#gradschool applications

[deliriousdisquisitions]

19.10.2022. 🎧Exile -Taylor Swift (Ft. Bon Iver)

I barely slept 4 hours before I had to get ready for my shift. I'm volunteering at Basta, Kuwait, for the rest of the year and still adjusting to the timings. Their office is located in one of the most shady parts of town, on the rooftop of a run down multi story parking. But the interior is so freaking cool with its indie, arthouse vibes that I instantly fell in love with this space!

[cryinginthelibrary]

Here we go then! Good luck to everyone turning in their dissertations soon! And good luck to everyone starting their grad school applications soon! Goodness knows I'll be doing both!

[novashouse]

need to work on my postgrad application its literally the second half of march whyyyy am i so incapable of just Doing it

[cephalopodvictorious]

I am psspsspssing my brothers into accepting help and I am so warm and fuzzy about it

we were really taught that any and all help is a burden on other people and an invitation to let them lash out at you later, but I've been gently reminding him for literally years that if I can help, I will, and if I can't, I'll find someone who can, and it doesn't come with strings

and last weekend, he very casually mentioned that he was going to apply to gradschool and he was struggling a little with some of the application process, so I offered to reach out to some people I know, and he said yes. he's reaching out for help to people, he's finally ready for help and I'm so relieved

which also highlights how everyone else must feel when I suck it up and ask for help, but hey, one step at a time. we're getting there

[museum-spaces]

Long Night Blog Updates.

Hello my beloved nerds. I hope everyone in the North is keeping warm and everyone in the South is keeping cool. Ianto and I have just had a very very cold week. We got down to -28C which google tells me is about -18f and we hung out there for about a week. Now we're back up to -11c which is much nicer.

I can't remember if I've posted about it here but I have been working on a gradschool application to the University Chicago department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations - Egyptology department. It was a bit of a last minute dash because I kinda forgot to look at the due dates. woops. But I got everything in and all my Letter of Recommendation requests out by 1 Dec - a full 2 weeks before my contributions were due.

The deadline for the LoRs was the 22nd. I got one LoR from a Classics professor, one from a Museologist, and one from and Egyptologist - in theory. The Egyptologist ended up not sending a letter in and between Christmas and New Years I will be sending her an email politely asking what went wrong because I could have substituted a different Egyptologist. I know a bunch of them.

If I get in, I'll know by the end of February. But because I am one LoR short, I likely won't get in. Which sucks. But, as it was a last minute application I don't actually expect to get in and it will be nice to be able to blame her instead of my own mistakes and gaps.

On the plus side, if I don't get in, I can take some time to apply for more than just this one program. Might try Leiden. I also made a terrible joke that if I wait long enough my cousin and my aunt can be two of my LoR writers. They have different last names from each other and me, so it wouldn't raise too many flags lol. Except I have nothing to do with medicine -aunt- and only tangential ties to historic musicology -cousin.

For now, Ianto and I are hanging out in Camel Town, and if my application is rejected, we have promised work here next year if we want to stay on. I am itching to move to a city again, but I live in a pretty good place for the money, and it will let me build up a 'war chest' of cash as well as other tools for my eventual PhD program.

I am a little bit bummed about the situation but there isn't much I can do about it.

Ianto eating a ginger cookie

I got this beautiful blanket out of my hope chest when it got cold. I have 3 quilts from my grandma, two like this, and one with beautiful pinwheels. Ianto is enjoying this one with me.

[thecataclysmic6]

I have a gradschool application due in less than 48 hours and I'm 500 words below the minimum.

🫡

[ethereal-scramble]

4-5 May, 2023 (Day 2-3/60)

I am so happy because I was able to submit my housing application! There were some issues with proving that I do, in fact, have an internship scheduled with their university, but their admin was able to figure out a way to do it. I have also given them my arrival date 🫣 Everything is happening so fast and so slow at the same time.

In other news, the internship committee forced AH to give me feedback the very next day and not 2 weeks from now like he planned 😂 So now I have a bunch of comments to work through. That's fine, they raised some valid points. AH feels attacked yet again, this time by me saying his invention has never been validated (because it hasn't) so we'll see. I'll have to reword this, I suppose.

I'm currently focusing on my scientific review application and the internship application will have to wait until next week. I have absolutely zero idea how to write a review application 👀 I guess I'll improvise. I think I'll ask a friend for hers, just to see what I'm aiming for. At least my topic is interesting, although I definitely see why a review is needed... The subject is a mess.

