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Actually, you know what? I’m not gonna gatekeep this much information. You want to become an academic?? A real one???
Then here’s how to become an actual academic 📖🕯️
— by: Someone who’s actually becoming an academic
So, the first step might be the most obvious but yet difficult one: you need to be enrolled in an university. Or college. Never understood the difference.
Then, you find the field of study that you love and adore. Not that you just like. Well, I guess like works just fine, but it’s better if you love it because the more you love something the more you want to learn and research about it. And keep in mind that this is going to be your future, all-life-long job. So yeah, find something that you love doing or studying. It can be your favourite course, module or subject. It can even be a very niche thing.
Then, find a professor that teaches or is researching that topic and stick to them like a koala on a tree. I don’t know how it works in your university and/or country, but if you have to write your final dissertation/thesis and your uni requires a tutor, choose them [I could write a separate blog post if you need help with your thesis work]. Ask them to give you extra readings, book recs, tips and tricks on how to become just like them, ask them if they are curating any project, such as a seminar, a congress, an exposition or a cool experiment that’s open to the public. Damn it, ask them if they need someone to help them carry the exams folders, or remind them of some event, or just if they want to have a coffee with you. You might think that all of this is prententious or that it make you possibly look annoying, but this is how it works.
Academic careers are built on connections. The more people you know in your field the more you will be known, the more other academics might want to read your research, your papers, your articles and books. You have to make a name for yourself, and the only way you have is to create relationships in your field of study.
This is why I also advise you to show up. University is like a society. Find conventions, seminars, conferences and exhibitions that interests you or that belong to your chosen field and just go. If you can, ask questions [remember to always introduce yourself, stating your name and surname!], give input. If you go to a museum exhibit and you see people working there or even the curator, have a chat with them. Ask them if you can have their email addresses so you can contact them if you have any further questions.
I have done every single thing in this list. Well, maybe I didn’t carry my professor’s exams folders, but I know a friend who did. I prayed for things to go well. And they did.
If you are curious, I am in my final year of my Bachelor’s in Languages, and I am specializing in Germanic Philology. My dream would be to become a scholar in Norse Studies. Ky thesis will be on the influences that Norse Mythology had on a novel by Sir Walter Scott.
And, even if I am still completing my Bachelor’s, my tutor saw something in me. He invited me to participate in an editing project [that is technically reserved for Master's students] of a Middle English manuscript, and this edition will result in a publication that will have my name on it.
This is why I beg you, start building your connectiond. You never know if your tutor will have a shiny, new project you can be a part of if you don’t try.
Everything else will come naturally at you. Trust the Universe.
Good luck, my fellow future academic! See you in class!
#academia#university#carreer#academic career#scholars#scholar#dark academia#dark academia study#studying#dark academia aesthetic#books#books & libraries#aesthetic#art#light academia aesthetic#light academia#studyblr#how to become a scholar#manifestation
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April fool's? ⁉️ Only for April 1st? ⁉️ That's a weak mindset. That's low perfomance 📉 👎👎 I am a fool every day 🗓 The grind 💪💪💪📈 never stops ❌ ⛔️ I am in it for the long run 🔛🏃♀️ No quitter mindset here 🚫🔝 🏆
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Blog ain’t shit without acht in it
Quick doodles
#art#fanart#my art#original art#Splatoon#Splatoon 3#Splatoon art#Splatoon fanart#Splatoon fan art#Splatoon acht#acht Splatoon#acht#acht mizuta#dedfish#dedf1sh#splatoon dedf1sh#dedf1sh splatoon#anato mizuta#acht dedf1sh#I love this brush#should be doing my homework#my projects for the science fair#everything#but no I’d rather procrastinate until my notes are inevitably low#and my whole academic career is over#for the next 6 years
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the professors shen should never have been forced to share an office
wasn't professor shen the senior being associate professor shen the junior's PhD advisor enough?
#retconning that sj was wearing a tie in the previous drawings so he can take it off and use it to tie sy up#shen jiu's receding hairline vs the world#im just thinking abt how twisted a sy who spent 5+ years under sj's direct influence would be#and now they have to be Colleagues#sy who hates sj and thinks he's full of shit but is also totally obsessed with him and emotionally enmeshed#tshirt saying that this is the one au in which binghe doesn't stand a chance#what is a few semesters worth of 'engaging discussion' to an entire academic career's worth of torment?#he'll do his best though! good luck incoming freshman luo binghe!#toxic yaoi#delicious#cursed scum villain academia au#scumcum#jiuyuan#shen jiu#shen yuan#shen qingqiu#svsss#scum villain#scum villain's self-saving system
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Interested to know other lecturers' thoughts here. The university has just released the latest templates for our assignment briefs, and they now include this table:
I have to select which areas I will allow generative AI to be used for in every assignment brief I write (with the obvious caveat that this is showing them how to use it as a tool, not giving them the green light to generate a whole essay and submit that.)
