#phdblr
Me: I absolutely cannot take in another project till summer.
Also me on a Monday morning: Dear XY, I would like to review this book for your journal, would it be possible to send me a reviewer’s copy?
Somebody stop me.
I got pissed because I had to correct insane amount of mistakes in the part of a manuscript written by somebody else.
My dearest (also more senior academic than me): You don’t look pissed anymore, right?
Me: Yeah, I started working on a different project to focus on something else.
My dearest: Congrats, you’ve entered the academic hells cape fully - beating frustration from one part of the job with frustrating yourself with a different part. We’re all insane. No healthy coping mechanisms in sight.
Me: YAAAAAY
…we’re both really trying to take better care of ourselves and have the healthy coping mechanisms, but with rising covid numbers and everything, it’s getting harder once again
here’s a list of things i learnt about myself during my phd:
- i cannot spell for shit
- i definitely work better with a deadline, even if it is self-imposed
- i find ‘big milestones’ very underwhelming
- i do not know when to use ‘lie’ and when to use ‘lay’
- i (still) hate reading feedback
- i love spreadsheets
- i both love and loathe eebo. i will miss you, my mortal enemy.
- i really hate proquest. galegroup is also on thin ice with me after they revamped ecco
- i do not, under any circumstances, belong in academia but i will always love historical and literary research.
- palaeography still scares me
- i work best when listening to korean r&b but the d-2 mixtape is a winner too
- i’m an unhealthy perfectionist – i knew this already but wow, my phd confirmed it
- i enjoy being an educator and i enjoy teaching high school pupils but i’m not sure i’d ever want to be a high school teacher. maybe if a private school pays me enough…
- i love my research topic. a lot. early modern drama is the best.
- i have a lot of research interests. far more than when i started my phd. i might make a list of them one day.
- i often rely on bread to make me feel happy
- i really dislike attending academic conferences but i enjoy organising them
- i want to physically fight both horace walpole and david garrick
- marlowe is still my boy but he has competition from thomas middleton
- i will take every opportunity to talk shit about hamlet
apart from the research genre specific stuff, this is SCARILY similar to my list if i ever made one.
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
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.
My current schedule is something like:
Arise from slumber: 1pm - 4pm
Write/Read: 4pm - 9pm
Eat/Watch Netflix: 9pm - 12am
Write/Read: 12am - 6am
Watch Netflix: 6am - 7am
Sleep: 7am - 1pm
and honestly 11/10, would recommend.
This is the most productive I’ve been in ages.
