#grad school blogging

[whoiskt]

Grad School Q4 - Week 9

Finals Hell. 🙃 Pretty much as bad as the first quarter where I felt like I was dying. Fall quarter amiright?

I am a part of a zine! My Hannibal piece is in here:

Look at that..........I do stuff.................yippee!!

Working on so much at the same time right now I'm so sad. As of this moment I need to finish 4 more illustrations for one class, 3 for another, and then 6 pages of thumbnails for the last one.

I have like 2 days left to get it done. 🙃

Horizontal version of the other piece I posted this week:

Anyways, just gotta finish up and everything will be okie dokie. Then I get to try to make enough money to afford next quarter.

[deadhamlets]

baaaaaa im already writing my antony and cleopatra gender paper for one conference but bg has a lil conference with no theme shpuld i submit for the anorexia incest molestation connection paper ive been dreaming of....

[fiercestpurpose]

things to do today:

find books and email guy

grade papers for class

finish presentation for tomorrow

[peri-helia]

Saw my PHD supervisor, who has been flat out ignoring me for about four months on campus ‘oh we should have a meeting in early Feb’

[mirielvairenen]

Daily chemical safety lesson: do not shoot yourself in the eye with isopropyl alcohol/ rubbing alcohol. While it likely won’t harm you, it hurts like the dickens.

Sublesson a): there is a reason you are supposed to wear safety glasses in the lab

Sublesson b): the eyewash station is very easy to use. It is not easy to clean up

[o-wild-west-wind]

no nut this nanowrimo that i’m celebrating no. that’s enough thanks! no-vember let’s just drink broth and go to bed 👉

[crocwork-clockodile]

I've registered for my courses for my PhD, and I'm so excited about it! It feels like it's finally for real happening. I got into almost all the courses I wanted, but there was one I wanted to register for in the folklore department that was full. I did talk to the professor about registering for it (before I knew it was full) and he said it should be fine but we'll have to fill out a form to get me in lol. Either way, I'm really happy and excited to get started

[maxstudyblr]

Still settling into being back at uni and narrowing down my dissertation topic.

[thebellekeys]

And a reminder that higher education cannot be considered truly democratised if students can still be doomed to poverty with multiple or advanced arts and Humanities degrees...

[outsassing-nero]

17.10.24// really busy, but will make time to visit cute vegan cafes!!

listening to: snow man, one

[ariasmontage]

September 9, 2024

Week 2 of the semester. Monday really is the longest day this time. Not gonna complain at all. Maybe this is the memory of youth.

(but at least let me get a seat on the subway pls 😭)

(i got a seat as soon as I wrote that! 🍀✨)

[whoiskt]

Grad School Q4 - Weeks 7/8

Hitting you with another double whammy because I was in L.A. last Friday and couldn't post. Lightbox Expo went well but I did get sick during it which made it difficult and exhausting. I'm better now though!

Week 7 was mainly getting this style-matching down. As you can see the rendering did the heavy-lifting for that haha

I guess my professor liked how I used a 3D asset for the background (right is the screencap of google sketchup and left is the touched up version) because for our final he assigned me to do more of this kind of work. FOR STAR WARS RIP but whatever I'm coping, and at least this kind of stuff is easy. Like, oh, you want me to use a 3D model instead of painstakingly drawing my own background? Say less.

(Also met the 3D character designer for BES so that was cool! It was interesting to hear about the process of 2D to 3D)

I made a zine! Also had to do an accompanying workshop on networking which came in handy for the expo! Networking goals met!!!

I left some Lloyds each day on the drawing wall.

Anyways, now it's time for finals hell again. 🥲

[nenelonomh]

how to not rot after a long day at school

₊˚ପ⊹ commute home while listening to music or a podcast that you enjoy. remember to be mindful of what you consume.

₊˚ପ⊹ get moving! physical activity can help to clear your mind and boost your energy. try going for a walk, doing some yoga, or even dancing to your favourite music.

₊˚ପ⊹ engage in hobbies such as reading, drawing, or playing a musical instrument.

₊˚ପ⊹ have something to eat! eating a snack can help replenish your energy levels. opt for nutrition over easy energy.

₊˚ପ⊹ make sure to listen to any app time limits set in place to limit screen time. if you take a bus or train, look out the window or people watch.

[fiercestpurpose]

literally any time i get feedback on an assignment i expect it to be terrible, despite experience repeatedly proving that i am, yknow, good at what i do. so here's the one sentence long piece of feedback i've been avoiding all morning:

"I enjoyed this a great deal--some very nice phrasing, and the comparison is apt."

[peri-helia]

I first read this article probably 4 years ago now and coming back to it and one of the few notes to myself is just this:

[unintelligible-screaming]

so i’m re-reading homestuck. currently i’m near the beginning of act 5. assorted thoughts:

1. rose is so fucking funny. fanfic writers never remember this

2. speaking of rose — her classpect means that in fanart and fanfic, her mysterious seer-iness is highly emphasized. but in acts 1 through 4, the mysterious one is jade. DREAM VISIONS! ENIGMATIC HINTS AT PROPHECY! TIME LOOP BULLSHIT! jade is THE mysterious seer-adjacent character. meanwhile, rose acts like she knows what’s going on but she basically never does. as a result, fanfic especially gives the mysterious-seer attributes to rose and jade is just sort of… there. (i am kinda guilty of this myself.) my new 2024 slogan: let jade be enigmatic as fuck!

3. the first time vriska ever appears — unless you count her username appearing without being directly referenced, which happens pretty early — is at the very very edge of a panel, in which you can see one of her horns. that happens a few times pre-act-five, especially in panels that involve terezi. honestly most terezi conversations pre-act-five get funnier if you imagine vriska looking over her shoulder like ::::/ or like ::::D

4. the fandom image of karkat is highly positive. the idea of his character is kinda locked to karkat as he appears in act 6 (maybe late act 5?), and fan depictions of early karkat (pre-sgrub, or simply early act 5) seem to retrospectively plaster his later characterization onto his earlier self. his general assholery is interpreted as blunted grumpiness that no one really takes seriously. that interpretation more or less makes sense for later versions of his character, but it’s startling how genuinely mean he is in early act 5! he’s such a jerk that in a conversation with early act 5 vriska he comes off looking worse! that’s HARD. and a really interesting facet of his character!