#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.

[legogradstudent]

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

[ante--meridiem]

Vaguely disconcerted that the office I was told (twice! I double checked) was mine has new temporary names added to the door but none of those names are mine.

[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)

[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?

[smute]

so im moving back home next month to save some money during my last semester of grad school, and as grateful as i am for even having that option, a not so small part of me is very scared that it may turn out to be... not quite as temporary as i am currently hoping it will be🙂

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[thescrcservices]

Collaborative Writing: Tips for Co-Authoring Research Papers

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