Graduate Students of the PPK, Assemble!

Desdemona · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:13 am

Waiting for my tea to steep so I can drive a stake through the heart of Paper #2 today or tomorrow, then it's on to Paper #3. (After which comes a four week break in which I can cook, bake, hang out with friends, screw around on the PPK, and read whatever I want with no guilt whosoever!!!)

pastabake · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:32 am

Desdemona wrote:

read whatever I want

I cannot WAIT for this. I perused the new and noteworthy section of the library for like 20 minutes yesterday and got out 4 books, all of which are waiting patiently in a pile next to my bed. So excited.

lutin · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:49 am

Totally just submitted that first year report draft. 21k words. bisques.

HOORAY for surprise reading! Sounds great!

lutin · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:33 pm

ee! I just submitted my first solo journal article - to a journal with a finicky editor. I don't know whether to be excited/anxious or relieved it's gone.

P-J · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:21 pm

Yay!!! Congrats Lutin!!

smoothie · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:38 pm

you guys are all badass and i can't wait to be done with my adult high school course and start on my bachelors degree! and my masters degree! it will be geekilicious. just one more year..

Desdemona · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:49 pm

smoothie wrote:

you guys are all badass and i can't wait to be done with my adult high school course and start on my bachelors degree! and my masters degree! it will be geekilicious. just one more year..

You! I for one cannot wait to welcome you into the sleep-deprived, lifeless, self-pitying black hole of grad school! (No, seriously - it's awesome. We're not bad people, we just made a terrible life choice!)

kimba · **Joined:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:44 pm **Posts:** 1933

Desdemona wrote:

smoothie wrote:

you guys are all badass and i can't wait to be done with my adult high school course and start on my bachelors degree! and my masters degree! it will be geekilicious. just one more year..

You! I for one cannot wait to welcome you into the sleep-deprived, lifeless, self-pitying black hole of grad school! (No, seriously - it's awesome. We're not bad people, we just made a terrible life choice!)

This is so funny! Poor PhD students.

Meggs · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:49 pm **Posts:** 9181

Up at 2 am for some reason. As good a time as any to resume work on the things I need to do.
Dissertation supervisor got back to me and requested three additional documents. As if I didn't have work this weekend or anything else to do. I'm not prepared at all. I'm not ready for this.

calcuhater · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:57 pm

i am giving up on being a grad student. i already have one graduate degree and i just...don't care anymore.

let me tell you: it feels pretty good right now. i mean, depressing because i'm a failure, but amazing because i will have some time to live life.

camuscando · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:34 am

This semester has been an over-achievers' worst nightmare. My only "real A" was in Small Animal Nutrition, because Pharmacology, Bacteriology, and Pathology 2 destroyed my will to live and broke me down into a pile of mush.

kimba · **Joined:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:44 pm **Posts:** 1933

calcuhater wrote:

i am giving up on being a grad student. i already have one graduate degree and i just...don't care anymore.

let me tell you: it feels pretty good right now. i mean, depressing because i'm a failure, but amazing because i will have some time to live life.

I hope your decision makes you happy! You're not a failure for doing what's right for you!

kimba · **Joined:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:44 pm **Posts:** 1933

I have basically finished my last paper. I just need to do some final editing and turn it in today before 3pm. Here's to being really truly almost done!

Meggs · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:49 pm **Posts:** 9181

Second essay submitted.
Just writing up my consent form, tweaking my questionnaire, and finalising my interview questions now.

Congrats, kimba!

Chipmunk · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:07 pm

PhD done. Though I still need to wait for the bound copies to come back and the final rubber stamp.

Robynn · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:17 pm

Just submitted the first round of edits on my MSc thesis to my supervisor!!! So excited!!!! :)

Thessaly · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:43 pm

Chipmunk wrote:

PhD done. Though I still need to wait for the bound copies to come back and the final rubber stamp.

Yay! That's so exciting!

First interview for data collection coming up this afternoon! Hopefully these questions aren't as silly sounding as I worry that they are.

lutin · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:34 pm

Congrats chipmunk!
Ad, you can totally rock that data collectioning, thessaly!

Meggs · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:49 pm **Posts:** 9181

Congrats, chipmunk and Robynn!
Thessaly, I'm sure it's going to be great!

lutin · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:55 pm

I missed your note Robynn! Congrats to you, too!

kimba · **Joined:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:44 pm **Posts:** 1933

Congrats, Chipmunk!!!

I turned in my last paper, so MPH done!!!! It feels like forever ago that I started the program (2006) because I have been doing it part time. I am so happy to be finished. I might start crying.

Thessaly · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:19 pm

kimba wrote:

Congrats, Chipmunk!!!

I turned in my last paper, so MPH done!!!! It feels like forever ago that I started the program (2006) because I have been doing it part time. I am so happy to be finished. I might start crying.

I didn't know you were doing an MPH! Hurray for public health! and congrats!

bekki · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:05 pm

Just reading through here I'm excited for all of you who are finishing up big papers just getting through the semester. This was my first one as a grad student, and I kind of got taken by surprise. I already have a study plan, complete with milestones and rewards (like ordering zoya polish) mapped out for staying on track.

Best of luck to whoever hasn't gotten grades back yet (that would be me, too). I did just get one major project grade back that rocked. I'm more glad about that one than any other single grade because it was a team project (well, a paired project) and I kept having major issues with things beyond my control. Screwing up my own grade would be bad...screwing up someone else's grade would make me leave school.

Desdemona · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:33 pm

Chipmunk wrote:

PhD done. Though I still need to wait for the bound copies to come back and the final rubber stamp.

Amazeballs - congratulations! (So jealous!)

superherogirl · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:36 pm

Chipmunk wrote:

PhD done. Though I still need to wait for the bound copies to come back and the final rubber stamp.

So completely awesome! Congratulations!!

First semester of my PhD program is on the books! Definitely an accomplishment, but at the same time I know I have a LOOOOONG way to go...

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