#phd problems

[drlinguo]

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[kamari2038]

It's always a great day in the lab when your advisor lets you know that he would have fired you by now if you weren't a woman.

[dooareyastudy]

the prof i will TA for this semester asked to see me at the end of the week so i said yes, but that i would like to see even before that to have the info as soon as possible and......... they just basically just said "ok see you on friday then" like ???? can you not answer my request ??? i am not mad that they didn't say yes but to not even acknowledge my request feels a bit rude tbh !!!

[arathyputhillam]

should I carry my laptop or my iPad or (to be very bold) neither when traveling for 15 days?

[quandlesannees]

Me reading about Bathkin's carnivalesque for my dissertation.

[ddp-research]

My latest essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education. This seems to be an especially tough time for new doctoral students -- everywhere. But there are reasons not to give up so soon. soon. #highereducation #phdlife #graduateschool #doctoralstudent

[paynefultolookatyou]

Soo I totally don't feel like a failure because of my revise and resubmit but I totally don't not not feel like a failure. Being a human is hard.

[corky-chicken]

Deadass realizing I am obsessed with the one-sided hate (not really) trope. Definitely top 5 tropes of all time imo.

[legogradstudent]

Peeking outside his conference hotel room, the grad student evades awkward encounters with other attendees.

[valtsv]

finished reading the irl james fitzjames biography. i enjoyed it but i'm unsure how i feel about the author's choice to write it like an essay length effort to convince me to agree to go on a date with his friend who he's wingmanning for.

[emeraldskulblaka]

I hope that one day I'll find friends I can hang out with regularly and who won't make me feel excluded. One day.

I'm always the lonely one in the corner who doesn't know what the others are talking about. That makes me feel like shit because I can't join the conversion, so I go to fewer meet-ups and know even less of what's going on. It's a vicious cycle. I love my friends, but I feel like I'm too awkward for them to consider me their friend as well and to look out for me.

[arathyputhillam]

Writing a journal article as a fanfic girlie is so weird. it’s like I just wrote a self-insert (citing yourself) into this fanfic (literature review)

[mierstaer]

I have never publicly said this but : Jet drowning Gaipan and Zuko burning down Kyoshi Island are

1) narrative parallels

2) are widely exaggerated by the fandom as actions taking place in a 100 years war and performed by two teenagers

because yes context does matter. and you CANNOT possibly think that these actions come even close to the atrocities of what the rough rhinos did to Jet’s village or what Ozai intended to do to the Earth Kingdom.

NO THIS IS NOT ME EXCUSING WHAT THEY DID. DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THIS.

all I’m saying is that context, intentions and knowing what is going on in a character’s head are actually important in that case for a better understanding of their actions.

let’s take a look at Jet. he’s an orphan boy, who grew up with this very idea that every thing that went wrong in his life was caused by the FN (which is true) and that the only way for him to survive is to fight the FN (which is, again, true). therefore, the logical conclusion to years of trauma, and impregnated ideas of vengeance and wrath is to loose touch with your sense of morality and ending up doing heinous things because he’s convinced that it is the right thing to do. the ONLY thing to do. to survive and to escape the war. what people like to forget is that Jet didn’t grow up like Sokka and Katara, who even though faced a terrible tragedy after their mother’s death, and had to live in a tribe that had been weakened by the FN, also lived in a sheltered place for most of their lives, with their Gran Gran and father’s love, with a community, a family. Jet grew up in constant solitude, hunger, pain, fear, death and had to become a parent to those around him. and that’s not me trying to compare them. but you cannot seriously think that they grew up in the same conditions. growing up like that you just CANNOT turn out fine. the absence of love and protection coming from an adult actually does that to a kid. as time passes he realises that he, as an orphan boy, has to do what has to be done in order to survive. the question of morality doesn’t even crosses his mind. because fear and anger are the only thing left for him to survive. and all of this leads to him drowning Gaipan, and committing this heinous crime. which well doesn’t really happen because everyone is safe ! everyone survived ! yes the village is destroyed but that’s material loss. that doesn’t come near the loss of actual people.

