed.

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on-the-heath · 1 year

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at the beginning / in the middle

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seraphic-diaries · 2 years

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6.9.22

Okay even if this is no longer primarily a study blog, I still have study / work goals I wanna talk about. 🥺

Anyway, todays goal is to cover all the reading for my new project at work and make a list of all my questions/queries.

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thegirlwiththelilactattoo · 2 months

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hello!! im thinking about doing a post (or series of posts) about revising a chapter of my dissertation — are there things you want to know about the process (notes: it’s a social science/monograph style dissertation and ofc im not an expert, but i want to write something useful for me and others!)

#phdblr #diss update #dissertation #grad school #gradblogging #academia

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art-thropologist · 1 year

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13/2/23

I have reloaded the queue!

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lostingradschool · 2 years

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Graduation countdown: 8 days

last day of classes was Tuesday, I submitted all assignments last week. on the job hunt while I work on my LGPC application. ready for the next chapter of my life. thank you to everyone that has followed this journey and supported me. guess I'll have to rename this page after next week

#graduate school #grad student #graduation #college graduate #final grades #gradblr #grad school #gradblogging #hbcugrad #motivation #positive vibes #encouragement #grad life #university #sgrho #sigmagammarho

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thebigwhatif · 2 years

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100 Days of Productivity Catch Up Post

Day 11/100--May 1, 2022

The last couple of days were a little hectic with a few ups and downs so I haven't had the chance to post in a while.

Of the downs we had:

Long days in lab. With my super long commute, I find that if I finish later at the lab by the time I get home (6 or 7) it's really hard for me to do anything else at home. Also I had to do a lot of really long experiments so I'm really exhausted by the end of the day

My messed up sleep schedule reminding me of how messed up it is and making me bedridden with a migraine.

I didn't get as much done in terms of MCAT studying as I wanted to.

Of the ups we have:

My experiment finally working!!! I've spent months trying to get my transfection to work on my cells and it finally worked!!! They took up so much of the plasmid and a whole bunch of them took it up too! I'm super stoked! That means that I'm one more step closer to finishing the troubleshooting stage of my thesis!

I've read through 1.5 research papers this week. The goal is to read 3 per week, so I guess I'm halfway there? It's a lot better than earlier on this semester.

I've booked my hair appointment for this week. Calling and making appointments gives me so much anxiety so I've been putting it off for a while so I'm pretty happy about getting this done

My friend graduated from his program this week so we went out to celebrate in our favourite cafe yesterday. We are both usually super busy with school and since we go to different schools it's hard to get together throughout the year. So it was really nice to see him again after a while. I also got to catch up with some other people I haven't seen around.

The Uni was giving out free pizza and had a bbq throughout finals week so I got to snag some free food this week which is always a win.

Today's plans:

clean my room

water my plants

finish chapters 1 and 2 of chem

catch up on anki

finish reading the rest of the paper I started this week

chapters 1 and 2 of MCAT bio

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mugglestudiesblr · 2 months

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i don't remember the last time i actually typed a text post but i am so extremely anxious it might help??

anyway. i'm waiting to hear back from a phd program i applied to and they're being pretty radio silent. for context - it's been nearly three months and outcomes were meant to be released a few days ago. i guess not getting a rejection is a good thing, but i've spent so long trying to convince myself that i don't really want this in order to stave off what feels like an inevitable disappointment that it's actually taken me until now to realise i might actually want this. and what a time to realise it lol. realistically, i know my chances are limited but i'm still hopeful. ugh i don't know what to do with this anxiety over the weekend. i'm trying to make plans/make art/throw myself into other things but i feel really consumed with anxiety!!!!!!!!!!

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ex-injuria-jus-non-oritur · 1 year

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21•03•23// hi friends! I've been a bit MIA due to the lack of studying haha. Having no content definitely makes it harder to post. I'm still around, I'll be here intermittently until the summer when I've got studying to do again. Until then, here's my desk.

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on-the-heath · 1 year

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i think.... i am pretty much done with comps? i am gonna go over all my papers again tomorrow and try and more explicitly tie my arguments together (try, given that i am ~60 words under the limit atm), then give them another once-over on thursday, but this is the final downhill stretch!

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seraphic-diaries · 2 years

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22.9.22

Had my theory driving test yesterday. Failed by one mark in the area I thought I was more confident it and did ridiculously well in the area I was sure I’d fail in. Swings and roundabouts but I’m not phased. Gonna take it again with a bit more studying.

