the positive side of taking my dog to my research site is that she helped me find organisms I might otherwise have missed
….the negative side is that she did this by either stepping on them without noticing or trying to eat them
Tag: grad school hell
tipsy thesis-ing is an Experience
thesis defense in T-11 days
my best thesis moment of the weekend was sitting in a starbucks weeping silently into my laptop because an academic article had quoted The Lorax
thesis editing highlights: I found a sentence with eight clauses… which I thought was bad until I found I had a sentence with fourteen clauses.
hilariously, my section on the importance of brevity and clarity in interpretative writing is two pages of the densest and most verbose academic language possible
thesis editing highlights: I found a sentence with eight clauses… which I thought was bad until I found I had a sentence with fourteen clauses.
current mood: hiding from my problems thesis
hi everyone my final thesis draft is due tomorrow so I am Dying and also blocking social media until tomorrow evening. if I don’t return, assume my thesis chair had me killed for a leaving in a three-page long paragraph
I will never again forget to bring a sketchbook to this class. I’ve been drawing on the back of an old envelope, and I just ran out of envelope
after having been in an ecology class where animals were talked about in terms of ‘populations’ and ‘organisms’, being in a marine policy class where they’re instead referred to as ‘living resources’ is really fucking jarring
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 