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catieslaughts · 5 months
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Me, most days: Astronomy is so beautiful! Science is so wonderful! I love being a human and getting to pursue my innate curiosity about the nature of the world around me! I am so lucky!
Me, the night before an exam: fuck this fuck you fuck me fuck everything I’m 24 fucking years old and I have a test tomorrow what the fuck
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alexistudies · 17 days
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monday, march 11th 2024
spring break came and went in the blink of an eye, but it was lots of fun! met up with friends from HS, went to disneyland, and spent time with my family. I also still did some work over break that was time sensitive, but I can't really complain :)
its officially past the halfway point of the semester and i can see the finish line. ahhhh. i also realize i need to start studying more for my classes because things are getting more complex... BUT WE WILL SURVIVE
follow my studygram if you want a more frequent, up close in my daily academic life - IG: lexthephdstudent
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legogradstudent · 3 months
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Scheduling all his upcoming obligations for after the winter break, the grad student offloads everything onto his future self.
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honeesblog · 3 months
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a lot of people in my program really only do their studies and to my other PHD's I urge you: make sure you have other things going on! I have a near endless list of weird hobbies and sports and other interests and I just want you to know that you don't need to eat, sleep, and breathe only your topic and subject! Read a fiction book for fun, paint something badly, find a nice shop to browse in, go for a walk in a green area, take a break and don't rush through it. Pleasure and relaxation are valuable and worth your time. The point of a PhD/Masters is not to work in a hard and unsustainable way until you are done but instead to learn how to be an academic, what type of academic you are, and how you want to live your life/balance your academics and everything else!
When you are studying/working, don't be afraid of being wrong or doing things messily or poorly. On hard days, give yourself leeway, add an extra scoop of sugar to your coffee or tea, and listen to the rocky theme!
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dearlyjess · 6 months
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mmm warm drinks, dense theory, just a normal day of a graduate student
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2024.02.29 | Day 40/100 days of productivity
Happy leap day!! My day is pretty calm, with an NVIVO workshop in my class this afternoon (which I think I may already know most of) and otherwise just grinding away to get my communicable disease term paper drafted. I don't have any classes tomorrow so I'll just push all my readings for next week until then. After this term paper, the last big assignment I hjave this semester is my thesis proposal, so I should be able to get back into doing more of my research shortly.
I hope you all have a lovely and productive day!
Today's goals:
Qualitative methods class
Draft communicable disease term paper
Drink water (0/2)
Pick up prescription
Buy a few groceries on the way home
Read before bed
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acadoll · 4 months
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Pictures from the classroom I teach in! These samples are stored there, but I don’t use them unfortunately. They’re so very cool. I wish I could do more paleontology, but alas. We can’t do it all. I stayed up very late last night and then got us very early this morning to have a thesis proposal draft ready. I definitely need to work on my time management. It’s been not fun.
11.15.23 — posted late
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senlinstudies · 4 months
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19.11 | sometimes a day is just:
(various methods of transport) (therapy) (too much time spent on finding a coffeeshop to study in) (work on assignment) (various methods of transport) (home)
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socialworkerbee · 5 months
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diagnostics is such a challenge already. i never even considered how symptoms present in neurodivergent individuals.
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lichenaday · 10 months
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I know this blog is lichen focused, but I also consider it a science blog and a space where I can talk about my experiences in science and academia. My most recent field work involved catching, handling, and ringing birds at a bird observatory, and I wanted to talk a little about the harsh realities of working with wild animals that I feel like don't get represented enough. I think it's important to paint a fair and realistic picture of what the world of animal research looks like, as it often gets misrepresented in media.
Wild animals do not like being handled. You have probably heard some story or seen some movie that makes it seem like you are somehow gonna connect to the animals you are working with and reassure them that you mean them no harm. No no, you are a big scary predator and they have no idea what is happening, and they scream, bite, and fight like hell to get away from you. This runs the gambit from kinda funny to mildly annoying to actually making it hard for you to work to making you feel bad for putting these animals through this stress. There will be no special magical wild animal friendships, trust me.
Animals are DIRTY. Like I know you know that on some level, but you don't really know it until you are up close and personal with them. In the case of the birds I work with, this usually means shit. Lots and lots of shit. On them, or you, on every surface and article of clothing you have. And you may think "in the grand scheme of poops, bird poops aren't so bad." But let me tell you: in sheer quantity and viscosity, bird shit beats them all.
PARASITES. Now we are not anti-parasite on this blog in general, they have their place in the ecosystem just like everything else. But personally, I don't really enjoy having to see them or experience them up close and personal. I'm talking ticks, fleas, mites, intestinal worms, louse flies, etc. Just . . . no thanks.
Animals get injured, and having to see these injuries up close and knowing there isn't anything I can do about it is hard. Be they old wounds, new, or the very rare wound that can occur during the catching and handling process, it can really get you down looking at an animal that you can't help.
Animals are unpredictable. Like, most of this field is about *trying* to predict their behavior, but animals are true disciples of Murphy's Law, and I swear they get off on frustrating scientists and their well laid plans and hypotheses. For me, this meant that the birds I was working with just didn't show up in the predicted numbers. This was frustrating to me on a how-the-fuck-is-my-project-gonna-work-out-now? level, but also on a worried-for-the-health-of-the-birds-and-the-planet level. If you enjoy work that is predictable and dependable, wildlife biology isn't for you.
I wat to be clear that I LOVE what I do, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. The work I and other wildlife biologists do is incredibly important and I am not saying this to cast a disparaging light on the field. But so many wildlife biologists I have interacted with are not like, bleeding heart, sensitive babies like me, and didn't adequately prepare for the mental and emotional toll of working with wildlife. I think the field selects for folks who are able to compartmentalize their love and empathy for animals, and I don't like that. I think we need people like me in the field, but I think they should be prepared for the reality of it, that's all. Or maybe I just need to vent lol.
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catieslaughts · 5 months
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Sometimes I think I want to try making an aesthetic studyblr blog but then I remember that this is what my desk looks like and my handwriting never advanced beyond 5th grade
Edit: this post still picks up traction here and there and I did actually end up making a Studyblr so come follow @proto-skyentist
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viejospellejos · 1 year
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La universidad de Kyoto (Japón) permite a los estudiantes vestirse de lo que quieran en la ceremonia de graduación:
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Aquí algunos de los mejores 😂
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unfeelingmyself · 5 months
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muikazukin · 7 days
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卒業式
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alexistudies · 2 months
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january 15th 2024
journaling and spiritual connection to start off the morning on this somewhat day off.
plan for today
5k training
patch up the introduction for this manuscript
review for my lectures tomorrow
attempt to start neural engineering homework
i hope everyone had a good weekend :)
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