apparently lucidchart.com is free for students, so I made a little test chart while learning the ropes.
free tip: don’t go to grad school
if anyone wants to improve their academic writing dramatically, pick up a copy of They Say, I Say by Berkenstein and Graff
it’s simple, direct, and game-changing; it’ll make you think about the mechanics of academic debate in a far more systematic way without once being dull or wordy or confusing. 10/10, would build a time machine and give this to my 18-year-old self if I could
we had our first group meeting with all eight of us who share the same thesis committee chair today and she was in the middle of explaining the timeline when I saw a hummingbird hovering outside the conference room window and automatically gasped “HUMMINGBIRD!” aloud and then immediately slapped my hands over my mouth in horror as the professor broke off mid-sentence and everyone spun around in their chairs to look
hire me I disrupt important meetings by pointing out birds
thesis proposal and preliminary lit review submitted. now we wait to see who wants to chair my thesis committee.
in related news, I find out who my thesis chair will be week from today and I’m only not agonizing over it because there is nothing I can do but pray, at this point
@gehayi – my thesis proposal: “alternatives to museums, from someone who has been working guest services all day: go outside. be in the outdoors. leave me and take your crying children with you. enjoy the sunshine somewhere that is not here. please. there is the exit.”
I just realized that the problem I am having with figuring out a thesis topic is that I don’t…. want…… to write about museums….. at all…….
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 