My immediate thought is that the 'research' section is dangerous, and the 'creative' one is immoral.
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max : ugh, i hate this car.
lando : you just won the race?
lewis : yeah HE won the race, the car has nothing to do with it.
#this post inspired by yesterday's handshake of 4433 and 444#lewis may be max's biggest fan im not sure tho#in 4433 we trust 🙏#im bottling my academic career like norris bottles his chances of winning lol#can't winning with the fastest car REPEATEDLY is definitely a skill issue#some of yall saying “dont be so hard on yourself lando!!” is actually hilarious 😭😭#lewis hamilton#max verstappen#4433#formula 1 incorrect quotes#incorrect formula 1#formula 1#f1 incorrect quotes#incorrect f1 quotes#f1 memes#f1
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”fuck it im gonna have a nap” is always the beginning of an end
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I want to make an Exam Motivation Collage
Please please please drop exam motivation quotes by reblogging, commenting, or putting in the tags. Please.
#quotidian convos#exam#exams#exam season#exam stress#students#career#learning#college#school#high school#school system#student#exam preparation#exam study#study#studying#study motivation#studyblr#study blog#study aesthetic#academic#student life#exam motivation
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me with my 18 year old students that i teach at a college
#everyone is just so mean to them because they're adults now but most of them were literally in high school only a few months ago#and so many of them are far from home and on their own for the first time !!!#and the other professors are so mean like they literally ranted to me about how another professor cursed them out#like !!! bruh!!!! also i think it messes with my head that im teaching foundational class and if i fuck this up#that could fuck up their college career because this class is about how to write essays in college#like holy shit responsibility#but fr i love my students they're so fucking funny and they all call out in class and they straight up are the class full of#'problem children' on academic probation who had to check in with a guidance counselor once a week and i have to monitor and write reports#about once a week as well.#and like idk man im feeling very captain o my captain here if you get my meaning#anyways they're all so funny like they do not care and will say fuck to me and i say fuck back#it's great.#anyways. i'm stoned. they know im a stoner too lol.#originally said 17-20 y/o students but tbh they're all 18 except for the one 17 and the one 20
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Giving a presentation on Möbius Pegged for my sculpture class tomorrow
#gonna try not to laugh#I’m forcing everyone to make Mobius strips#and then I’m presenting sculptures of Klein bottles#(and of course the afformatentioned one)#see this is deranged Loki fan behavior#using my obsession with Mobius m Mobius to further my academic career#Loki#lokius#mobius m mobius
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as someone who was doing academic/professional research and applying to graduate school last year and is doing professional research and applying to graduate school this year the difference in how inaccessible research has become in just TWELVE MONTHS is STARK and so deeply felt. I am lucky enough to have someone’s institutional IDs but it’s insane how I needed that to write the most basic lit reviews/application materials when I spent the last ~5 years in a broke third world public university with almost no institutional access and managed just fine. the destruction and hobbling of sci-hub, libgen, internet archive, and other open source resources is nothing less than mass epistemic violence against global south students and it’s only going to compound every year as the materials these platforms have access to become increasingly dated.
#on academia#research#epistemic injustice#I started of my college career with my professors hand writing the link to libgen and sci-hub on the blackboard#I ended my academic career with my city’s high court essentially killing libgen#the decline has been exponential
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MeraAaaAaaa!!! How dare you bring up having a fwb relationship with alpha!yandere!alhaitham and not expand more on that!! 😭😭😭 I need this. I NEED HIM SO BADLY!!! LAJDKSK
He's actually so frustrating!!! You could be in heat and he will act so unaffected. His restraint is so very commendable; he hardly spares you much reaction and will even cover his nose and say something along the lines of, "You should be more aware of your cycles so that you aren't an inconvenience to others." >:( it's really difficult to know what Alhaitham truly thinks because he's usually so straight-faced and serious, and he takes all the necessary precautions so he won't put himself in a troublesome position. But you beg him, tell him he smells good, cling to him out of biological imperative, and oohhh you're so lucky he's strong enough to resist, if just barely, otherwise he'd have you pinned against the nearest surface right this very moment.
The fwb relationship is established the day he helps you find relief in the midst of your heat. He's just helping you because it would be inconvenient and dangerous to leave you alone when other alphas (who may not have as much restraint or respect as Alhaitham) could be lurking nearby. And he's certain you woudn't want to come out of your heat marked and knocked up by some stranger. Truthfully, he doesn't want you to be marked and bred by someone you hardly know. If it were up to him, he'd rather do those things.
