Tag: grad school hell

Hey, personal question I may have asked before (I know I thought about it but I don’t think I actually did) – where are you at grad school and what do you technically study? I’m applying for grad school to do antarctic/polar stuff at the moment, and having been told that one of the programmes I’d applied for isn’t going to run anymore because they want to do things with more than 9 students, I’m trying to look for alternatives and thought you might be able to help. If not, no worries :)

Ah, sorry, I’m not, officially, studying polar anything (other than my one arctic studies class this quarter- UW Seattle has a tiny undergrad minor on the subject, and I needed an interdisciplinary), it’s really just an academic hobby of mine. My actual degree is a Master’s of Museology (museum studies). Good luck with your grad school search, though! 

(I think BU has an Antarctic research program for PhD students? and the university of maine has some arctic program iirc) 

I can’t decide whether to take a class on architectural sketching or on plant identification next quarter

I don’t know why I ever thought I could go to grad school and manage to be ‘cohesive’ and ‘directed’ in my studies, honestly

how are we in 2018 with self-driving cars, robots, virtual reality, facial recognition, and smartphones in our pockets that can do basically everything a full-scale computer can, yet embedding an image in a word document without completely destroying the formatting is still beyond us as a society?

oh my god, no one told my canadian professor that monday was a national holiday. I was contemplating emailing him to make sure he knew, because he’d previously implied that the UW wasn’t communicating well with him, but then I was like ‘that might come off as condescending and surely someone who actually works for the university will tell the guest lecturer important things like university closure days’ 

readers, they did not