#to the phd

[theclassicsreader]

they should invent a grad school that isn't bad

#to the phd #blacklist my tag to hide my complaints . #gradblr #people arguing with this post saying grad school isn't bad...... get your own post i am very much saying to you It Is Bad #like this post WAS meant to be funny #but saying it's bad is irrespective of whether you liked it or not! it's the system.

[faireladypenumbra]

Hello, I am back for a month now that the semester is over. Submitted grades for my students, and final papers for my classes. It was a great learning semester for me, as a teacher and a lifelong learner: I hope it was the same for these students as well.

Happy end to the first semester of the Ph.D. Let's keep going!

#gradblr #to the phd

[cemeterything]

some observations on color coding eyewear in ficton and their meanings

#🐉 #ive read homestuck so i basically have a phd in this /j

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

sick of this anti-aging obsession. let's go in the opposite direction. i want more characters who are hardened & grizzled & have a face lined with the harrowing tribulations of time--and then halfway through the narrative u find out they're 27

#they aren't even a chainsmoker or anything they just don't wear sunscreen are chronically dehydrated and have witnessed the Horrors #u know. like most of us #ideally we first meet them in a bar where they are guzzling from a tankard like a mysterious and dangerous stranger #later we find out it's not ale they're on a kombucha kick #they've been making it in their basement w/ the help of a college roommate who quit a biochemistry phd to become a beekeeper

[prokopetz]

The problem with Victor Frankenstein isn't that he's not as smart as he thinks he is. The problem with Victor Frankenstein is that he's exactly as smart as he thinks he is in one very specific area, and he just expects that to automatically translate to every other area of his life and is taken completely by surprise every single time it doesn't.

#media #literature #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #mary shelley #characterisation #he's the forefather of every stem influencer who thinks having a phd in physics automatically makes them a qualified sociologist

[ouroborosorder]

#this bird has a phd

[iamthecutestofborg]

I. HATE. IN-TEXT. CITATIONS.

Not just when I'm writing a paper, but when I'm READING a textbook it looks SO messy (Rick-Astley, 1969, p. 420) and it's SO distracting, (Morbius, 2022) and SO disruptive (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, & Rudolph, 1964.) to my reading and (Bird, Grouch, Monster, & Monster, 1997 ) learning process. And why are some of them SO FUCKING (According, 2007; To & All, 1991; Known, Laws, & Of, 2378; Aviation, 57 B.C.E.) LONG???

#and its so awkward to use speechify and have it be like #bla bla WEIRD AL YANKOVIC PHD NINE THOUSAND NINTY NINE HUNDRED AND NINTY FIVE bla bla bla... #school #college problems #textbooks #homework #citations

[irate-iguana]

We need more weird historian rep in Doctor Who. The companions are too normal when faced with the prospect of time travel. I want a companion who makes a list of super specific historical destinations related to their dissertation. I want somebody whose first reaction to finding out that the Doctor is a time travelling alien is to create a Microsoft Word document and ask, “What caused the Late Bronze Age collapse?”

#i know ian’s a history teacher but i want a little freak working on their phd. caffeinated and sleep deprived and broke #i haven’t seen a ton of old who though so please let me know if someone does match this description #and my memory of most of moffat’s era is fuzzy at best #edit: BARBARA’s the history teacher i’m sorry i wrote and queued this at 3 AM #doctor who #whoniverse #original post

[rhube]

This tweet came for me.

#thesis #phd #thesis defence #viva

[intellectually-voluptuous]

ugh ugh ok i am just home from thanksgiving at my parents' and despite the fact that the neighbor's dog will Not stop barking & further i have no desire to do anything else for the night, i do in fact need to Do Things for the next 90 ish minutes until i get to talk to my dear friend and stop having a brain for the day. so! i am posting that intention here such that it is more concrete and thus more likely to happen. we are gonna do it. there's no list because I really just need to work on an unfinished presentation that must be finished by the time i'm giving it at 12:30pm tmrw. so that's what we're gonna do.

#rose.txt #literally started making a list and immediately realized it's just this presentation and all the little sub tasks so. here we are (: #to the phd

[theclassicsreader]

ok! it's summer now & i need to get my butt into gear with reading for exams, which i am of course very behind on. so i'm gonna do more frequent check ins about my progress, bc having like 50k ppl see whether i'm doing what i should be doing is helpful!!

today i'm gonna: spend at least 3 hours reading brave new world. gonna ease myself into this for now

#to the phd #she's doing exams

[penandpaper-love]

November 30, 2023

Still feeling drained and tired. At least we have snow and it's incredibly beautiful...

#mine #studyblr #100 days of productivity #motivation #phd life #literature #phdblr #soft academia #light academia

[romanceyourdemons]

shen qingqiu and shang qinghua are paragons of internet safety. refusing to share their real names with people they met online even after getting transmigrated into another dimension

#i mean. are there Implications to the two only really seeming to identify with their character names and internet pseudonyms? #only feeling really comfortable when they have a facade to stand behind even in their most intimate relationships? #yeah yeah of course #but also those boys both have a phd in not getting doxxed (and by god they needed it) #ryddles

[angeljas]

how to wake bocchi up 

#help i'm obsessed with bokita #bocchi the rock #gotou hitori #kita ikuyo #yuri #bokita #myart #kita chan definitely has a phd in bocchiology #she's always the one that ends up taking care of bocchi

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

going through my old journals as part of therapy homework and i'm reading a section written in the emotional wreckage of a full-on breakdown when i get hit with this line:

There is never a satisfying answer to ‘Why didn’t they love me?’

like wow babe. good fucking point

#like you were on the ground biting the carpet and dry sobbing while you wrote that and still. good fucking point #not a shitpost #cptsd #and it's true. there's never a satisfying answer #the truth is i know why i wasn't loved #i analyzed my parent's traumas and abuse to death. i understand why i alienated and was alienated from my siblings #i know why my mom was too overwhelmed to be capable of nurturing #i know why my dad vanished into addiction and avoidance #the details of our cycles of trauma and cptsd and family history i have a phd in all of it #i understood perfectly. i spent years studying and now i knew the answer #and guess what? IT WAS NOT SATISFYING!!! #because they still didn't love me! and i still couldn't change that! #it was still a completely unsatisfying state of affairs! #so like. when the people who are supposed to love you...don't. #when the people who are supposed to take care of you...fail to #you can look for answers and reasons and explanations #but that's not actually going to FIX your situation. #and it's probably not within your ability TO fix the situation. (and definitely not your job) #because you don't need answers--you need a new situation #*inserts Just Walk Out. You Can Leave!!! (Running Skeleton) Meme* #and yes. walking out isn't always possible. #but for you i hope it will be one day soon. and i hope you build the courage to take that leap. #stepping away from the people who failed to love you...it feels like being untethered but also like being lighter than air #new and scary. immensely relieving. the future opens up. empty but empty like a canvas. blindingly bright until your eyes adjust #like climbing out of a pit you called home and for the first time realizing how bright the light of day can truly be #when you aren't just getting glimpses from the bottom of a hole

[amnhnyc]

🕷️Meet Joe Arguelles, a comparative biology Ph.D. student in the Museum’s Richard Gilder Graduate School. His research focuses on understanding the molecular drivers of the incredible mechanical properties of spider silks.

🕸️He also studies the evolution of “prey capture systems” (silk, venom, and vision) in active hunting spiders, and how these genes have changed in response to the loss of web-spinning behavior.

#spiders #silk #spider silk #stem #halloween #research #museums #did you know #fact of the day #amnh #cool facts #arachnids #arachnology #phd #science #nature #natural history