#grad school
16 Nov 2021
thinking about captive women in Homer’s Iliad & Euripides’ Andromache
07 Nov 2021
working on Euripides’ Andromache
12 October 2021
was having an unproductive day (academic wise), but sat down at 9.30pm and bashed out an outline for this thesis section in the space of an hour! ready to write up tomorrow
looking for studyblrs (especially postgrad humanities) that post mainly original content! Is there anyone out there?
6 October 2021; 17.10pm
back in my uni office, writing about Sophocles’ Women of Trachis
2 October 2021
got a lot of thesis writing done today
1 October 2021
getting organized
things i need to do this week, off the top of my head:
send E. the details re. our abstract for the conference on Mondaymeeting with supervisors on Tuesday at 10am, so prepare how to present your data.public engagement training 8.30-15.30 on Wednesdayxray at L. building at 10.45 and VACCINATION at 12.14 on ThursdaySEND EMAIL TO TESOL GROUP FOR HOSTING MEETING & SET UP MEETINGsend the abstract to the conference on endangered languages by Fridayattend talk: tlang by chinese/english bilinguals in diverse contexts on Friday, 14.30-16.00- SEND L.E. DOCUMENTS OFF on Friday
- APPLY TO HELD SUMMER SCHOOL!! DEADLINE JUNE 1ST
further notes:
- a&a will send me previous PhD students’ theses as examples
- meet A. in June in Glasgow?
- end of June: deadline for first draft
- look into Lippi-Green and ask A for those two sources
- post on Plansız Şeyler to advertise TESOL multiling edu chat
- email A. again for a few other backup conferences for the findings chapter, the ones you found last night. try to also look for ones that will publish proceedings!
ideally:
- write 750 words for the findings 1 chapter after supervisory meeting by Sunday. this might be affected by the sheer amount of things you need to do + vaccination side effects, so don’t stress too much!
- translate 500 words for the project
PROOFREADING DUE BY END OF MONTH- STOP APPLYING TO JOBS
GRAD SCHOOL HERE I COME!!!!!
I got into the MBA program at my top school! I’m so excited to start next spring! #gohogs
Anyone else suffering from major college burnout? What do you do to overcome it?
I totally forgot about this post, and wow, I made it almost 4 years ago now! Then I was about to graduate with my B.A. in Classical Studies.
If you had asked me back in 2018 if I thought my life would be like this, I would tell you that I couldn’t even imagine it. I had been in school so long and had so many expectations. A lot of those expectations didn’t happen, and I absolutely had burnout from school.
Now, in January, 2022, it has been over a year since I got my M.A. in Classical Studies, I am living in Canada, married to the most amazing person and I have two crazy and wonderful dogs. I am living the life I want to live. My expectations from years ago are definitely not my expectations now (especially with a pandemic going on). My expectations now are more realistic, but also focused on what would give me a happy and contented life.
In answer to the question from my original post, I don’t think I really did overcome college burnout. I did have a lot of fun in grad school though, and I met lifelong friends and loves, and I have had many wonderful experiences. I’m just so pleased with where I am now compared to where I was in 2018, and I know I was doing relatively well then too.
Anyone worried about how to prepare for your MSW grad school interview, Here are the questions I was asked verbally at my grad school interview. Please everyone feel free to add the questions you were asked to alleviate some of the stress that prospective MSW candidates face. This is obviously paraphrased to the best of my ability.
Section 1) Why did you choose social work? Why this program?
Section 2) What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?
Section 3) What are your future short term plans/goals? Long term plans/goals?
Section 4) What abilities do you bring to the MSW program?
Section 5) Do you think the learning process or grades are more important?
Section 6) How do you contribute to the value of service? What population do you feel you have the least experience with? What population do you feel the most uncomfortable with?
This is from the written section- we had an hour.
Section 7) How would you respond to someone in class who states that LGTBQIA students bring oppression on themselves by “choosing” to be gay?
Section 8) If you thought you did really good on a paper and then your grade was low, what would you do?
Section 9) (This was the weirdest question) If your professor was wearing an outfit that you found distracting or affected your learning, how would you handle this?
My interview lasted about 2 ½ hours. I hope this helps. Good luck to all of us.
hey everyone! I will be starting grad school next month, and I’m getting really nervous about the workload. I’m going for my PhD in neuroscience. does anyone have any advice for their first year of grad school? I don’t want to overwork and get burnout.
I got a fellowship from one of the grad schools I applied to
The grad student I work with and I became temporary guardians of a three year old. The three year old turned out to be a clone of the grad student’s girlfriend. I have never met this woman.
Person who’s on the same side of the argument as you, but also has the worst takes about it you’ve ever seen in your life
#yes yes we’ve all been on tumblr (via @mylordshesacactus)
when you notice a bunch of papers in your area citing this one old paper and you find a PDF of it and it’s only in German and as far as you can tell no one has ever translated it and so you pop it into google translate and start going through it to make sure the translation makes sense (it doesn’t) and then it slowly starts to dawn on you that some guy in 1934 had the same project proposal as you but he didn’t even know what DNA was
is it worth designing your committee entirely around who gives (relatively) easy comprehensive exams
Taking a nap, the grad student becomes more productive.
Making remarkable progress on his research, the grad student wonders what disastrous mistake will eventually blow up in his face.
