#mkg in academia

[double-book-ed]

I’m entering the last month of my mphil program, about to cram an entire dissertation into the next four weeks, and I realized for the first time in my academic career, I don’t know if I can do it. Graduating from high school, graduating from college... I was not particularly proud of doing these things because I never doubted that I would do them. I worked hard, but I would not say that completing the degrees was hard. But now, I genuinely don’t know if I am going to get this done in time. If I do, if I pull this off, I will really feel as though I have accomplished something, but only because failure is a true possibility for the first time in my life. I might not make it. And that is terrifying.

#mkg in academia #grad school

[thecoronaquarantinediaries]

general check in

overall i’ve been doing a lot of creative things. i’m embroidering the murakami flower onto a pair of jeans because i want them to be hopeworld themed. i’ve been making a few collages and tiktoks. i also decided to do a photoshoot and submitted the good photos to an online magazine. then i applied as a photographer to another online magazine. i hope it all turns out well! i’ve also been playing acnl and acnh a lot as well as watching a lot of new tv shows, mainly cartoons and anime like adventure time, haikyuu, and boku no hero academia. i’m also rereading the entire nancy drew series or at least the books i have. now i’m going to go to sleep!!

good night and signing off, mkg.

#quarantine #quarantine diaries #california #life in quarantine