#If I was a phd student I might

[nobodysdaydreams]

yay. I am so smart. Let me see if I can guess again. you have been a teacher assistant while in grad school?

Ha! Pride goes before the fall my friend. No, I have not.

[leonardcohenofficial]

the two biggest pieces of advice that i would express to anyone thinking about grad school are

1) do not pay for grad school. i am dead serious on this one. this was the number one thing every single professor i had in undergrad expressed to me. going to a grad school that doesn’t offer tuition remission or teaching or any type of funding so you can complete the work you need to do is not worth going into debt for don’t do it don’t do it don’t do it because—

2) besides the obvious (the degree) grad school offer you two things (ideally they offer both); training or access. by training i mean rigorous high level hands on practice honing your skills in your chosen field; by access i mean connection to people/institutions/funding to help support whatever work or research you’re doing. (i think that at least in the arts broadly speaking, it is easier to find training than it is to gain access.) i think it’s extremely important to weigh out what you’re getting out of a specific program and decide not only what is more important to you but also what opportunities a school is offering you

[legogradstudent]

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

[posallys]

I just talked to one of my profs (I love him) and he compared me to a student of his that started her phd at MIT in microbiology this year (I love him) every time I talk to this man I come out feeling like I just had a hype session (I love him) he's gonna write me a baller rec letter (I love him)

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

help a very nervous and shy phd student tried flirting with me, bought me a drink (first time this happened since 2018. i asked for juice bc alcohol is yucky), and then his bald professor completely ignored that he has already tried making moves on me, and started flirting with me too 😭 bruh you shouldn't sabotage your own protege like that! phd student for some reason didn't want to speak in czech/polish and barely knew some english, meanwhile his professor could speak with me in polish with a very cute czech accent

[vandalizedheart]

all of our tails muses should be best friends.

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

I know I am a chronic complainer on this Webbed Site. But honestly. Praise be to God for my class schedule this year. Earliest class is at 11AM this semester and that’s only 2 days a week. Next semester my earliest is at 12:30. I get Fridays off this semester. I have no labs eating up non-credited time. Idk what’s gonna happen after college but I’m straight up chillin schedule-wise this year.

[max1461]

hello, since you know a lot about linguistics (genuine compliment) i was wondering what your analysis of the phrase "[character] is so" (without any word after 'so') as so describe a character that is unusual/eccentric in a way the speaker likes. the adjective deletion feels weird. is there a plausible analysis based on "intentional abrupt end of speech" as a lexeme. please tell me there is.

I don't have a good analysis of this construction off the top of my head, although I can say that explaining it by positing an "abrupt end of sentence" lexeme is probably not the most parsimonious one. It looks to me like perhaps it's a headless adjective phrase, in the same way that something like "the blind" is a headless noun phrase.

[kissycat]

Oh god. 5 months from today I will lose student status. Bro I've never been anything else What will I do

[casbitchh]

so the early career award at this conference i’m at is open to people <2 yrs post phd so i JUST qualify (defended 1 yr 10.5 months ago) and my presentations went really really well and my old advisor is on the organising committee and he said he was pushing for me to get it and i don’t really care about this sort of thing but ive literally never won an award like this before and its been such a shit couple of weeks that i really really want it and i really hope i get it

[catboyfurina]

its a little bit funny that sometimes people on tumblr are like 'wow the reading comprehension here is so bad clearly everyone is lying about being academics/professionals/etc' like. my reading comprehension was wayyyyy better before i went back to college... my brain before studying and after studying do not have the same abilities o,o

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

* using "accepted for publication" as the metric because I realise things sometimes take years to actually come out. in this case i mean peer-reviewed academic publications (but postgrad journals etc count, it doesn't have to be a fancy prestigious thing, i just mean as opposed to a 500-word column in your uni's newspaper or something)

i guess if you're in the kind of field where papers have many authors and you get to be in the list because you're a member of that lab, even if you didn't write the paper, that also counts? i don't really know how stem publications work tho. i am in a field where most articles are single author, sometimes two authors but rarely more

honestly this is just curiosity on my part. it's pretty limited data since i won't know what fields people are in (or if you sought publication sooner but it didn't work out) but i just wanna get a sense of what's typical

[humanitys-strongest-bamf]

HELP

ok this obviously isn't actually an emergency or anything but

i want to start a slow-burn modern!au multi-chapter fic, where reader and levi are forced to be roommates and transition from reluctant acquaintances to lovers uwu. i'm having reader be either a sophomore or junior in undergrad, but i'm stuck on what i want levi as! he'd be a few years older but i can't tell which of these three i'd want the most:

please vote and reblog! i'm really excited to get this series started

[good-night-space-kid]

Just spent 4 hours doing the very scary thing of showing up to a hyper specific event all alone and talking to people to try to find a grad school advisor. Very scary and may or may not have been useful!

[fideidefenswhore]

anyways....when is boleyn, the musical coming out, again?

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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