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daydadahlias · 1 year

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polo ash is so important to me personally

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shitacademicswrite · 8 months

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#grad school #ta #teaching assistant #academia #grad student assistantships are indentured servitude

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here-comes-the-moose · 2 months

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Omega: Crosshair, I need some advice.

Crosshair, eating Nutella straight out of the jar: You’ve come to the right place.

#omega knows her older brothers are kind of disasters but she still looks up to them and seeks out their advice #I strongly headcanon that Crosshair would absolutely fuck UP a jar of Nutella at two in the morning #then wonders why his stomach hurts the next day #I mean the bad batch are basically all twenty something college guys #except for Echo who is a tired grad student who is their TA that basically adopted them #star wars tbb #star wars the bad batch #the bad batch #tbb crosshair #incorrect bad batch quotes #tbb incorrect quotes #tbb omega

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bmpmp3 · 3 months

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finding out ur coworker is way older than you thought and having to very quickly reorient how you talk to them

#art #traditional art #watercolour #fanart #synthv #synthesizer v #genbu #kasane teto #rikka is also here :) i think she likes to cause problems sometimes. because all the adults in her life are dweebs #and very easy to cause problems with <3 #anyone else have this happen before. im older than a lot of my university peers and i always have been #because i took 5 years in highschool and my undergrad has been like 6 years and counting #(hashtag learning disability <3 ) and like thats chill to me i dont mind #but now i usually assume everyones way younger than me and i get shocked when theyre not. a buddy in some of my classes #when i first met her i absolutely and completely assumed she was like barely 19 and talked to her as such #like i dont talk down to people or anything but i do soften the way i talk a bit and give a bit extra patience with younger peers #cause yknow. i remember what it was like being 19. being 26 is WAY easier lol so i wanna give em a bit of leeway yknow #anyway a few months after meeting her i found out she was actually a year older than me and a grad student when she ended up as a TA in #another class i took. i felt so bad. we bonded tho and she didnt mind she thought it was kinda funny when i was like WAIT UR A GRAD STUDENT #i thought she was like a first or second year undergrad..............#also yeah im a 31yo teto fan. i dont mind the popular fanon that she has a separate age that makes her actually 15 and #i dont mind that more interpretations have her like that BUT for my internal canon she is a grown ass woman because i think its fun <3 #she pays taxes. she goes to work parties. she can rent a car. i love it #let teto rent a car. let her rent a car.#yknow im exicted to be 31. i still got a few more years of being a 20 something which is fun. but being a 30 something sounds like it rules

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sorryicantcomeovermypisaidno · 1 year

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Things in Oppenheimer that made sense to me (as a scientist)

Nightmares of your thesis dance like sugarplums in your head

Scientists holding grudges longer than humanly possible

Admin to faculty- you think you’re better than me because you do research! Admit it!!! Faculty- I don’t think about you at all

Shutting down any attempts to unionize

The two types of wives male faculty have:

1) 50’s homemaker. Husband couldn’t pick his kid out of a lineup

2) Scientist they met in lab and now they are a 2 for 1 deal

Your family, horrified, this is how you are treated at work??? Yeah :( but it’s fine though :)

#oppenheimer #TA #gradblr #phd #research #academia #science #meme #stem #grad student #phd research #phdblr

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luobingmeis · 1 year

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like. on the one hand. i get when my supervisors are like "be sure to be personable with your students in a way that still maintains the fact that u are the authority figure bc, since ur all young, it will be easier for them to not see u as a professional" but also. it is very funny when one of my students comes into the TA office, tells me that my undecorated desk is lame compared to the other desks, and then within 30 minutes is like "idk if ur the type of neurodivergent who [proceeds to say something that i absolutely do]" like. they clocked me! they got me there!

#also my hot take is that like. i am a 24 year old grad student teaching college freshmen.#i know where my strengths and weaknesses are and frankly i feel confident in maintaining my own professionalism #all while not forcing myself to act way older than i am #like my students still (relatively) listen to me #and none have tried. u know. being rude with me #(which i am thaknful for bc i have been hearing some horror stories from the other TAs)#so yeah it's funny when one of my best students is like ''hey jordyn ur desk is really lame compared to everyone else's''#like frankly i'll worry abt being professor [x] when i have a master's #and dr [x] when i have a doctorate

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athenasdragon · 2 months

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JUST GOT ASKED TO TEACH A CLASS I LOVE NEXT SPRING WOOHOO

#grads in my department basically just TA we never get to teach #but my advisor and his last student both taught this class so they asked me if I want to #I'M SO EXCITED!!!!#my life #athena goes to grad school

