#graduate student life

[spaceandthedigitalfrontier]

Finally watched Sonic The Hedgehog...

Really a cute movie, tbh, love found family stories. But all I gotta say is:

Dr. Robotnik, it's no wonder he's insane, with 5 Ph.D.s... Nobody needs five doctorate degrees. Two would be excessive. Five's an entire career, between 15 and 25 years of graduate school, and once you have one you could just do all the research you want and teach yourself. Hell, even just take the extra graduate courses if you're interested. Or you could have just done one in a multi-disciplinary field.

[marywthgdhair]

Learning to love myself more each day and enjoying my own company.

[legogradstudent]

Collaborating on a project with several colleagues, the grad student is unable to identify exactly what he is contributing.

[senlinstudies]

4.11.23 You are looking at the desk of a true academic weapon *cries*

[theunaestheticstudyblr]

You should never have shame about your academic journey. It's a journey. You're growing and learning. You're going to face challenges alone for one of the first times in your life. Shit's hard. It's ok to struggle.

I haven't had a pretty journey at all. I'm graduating with a bachelor's degree at 25. I've been in college nonstop since I was 18. I've failed a lot of classes and had to go part time. So many things have happened. But I will have the degree. And that degree is worth the exact same as someone who got it in 3 years. The knowledge I have is mine to keep.

How I got here doesn't matter. I'm here. I am going to graduate in a few months. I have won this chapter of my life. And to those who try to shame me for how I got here and how long it took, I pray that you never experience the things I have that have made it take long. May you live a life of comfort and luxury and have hands soft as silk until you die. And hopefully I will get the same grace from the universe eventually.

[honeesblog]

a lot of people in my program really only do their studies and to my other PHD's I urge you: make sure you have other things going on! I have a near endless list of weird hobbies and sports and other interests and I just want you to know that you don't need to eat, sleep, and breathe only your topic and subject! Read a fiction book for fun, paint something badly, find a nice shop to browse in, go for a walk in a green area, take a break and don't rush through it. Pleasure and relaxation are valuable and worth your time. The point of a PhD/Masters is not to work in a hard and unsustainable way until you are done but instead to learn how to be an academic, what type of academic you are, and how you want to live your life/balance your academics and everything else!

When you are studying/working, don't be afraid of being wrong or doing things messily or poorly. On hard days, give yourself leeway, add an extra scoop of sugar to your coffee or tea, and listen to the rocky theme!

[nixcraft]

credit

[nerdgirlnarrates]

Had to explain to my parents last night that women don’t pee out of their vaginas. And then they just didn’t believe me!!! My mother kept saying that she knows she only has two holes (?????????) until my dad made everyone move on.

[alexistudies]

november 16th, 2023

haven't really been going to anatomy, just haven't been feeling it. my grade shouldn't suffer too much from it so thats the only reason i've felt okay with not going. idk other things are just more important like my actual grad level coursework and research responsibilities.

i feel like i have so many things to do before the end of the semester and its not a great feeling, but all i can do is chip away at it day by day. they say the first semester is the hardest, so this is truly the worst it will ever be!

[0nelinerwordplay]

[marywthgdhair]

A week in the life of a grad student.

[legogradstudent]

Repairing his run-down laptop, the grad student is tempted to obliterate the anxiety-ridden piece of junk instead.

[senlinstudies]

The process of inductive coding for my thesis data is long 😭 I wish the themes wrote themselves onto my page

[socialworkerbee]

diagnostics is such a challenge already. i never even considered how symptoms present in neurodivergent individuals.

[magpiesbones]

truly the modern au that preserves most directly the Impact of orufrey is:

Olruggio and Qifrey are married, and Oru mostly gets referred to by Qifrey as ‘my husband’ while Qifrey is at work. Qifrey is an untenured physics professor at some out of the way college.

Qifrey does tend to be the sort of professor who’s fun, but wants to pretend that his personal life doesn’t exist while at work. All his students know is that ‘my husband’ does his IT. Slowly by things Qifrey mentions his students learn that ‘my husband’ is also a night owl, also has a physics degree, and likes to cook.

And then Qifrey attends a department social with the man who Won the Nobel prize three years ago for revolutionizing the combustion engine. Olruggio spends the whole night referring to himself as ‘Qifrey’s trophy husband’. He has been on at least one variety show (he hated it).

Qifrey, three glasses of wine in, mentions they got engaged after he was almost thrown out of his phd program on charges of academic dishonesty, but his advisor, Beldaruit (credited with 1/3 of fixing the standard model to incorporate massive neutrinos) came through. The charges were false, and the investigation toppled a fraternity.

Coco, a freshman, studying physics bc she’s obsessed with being an astronaut, doesn’t know who any of these people are because she doesn’t follow engineering news and doesn’t know enough physics to care about massive neutrinos.

[midnighthieves]

16.03.23 Well done, self. You are nearly there in finishing one massive assignment. (And you, too. You did good,reader) 🍀💞