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Tag Archives: grad school
Safety nets
The zomg grad school carnival!!!1 is now posted over at 49 Percent, so head on over and read all the wonderful posts that Samia has collected for us. One issue that I’ve been ruminating on for a while is whether … Continue reading
Birthday cat and lab stuff.
Sorry for the radio silence yesterday. I had a big day full of thesising, teaching Undergrad T how to filter his samples, cleaning grime off of the evaporimeter (Labmate J swears by toothpaste for this job, but I didn’t have … Continue reading
More thesising.
K wants to go see Despicable Me today, which I desperately want to see, but I had to say no because I was counting on working on my thesis today. Infinite sadfaces. We were actually supposed to go see it … Continue reading
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Tagged grad life, grad school, thesising
I’m a nerd and K is a safari explorer.
My own mother called me a nerd on facebook because I was gushing about nephrophysiology during lecture this morning. THANKS MOM! I love you too. K is at his first day of Real Job today. He showed me the uniform. … Continue reading
Weird things professors do.
I got my thesis proposal back from my advisor this morning, and I’ve spent most of the afternoon going over his comments and making revisions while K and his friend kill aliens on the couch next to me. Friend brought … Continue reading
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Tagged grad life, grad school, links, shit my advisor says, thesising
Culture shock and grad school identities
In my second post for Samia’s zomg grad skool carnival!!!1, I’m going to attack a different question. Samia asks, “How has the academic culture affected your navigation through multiple identities? Was there a culture shock involved?” When I first became … Continue reading
What I wish I knew when I started grad school
For the zomg grad skool carnival!!!1 Samia wants to know: What do you wish you’d known going in? What are you struggling with now? It’d be really awesome if people could address more than just the academic portion of graduate … Continue reading
Moving!
Our lab is moving! Our floor got taken over by a different department, so they’re moving us to a different floor in the same building (fortunately, since it was almost 100*F outside today, and this process would be a lot … Continue reading
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Tagged grad school, lab stuff, shit my advisor says
Committees.
I found out recently that I’ve been nominated for a couple of departmental committees for next year. I don’t know if this is typical of R1 universities, but our graduate student organization appoints graduate seats (typically one or two) in … Continue reading
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Honestly, I didn’t even know the planet existed at that hour of the morning.
I just received the official word on my TA assignment for fall, and it turns out I will be teaching human physiology again, for the third time in a row. I have mixed feelings about this. Pros: – The subject … Continue reading
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Tagged complaining, grad life, grad school, teaching