There's no getting rid of him after the fact. You can thank him all you want, buy him lunch out of gratitude, and insist you'll be more cautious going forwards, but Alhaitham is here to stay. He always throws things back in your face. Wasn't it you who begged him for this? Didn't you say you wanted him to be your alpha? He's only following your protocol. :) and, yes, perhaps you did say things like that, but the you who was in heat is vastly different from the you who is not in heat. He just won't drop the matter, reminding you that it's much more beneficial if you engage in mutually beneficial relations with someone you know and trust. What if he hadn't been there to help? What if it was another alpha, one with less restraint? What would you have done? You would have accepted anyone in that state, wouldn't you? And that's exactly the point Alhaitham's trying to make: it's dangerous if you're going to be so careless about your heats.
He does make a good argument. You know that, by biology's design, you will always be at a disadvantage when you're an omega in heat. You know Alhaitham's only looking out for you as a friend should. You know you should feel relieved he's even willing to go through all of the trouble to help you during future heats. And doesn't everyone wish to have a strong, sensible alpha care for them when they're at their most vulnerable?
Alhaitham's infatuation is subtle and so easily hidden. You'll never know he's harboring such an obsession. He only lets it slip when you're in heat because you're too omega-brained to really register the meaning behind his words, and everything he says and does is just music to your ears. He can get away with being possessive and maddeningly infatuated when you're in heat because that's when you're truly his. Though it's all loveless and the two of you are stuck as friends (nothing more, as you always claim) it's hard to ignore the chemistry beyond heat sex. Sometimes you'll spend mornings in bed with him, too lazy to get up, insisting on spending five more minutes in the comforts of his room. Sometimes he brings you breakfast. Sometimes he helps you to the bath. Sometimes it really feels like domestic bliss.
And eventually you'll spend so many heats with him that, the next time you go into heat, your body might even recognize him as your alpha. You really shouldn't tell him to bite you with such a tempting voice. He might just give you exactly what you want, if only to finally make you his and excuse such carelessness on the addictive effects you have on him.
Whatever happens, Alhaitham will have a logical reasoning to explain it away. He always does, and you always believe him.
#genshin chit chat#yandere alhaitham#tw: omegaverse#tw: abo#thinking about alpha akademiya student wanderer who is in a friendly rivalry with you#but the course of your acquaintanceship changes dramatically when you go into heat and he's the only alpha around >:)#omg... alpha wanderer babytrapping you so you're forced to drop out to focus on your pregnancy because overworking yourself when pregnant#won't be healthy for you or the baby#omg he ruins your life and academic career........ too many thoughts orz
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I am sure I've talked about this on here before but I hate hate hate how in academia generally and my field in particular there's just a baseline, often unspoken assumption that you should always be ready and able and willing to uproot your entire life to pursue jobs and opportunities. like if I were in any other occupation "I live in one of the biggest metro areas in the US and would like to stay here at least long enough that my spouse can finish their degree program, but I would not be opposed to settling here long-term" would be a reasonable and completely non-insane thing to say. and yet I feel like the actual options in my field are so narrow for me even in a metro area of something like 18 million people and I worry that inevitably I'm going to disappoint people if I do prioritize staying here after graduation instead of moving to Massachuyorkland for a postdoc/visiting professorship/whatever
#for context see the post i made about an hour ago in which i wrestle with the looming post-phd decision crisis#but really. the whole system is built on the assumption that the default early career academic is single/childless/able-bodied/mobile
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what can you do with a biology degree?
a biology degree opens up a wide range of career opportunities. here are some options:
biologist: study living organisms and their relationship to the environment.
botanist: focus on plant life, including their impact on the environment and potential uses.
zoologist: study animals and their ecosystems.
registered nurse: apply biological knowledge in healthcare settings.
laboratory technician: conduct experiments and maintain lab environments.
biology professor: teach and conduct research at colleges or universities.
forensic scientist: analyze crime scene evidence.
do any of these careers interest you? ❤️nene
#that girl#becoming that girl#study blog#it girl#student life#chaotic academia#productivity#student#academia#it girl aesthetic#nenelonomh#biology#university#university of oxford#university student#universidad#science#ecology#evolution#careers#job#opportunities#employment#uni life#uni student#college student#grad student#stem student#studying#academics
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thinking again about how much musical theatre SUCKS. what do you mean you got offered a university place based entirely on your personal statement and grades. i wrote my statement and got good grades and then i still had to pay £50 to audition for the place, get a train there, stay overnight, perform my stupid little songs and my stupid little dance and my stupid little monologue and then they still said ":/ no thanks".
rejected court jester type shit
#nat.txt#university degrees for academic subjects be wild. i'm jealous. why did i decide this career path.#<- person who got their first drama school rejection of the season and is preparing for like eight more#school cw
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