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iam93percentstardust · 6 months

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Share for bigger sample size and so on and such forth

#academia #alle vs grad school #this post is brought to you by a very tired TA who #without fail #every single exam has to deal with someone not turning off their phone and it going off incessently #and then i have to track it down and no really guys i'm so tired #there are 145 students taking this exam #why do you think you're the exception to the phone rule?#polls

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fantasy-costco · 1 year

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Simultaneously hilarious and terrifying experience of an email chain slowly devolving in formality. Starts with a salutation and a sign off, two full paragraphs of communication. By the end of the email chain it's just 'great!! Thanks.' sent from my iPhone

#I never know how much to deescalate the formality by per email #Probably because no one has ever cared about it #Anyway! I'm going to grad school and I got offered a ta position 😊#Which means lots of emails because I didn't actually apply to be a ta (didn't think I'd get in!) but one of #My favorite professors recommended me probably assuming I'd already applied #So I'm kind of doing everything backwards now #It's wild though! I'm First in family and academia still feels so alien to me #But I guess I'm better at it than I thought...#God please dont take this as bragging I have one thing that I'm good at and I think most grad students do some kind of assistantship right?

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the-sea-anemone · 11 months

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on the one hand, i am very much a proponent of the "first draft doesn't have to be good, it just has to exist" strategy for writing but on the other hand i'm working on the second draft now and i am Suffering

#writing #writers #grad school #college #student #this is about my MA thesis but it applies to fiction too #also if you're an undergrad reading this i am telling you as a TA: edit your papers. i know it sucks but it helps so much i promise #if you only have time to edit one part it should be the intro #there should be a sentence in there you can stick “i will argue that” in front of and if there isn't you need to add one #this is your thesis statement and even if it's not the best the fact that you have one at all will make your profs and TAs very happy #i just finished marking papers sorry for the tag lecture

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astriiformes · 2 years

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Every once and I while I think about the extremely cursed honors college abroad trip to Florence I was a part of my freshman year where many, many things went wrong by the end (including me skipping out on a trip to the Uffizi by pretending to be sick because the night before I'd found out one of the people I was planning on going with was a TERF) and most of the professors on the trip were really weirdly disdainful of students who were studying things other than the humanities (I would have loved to learn more about art history, had they actually wanted to teach those of us without the right background about art history!) but the one real highlight was an extracurricular trip I and a very small handful of other students signed up for to the Museo Galileo so the whole vibe was very

Oh, weird reliquary of Galileo Galilei's middle finger, we're really in it now.

#the expensive private university woes: get to go on a trip to italy mostly on the school's dime but the whole trip is haunted #like on the whole i'm still grateful to have had the opportunity to go but WHAT was going on with that trip #(the answer is mostly 'rich private school peers and chaperoning professors who were all the worst type of academics')#okay actually there was another similar highlight and it was me and the one very nice very tired grad student TA for my cohort #bonding over a shared appreciation of leonardo da vinci as a history of science guy and art history guy respectively #other than that though. shakes my professors at that school by the shoulders. for god's sake. learn how to be interdisciplinary

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here-comes-the-moose · 2 months

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What I Headcanon the Vibes Were Between Echo Joining the Batch and Omega Joining Them, Using this TikTok Audio Mashup:

CPR: Crosshair

Misery: Echo

Reese’s Puffs: Wrecker

Thank you I will be taking no further questions at this time except I totally will

#I need to get out of the house more because my brain is becoming more and more unhinged #I came to the realization that Echo would absolutely write a diss track #i need serious help #like I said #the original four were just a group of college frat bros #then echo joined and was the tired grad student TA they imprinted on who semi adopted them #star wars tbb #star wars the bad batch #the bad batch #tbb crosshair #arc trooper echo #tbb echo #tbb wrecker #tbb headcanons #bad batch headcanon #bad batch headcanons