now for Zuko, his core character trait in season 1 is that he’s very short sighted. he only sees his goal, and never what’s in between that. this shortsightedness comes from years of obsession fuelled by extreme (FN) propaganda, indoctrination, trauma and anxiety in regards of what awaits Zuko if he never gets to catch the Avatar. like Jet, Zuko’s anger and fear brings what’s most ugly in him : his lack of regards for any collateral damage he might provoke while trying to reach his goal. which ultimately leads to Kyoshi Island burning down. however, they are a few things that need to be said here. he never steps a foot on Kyoshi Island with the intention of burning it. that’s actually where it diverges from Jet. Zuko is extremely short sighted and his only goal is to find Aang. nothing. else. which differentiates him from his sister especially. who wanders through the earth kingdom while yes chasing Aang but also never stopping (or at least trying) to expend the FN’s power in the EK. Kyoshi island burning down comes actually from him being shitty at managing his firebending (and his crew) in season 1. it’s quite literally collateral damage and most of the damage on Kyoshi Island actually comes from Zuko’s soldiers (who we never actually see receiving orders that would indicate Zuko wanting to burn the island. he only says “I want the Avatar” before splitting up, and go rewatch the scene if you don’t believe me). we do actually see Zuko shooting a few fireballs at Aang but we see only one of them actually hitting the cabins. so it would be logical to assume that it was Zuko’s crew, while fighting the Kyoshi Warriors that did it. after the gaang left, Katara even says “he would have destroyed the whole place” meaning it wasn’t destroyed. and then Aang eventually saves the village and Zuko and his crew leave.

what I’m trying to say with this is that I cannot keep seeing people actually demonising and adultifying Jet and Zuko’s actions (especially at the very beginning where both of them are clearly villains with the narrative intent of doing heinous things) with using these two specific scenes, where, ultimately, no one got hurt (except Sokka & Aang while fighting Jet and the Kyoshi Warriors while fighting Zuko).

this post isn’t me denying what they did. at the end of the day, Gaipan got destroyed and Kyoshi Island lost a lot of infrastructure and cabins. this post is me explaining why I’m tired of the over exaggerated claims in regards of these two characters.

the problem with this fandom is that people will talk about Jet and Zuko’s actions in episode 10 and episode 4 like they would talk about Long Feng’s actions or Ozai’s actions.

like, no, two indoctrinated traumatised teenage boys in a war cannot be held accountable in the same way that two adults (who funnily actually did kill people !) are held accountable. like, textually by LAW they cannot be held accountable in the same way. because of their age, because of the circumstances, the consequences, etc etc.

and what’s even more important is that both actually do their best to make amends. even though doing this after years of indoctrination is actually hard. jet dies while doing so and Zuko nearly dies at the hand of his father for doing so. (and that’s without even talking about his actions as a Firelord)

you can dislike Jet and Zuko as characters. but the hate these two get will always look ridiculous at the end of the day. because it’s either completely exaggerated or out of context or doesn’t apply to them because they actually did change. and did try to make amends.

again, this is not me saying that they weren’t villains at the beginning of the series. this is also not me saying that these actions are excusable or even remotely okay. no, it’s me begging the fandom to just use their brain for two fucking seconds. it’s me begging the fandom to just understand what the war and it’s consequences does to people, especially children. on all sides of the war. especially war children.

[missydurdenknowsbest]

Been there, done that.

The third year is currently reaching its end and there’s a tint of desperation in my voice whenever someone asks me “how’s it going”…

Great Gwendolyn, just great. Like the past 39583625 years 🤡

he was "reaching the end" of his phd thesis for like the 3rd year in a row which i guess is a common state but still dhdhhd

[akaessi]

how are people finding where to publish their articles as a recent graduate? Like I'm currently writing an article in the vein of historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and literacy studies....but like...where does it go?

[fan-a-tink]

too many gifs to make, never enough time.