“my buddy from undergrad, who now specializes in mid-19th century burials, collects historic mortuary supply catalogs as a hobby and she was able to identify these coffin screws for us”
– our guest lecturer, proving why archeologists are amazing
Tag: grad school hell
I always feel so underdressed in the law building
I’m going to dream of bleeds and crop marks and margins and fucking kerning tonight
if only I was as committed to my schoolwork as I am to writing blog posts about the various horrible ways to die when shipwrecked.
why can I quickly and easily write a six-page article on surviving antarctic/nautical disasters but, despite being due tomorrow, chapter 1 of my thesis is nothing more than a single sentence and a blinking cursor?
esmedelabrume replied to your post: on a related note, fair warning to all y’all who…
Sweet baby Jesus good luck with your thesis. I let mine get away from me. I’m now in year 4 of trying to figure out how to keep it from becoming a dissertation. //goodvibes//
thank you! same to you, and good luck…. not making it into a dissertation. that sounds stressful.
starshield1943 replied to your post: on a related note, fair warning to all y’all who…
Good luck and you can do this
thnx!
on a related note, fair warning to all y’all who just recently followed me: I’m in my last year of a master’s degree, so this blog is going to devolve into art history reblogs and shrieking about my thesis in fairly short order
every single unread email in my inbox is time-sensitive and/or important and they multiply every time I check
I thought grad school was bad LAST year but boy howdy was I unprepared for the Thesis Experience
@calicovirus – I’m entirely unsurprised. long live bureaucracy, I guess. 😐
@bandana12 – yeah, and that is a totally reasonable security precaution for the Department of Defense. I, however, am just working as a contractor for the NPS, and if hackers got into the documents I wish to transfer all they’d find is a bunch of historical photos of a company of turn-of-the-century soldiers in alaska, some very attractive labels about said photos, and a pie chart that took me three hours.
“the federal government cannot use dropbox” – my professor, explaining why we have to hand-deliver a flash drive containing all our exhibit graphics files to the national park.
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 