I found r/phd and r/GradSchool on reddit recently and boi is it relatable. I am SO glad there are so many people sharing their struggles with the world. To that end, I get that I may have a very, very small audience here, but I like to think that my journey might still help someone someday and make them feel a bit less inadequate and frustrated. At least that's what others do for me.

On the sleeping schedule and working out front I have failed abominably. I keep going to sleep very late and I don't plan anything movement-related in my day which inevitably means I totally end up not doing it. Relying on "feeling like it" is such a scam.

[fulgurantfirstborn]

{{A belated HAPPY NEW YEAR to you fine folks! I am still alive and kicking and almost done with gradschool applications...}}

[luckyaes]

So um I need help raising money for an application fee for gradschool housing. This doesn’t mean I got accepted but I have to apply so that I can get priority housing. This is one of the things I got to raise funds for another I’ll set up if I get accepted for um bedtime pants >~>

[justarandomgirl98]

Genius Idea of the Day:

Apply for a PhD programme in Geneva, Switzerland!

Why do I do this to myself? 

My references love random emails from me that start with “So, I found a new programme...” 

And they go “Okay, OP... Can you speak French?”

The answer is Oui, oui, un croissant! 

The real answer is Je ne sais pas beaucoup français

In my defense, the language of the programme is English. I just will have to live in the lab. 

[hawtchocolate]

Super excited because a couple weeks ago I was going through neuroscience grad program faculty lists and I came across a name that sounded familiar...I did a little digging and I had gone to a talk she gave a while back! And I was able to flip right to the day of the talk and read all my notes and impressions of her. This is def one of my top ten most satisfying moments of having a bujo!

[deliriousdisquisitions]

30.10.2022. Anxious mess today. Woke up at the crack of dawn, skipped breakfast, and dragged my ass to work. It's one of those days when I don’t want people to look at me and the idea of going anywhere to get lunch makes me feel out of breath, my legs turn to jelly. My friend stayed with me on the phone so I could actually walk out without having a panic attack halfway through. But hey, it’s gotten a lot better than it's been for the past 3 years so there’s your silver lining. 

Editing out my schedule for next month today and trying to not think about scholarship deadlines. I also need to get some readings done and fix my bibliography by the end of the month. My works cited page is all over the place. The rest I don't want to think about. Cross that bridge when I get there.

[cryinginthelibrary]

How do people deal with waiting to hear back from grad schools? Especially if you're a winter graduate. Like your life is just suddenly empty. This will be the first spring semester I don't have school since kindergarten and it kind of freaks me out a bit. Everything just feels so empty and even thinking about the future sends me into such an anxiety spiral I can barely breathe. But I also can't stop thinking about it. Because what if it was a waste? I mean, I know in the long run it won't be. I will never regret getting my MA or applying for further education. But in the short run? Everything just feels nerve wracking and terrifying.

[therealmsparkerrrr]

Again who’s in grad school or in the process and can help me with a few things?!?!

[thatonesexstudent]

2021

Yesterday was my birthday! I made the realization that I am now closer in age to 25 than I am to 20...whaaaat! 

I recently graduated and now have my Bachelor’s of Art in Women’s and Gender Studies and am currently working on applying to grad school. If I get accepted, I will be moving 1,300 miles away from my home state--I’m so excited. I am from the Midwest and live in a state that does not reflect my beliefs or morals, so it’s really challenging to not feel stuck in my life at the moment. I don’t want to get my hopes up on being accepted into grad school, because the program I am applying to is really competitive and I am afraid of failure! 

I’ll make sure to keep you all updated on me applying and the school’s decision. **fingers crossed**

[pet-diary]

04.03.18. // Soooo, here’s the big news on what’s going on lately. I didn’t feel like writing it all out so I just made a video talking about it. I’ve been avoiding blogging and talking about any of this but it’s time that I just start dealing with it and moving on with my life... I have an interview on May 1st for one school. If I get accepted, I’ll just have to figure out what to do from there. In the meantime, I’m doing more observations at the autism clinic, and the guy who’s helping me with that is really nice and seems to have an interest in helping me out in my career. So hopefully that will make some difference in my ability to get a job and eventually reapply (assuming I don’t accept this other school’s potential offer)... Everyone seems to still believe in me but I’m having a hard time believing in myself at this point. It just feels like they see someone that I’m not...

Anyway... I need to start prepping for that interview...