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acoldbreeze · 3 years

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2.9.2021 // yesterday morning vibes ft. an @ohk4te work-with-me. i've been making surprisingly good headway on thesis-reading thanks to rediscovering pomodoro after... 1.5 years of online grad school lol

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thegirlwiththelilactattoo · 11 months

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No. 10, or Chapter 2: Electric Boogaloo

Introduction

In my first dissertation chapter, I found it exceptionally challenging to parse out what a chapter was supposed to look like and how to articulate my ideas. These are like pretty fundamental elements of writing, so my first chapter ended up being largely unfocused. I'm a write-as-I-think sort of person, but it felt pretty discouraging to turn in writing I felt wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. After sending the draft off to my committee chair for the first round of comments, I decided I wanted to address the most glaring shortcoming of chapter one in my second chapter. This manifested as two goals: remain in control of the argument and use evidence more efficiently.

Writing Chapter Two

I started chapter two largely the same way as chapter one, with a mind map. I mentioned in a previous post how I use mind maps, so I won't rehash that here (link to that post). The argument and evidence I initially planned in my mind map didn't end up in the draft I turned in...at all. Like in my first chapter, I planned to cover a robust amount of information that ended up being entirely unreasonable to cover in a chapter -- not in the sense that there were too many ideas, but that the strands of discussion didn't amount to an actual argument. I like love to info dump, so my writing often reflects me rambling with no point because I'm excited about what I learned. I ended up chatting with my advisor in the early stages of this chapter (good idea!!) to get her feedback. While I also didn't end up incorporating what we talked about in that conversation, it helped to reframe the chapter with more focus.

Another fail this time around, was my also bad habit of doing a ton of reading before I start writing. I ended up reading a lot about new materialisms because I thought I would do a literature review in this chapter. I didn't find anything particularly interesting in the literature from new materialism or other ontological turn stuff, so instead I wasted a lot of time reading for no reason. idk if I have any coherent advice for this, but I think I learned that I need to start with the data first and then read what feels appropriate to help me write the argument. I'm a firm believer in not deleting words. Instead I move them to a different word doc (I call mine "Chp X Bits") in case I want to include those words later. My Chp 2 Bits ended up being about 10k words of different stops and starts where I tried to figure out how to enter the narrative of the chapter.

After this point, I had another committee member read my draft. This was a bad idea. In my discipline, committee members typically don't expect or want to read rough drafts or be the first pair of eyes on early writing. The committee chair is considered the first line of defense who and gives comments on the initial draft. My other committee member did give some helpful comments about my over reliance on other scholars, which for her, limited my own theoretical contributions. Not sure if other people feel this way, but I've found that grad school has chipped away at my confidence to make authoritative claims that aren't couched in some other theorists' words, so this has been really challenging for me. I took her feedback and deleted entire sections that were just me talking about other scholars. Most of the deleted text didn't appear in the finalized rough draft or if it did, it was in the footnotes as additional context.

I switched gears after this second round of feedback and made an outline of the chapter just with data I collected to ground each section. I wrote a section heading with a scant description of what the data demonstrated and then from there, reorganized the chapter to emerge more organically from the data instead of secondary scholarship. As I wrote, I also used color-coding to organize this draft: words I wanted to keep (black), paragraphs that needed to be moved (green), main ideas the section needed to cover (purple/or highlighted), and stream of consciousness to be rewritten (blue).

Like I said before, I love to info dump and having the main idea of each subsection really helped me stay focused. I also find that using different colors frees me to write messily because it's not the standard text color I'll submit. If it's in blue, I know I have to rewrite it, so it's black text. (I also do this as a write anyway. I write everything single spaced and I double space text to signal to myself that it's finalized.) The color coding also helped structure my editing process because I had a better sense of the edits I wanted to make before I sent the draft off to my chair.

What I Learned/Chapter Three Plans

I won't start writing chapter three until July as I take a "break" to edit my first chapter, work on an article, and outline chapter three. I think that I'm going to focus a lot more intentionally on using the data to structure the chapter. For this chapter, I got a lot of great feedback about the theory, rather than structure because my writing was easier to follow. Without the tangents to secondary data, my writing also felt clearer and more controlled. I did qualitative coding for my data, so I have a ton of thematic codes that I haven't really used to their full potential. I'm going to start the outline from the codes/data to keep my argument consistent.

I also think that I'll check in with my committee chair more often. Usually I meet with her once the chapters done, but having her feedback when I ran into a challenge made a big difference. Especially as I attempt to make theoretical claims sans secondary sources, I want to rely on her more for direction.

Conclusion

So yeah, that's chapter two done, which means I'm halfway done with the rough drafts of my body chapters!! Writing my dissertation has been truly an Experience that I don't think coursework/teaching prepared me for. So much of it feels like throwing anything at the wall to see if it sticks, but I think with each chapter I get closer to understanding what this part of the academic training is supposed to do.

As always if there's anything you would like me to write about, let me know!

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art-thropologist · 2 years

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8/5/22

I finally finished the corset! Pictures to follow when I buy the lacings.

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unadulteratedreviewwitch · 2 years

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How does your weekend look? 💖

Am I a big fan of my visual and media text paper? Yes. Will I survive my finals? Nope. :))

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