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it's 9 weeks til freshers' week and I am getting in the zone

I've only got 19 days left at work, then I'm a free agent for the best part of the month, including a little break with my parents and our dogs down south (including going to a donkey sanctuary, iconic). Starting to think about what I want to get out of this first year of my PhD... I'm funded for four so I don't feel immense pressure to start producing versus consuming, but I know I really want to focus on my pedagogical skills and really get the hang of teaching. I've been assigned a first-year intro class so it's broad and vague, which is great because it's been a long time since I covered some of the content. Just hoping I get an enthusiastic bunch because there's nothing worse than a dead seminar

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After watching a random celebrity “What’s in Your Bag?” video, I got curious (or maybe just nosy, lol) and started asking everyone the same question. So, what’s in your bag? Or, if you’re not the type to carry one, what’s in your pockets?

this is such a fun question

I don't think I carry anything particularly unusual in my bag (besides copious quantities of prescription drugs), but I have just got a new bag in anticipation of my phd!! it's from seventeen london and it's great!! got a big, padded laptop sleeve, a handy zip at the back so you can reach into the main body (which is useful as i'm tube fed so have to tote around a pump and attach myself accordingly), and LOTS of pockets for organisation. highly recommend!!

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Do I resurrect this blog?

I start my PhD in October, and like... I feel like I want to start this tumblr again. I can't guarantee it'll be consistent but is the academia corner of tumblr still alive??

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I haven’t posted on here for like four years but I found out this week that I got full funding for my PhD 🥹

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I am still alive! Just about! The past few months have been... precarious health-wise and I’ve been clawing my way through my Master’s. Just tryna reach the end in one physical piece, y’know? Low bars, low bars. However, I am somehow averaging a distinction so like... we roll. But still here, still kickin’! 

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Honestly having such a huge internal crisis about pursuing a PhD

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brb naming my future daughter Dorothea

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Taylor Swift really came through and dropped a new album on my birthday, singlehandedly redeeming the whole of 2020

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due to personal reasons, i will now stare at a blank word doc for 8 hours

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Good afternoon! It is a cloudy Saturday but I am home from the hospital and we are getting busy this week!!

Email M

LaTeX workshop prep

Proposal:

(Contextual background)

(Theoretical background)

(Methodology)

(Issues)

Write up reading annotation 

Source bibliography

Water the damn plants

Phone optician

Phone GP

Email P

Buy new bullet journal

Job application

(CV)

(Cover letter)

(Application)

If anyone has any valuable resources for PhD proposal writing, please send them my way!!!

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Americans be all like ‘don’t do a PhD unless it’s funded! Know your worth!’ Meanwhile, Brits just cry

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Moooood!😂🙈

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It’s officially the first day of my MA and I’m already behind

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brainstorming with a potential phd supervisor about narrowing down my research questions and it’s the first time i’ve used my brain in... months? and it feels! so! good!!