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opens-up-4-nobody · 1 year

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#head instructor to the TAs in the lab section i TA for: how r u guys feeling abt the workload?#me who hasnt graded anything since week 1 and spent an hr that morning filling out a patient safety plan: 🙃#listen. we r experiencing symptoms that make us shitty at our job. which is not helpful for a positive outlook #i was also experiencing horrible cramps at the time bc i lost my ibuprofen and 2 days ago i stopped the birth control in a desperate effort #to stop feeling terrible. but in this moment i feel alright. its wild to go from drastically unhappy to like lol wtf was that? anyway stop #being a bby loser. for no obvious reason. im gonna start the birth control again to see if i get depressed again or if that was just me lol #i dont think my therapist understands the depth of my executive functioning issues tho. bc im a grad student and can meet deadlines. like #let me tell u im a fucking disaster abt starting things. i will go back and forth and get nothing done forever. or i do things halfway and #make everything 30 times more difficult later bc no one else understands how my brain works #ah well. itll b fine. sometimes i just get freaked out that i wanna b better and i dont kno how to do that. so i spiral in despair a lil #ill b fine. im good at catching myself before i get too out of control. annoyingly tho i am not currently beating the bip0lar allagations #bc whatever tf is wrong with me i do probably fit the diagnostic criteria for bip0lar 2. i dont kno y that freaks me out so much. i guess #its bc it feels like something i cant just make better thru force of will and i grew up in a home that was very obsessively #health conscious to the point my dad gets anxious abt taking a single ibuprofen. so like ive been conditioned to get freaked out by #medication. literally my grandma will call me and tell me to b suspicious of doctors and to not take medicine unless absolutely necessary.#like lady u r the genetic reason i have 0cd shut the fuck up. also it feels like something that would more negatively affect how ppl think #of u than saying oh yea i get depressed or i have anxiety. like the connotation feels worse im used to just telling ppl whatever tf #my problem is. so the idea of holding something back feels weird. which annoys me bc i dont think there should b so much of a stigma. its #bullshit. anyway idk. im tired. i was trying to think of a comfort tv show with my therapist and all i could think was the terror #when im depressed i wanna watch those English mother fuckers suffer and die. i just lov that show so much. harry g00dsir my beloved. the #most me coded character to ever exist #unrelated

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kvetchinglyneurotic · 1 year

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writing fanfic while i'm also working on my thesis is kind of funny now that i'm past the research/planning stage because every day i spend several hours writing. and then in the evening i unwind from that writing with more writing but fun this time

#writing #get home from the MA student office like now that i'm done writing about the horrors of stalinism it's time to put my guys in situations #also my non-TA job is doing audio transcription so it's basically all writing all the time #except the TA stuff which is mostly writing-free but i do have to grade like 45 written responses this week (they're very short dw)#i do actually like grad school i just also like complaining

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gay-victorian-astronomer · 7 months

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I am in spain without the a

(incidentally I am also in spain without the s, because this is quantum theory and nothing makes any fucking sense)

#chattering #our TA is going to get a half-completed homework but oh well #hopefully she'll understand- we spent most of the weekend at the same grad recruiting events #(her as a current grad student & me as a prospective one)#I did the griffiths questions but I really can't be assed to figure out the one random sakurai question #and the other question that doesn't even have a source attributed to it (wtf is a projective measurement)

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tchaikovskaya · 2 years

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I could/should elaborate when I’m not falling asleep as I am rn but like. I feel like for the people who you “mourn” who have died young and/or suddenly who you knew only in passing, or only casually interacted with, or were once close to but in the years between then and their death you barely spoke, etc etc etc, you arent actually mourning them or their presence in ur life (and now palpable absence) (supposedly) but just what it means to be a human on earth who has to grapple with inevitable loss and the immense weight of what a Person is and their footprint on everyone they interact with that is fleeting even tho there are several billions of us on the floating rock but none of those billions of lifetimes are ever overlapping 100%…. sigh :/

#context a student who graduated last semester (undergrad) died in a car crash like 500 miles away #and one of my fellow grad students/TAs and a few of his former profs are so upset about it and like………#u barely knew this kid I mean of course I feel terrible that someone with his life ahead of him was snuffed out in the blink of an eye #but like…….. if u had never found out about this. or if this hadn’t happened and he went on to live a boring long life #he would mean next to nothing to u !!! u would be none the wiser! u would probz not even recognize his name in 10 years! why are u crying!!!#idk I would be less ANNOYED and hashtag BOTHERED by it if the same people didnt say such nasty derogatory shit about their undergrads #like every other time I talk to u about mundane news ur complaining about how ur students are all lazy untalented idiots #but now THIS ONE who was never meaningful to u before THIS GUY is SPECIAL to u…? u mourn him?#2 weeks ago if I showed u his student ID photo u would struggle to remember his name but NOW HE MEANS SOMETHING #NOW THAT HES GONE AND IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER ANYMORE NOW HE MEANS SOMETHING TO YOU #tldr if ur still reading lmao I feel like this stuff is always about yourself and almost never about the dead person #which is valid in its own way I mean I’ve literally cried after passing mangled cars and ambulances with people who defs aren’t gonna surviv #but it’s never been about their life’s overlap with mine and retconning some kind of memorable or emotional significance to it #idk why I’m so emotional about this in like 3 separate directions but it’s just so fucking frustrating !!!!!!! 🥲🤡

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