Graduate Students of the PPK, Assemble!

Thessaly · **Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:12 pm

Discount wrote:

Thessaly wrote:

Does anyone else occasionally look for jobs when you feel tired of all this and then get even MORE depressed because there are no interesting jobs right now that you even qualify for? Worst!

This, but the jobs available that I'm qualified for are what I did before entering grad school.

On a higher note, just a couple more months, the bar exam, then I get to be a real person again! A potentially unemployed and indebted real person, but I'll actually be able to garden this year! And see friends! That I'm sure I have somewhere!

Yeah. Some of that too. Waaah waaah. It's like the world is laughing at our poor, poor choices.

But that's awesome that you're almost done! You can always make new friends with other unemployed gardening lawyers!

AutumnLeaves · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:25 pm

Got a perfect score on a paper. Confidence restored.

starry · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:08 pm

congrats on the perfect score, autumn.

I'm working on a masters in math. non-thesis. I'm taking two classes this semester in preparation for my comps at the end of the semester. usually I do this one class at a time, so I'll be halfway done in May with 2.5 years to go. I look forward to going back to one class - two on top of a full time job is just too much.

web comics? xkcd.com

Gulliver · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:42 pm

I got a not brilliant, not horrific result for my last essay! It was a pile of shiitake, so that's really saying something.

Phoenix · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:44 pm

I'm having to stop and get out my notebook even on my way home from work. My brain won't stop brainstorming! It's constantly coming up with new titles and cross-references and ideas and stuff. I really hope it will shut down and let me sleep. Soon.

Invictus · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:23 pm **Posts:** 2463

I just started my final class for my masters. 8 weeks culminating in a comprehensive exam. Barf.

witchcitylee · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:05 am

I earned an MA in English 2 years ago. I loved my grad school experience, because all I did was read great books! It's nice to be out and to no longer have research and conference papers hanging over my head, but I enjoyed school. I wish I'd been that on top of things when I was an undergrad, but you live and learn. Good luck to all the current students here!

couroupita · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:44 pm

This grad school stuff is killing me. I'm a fifth-year, everyone in my lab who is also a fifth-year has a job/post-doc lined up and is ready to graduate in the fall. I have no idea when I'm going to finish or what I'm going to do after graduation (I want to switch fields). And to top it off, I have a research progress presentation on Thursday but I have no good results to show. I'm so stressed out all the time that I have a constant upset stomach, panic attacks, and insomnia. UGH, grad school is the worst!!! I wish I could go back in time to tell pre-grad school me to choose another path of study.

/rant. That felt good. Thanks for reading!

P-J · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:56 pm

So… anyone else not actually taking break over spring break?

philadelphegan · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:01 am

P-J wrote:

So… anyone else not actually taking break over spring break?

I am, because I'm teaching afterwards (we're on quarters so our Spring term starts after break) so I will need to re-energize. You?

Thessaly · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:29 am

Hugs to couroupita!

I'm not taking a break. I need to keep lining up interviews.

B_A_D · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:38 am

I will be one of you next fall/January!

pastabake · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:04 am

I'm taking a break! I obsessively did work last Friday, then took the bus up to NYC and brought no homework whatsoever.

Leaving either tonight or tomorrow, though, and then it's nose to the grindstone.

P-J · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:55 pm

philadelphegan wrote:

P-J wrote:

So… anyone else not actually taking break over spring break?

I am, because I'm teaching afterwards (we're on quarters so our Spring term starts after break) so I will need to re-energize. You?

I don't think I can afford to at this point, which is kind of disappointing. I might try to take a full day off though, so maybe that will work out!

philadelphegan · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:01 pm

B_A_D wrote:

I will be one of you next fall/January!

Welcome to our special corner of hell! What will you be studying, and where?

lutin · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:25 pm

I've said this elsewhere, but I want to say it twice because SQUEE

lutin wrote:

A couple of months ago, I wrote Famous Scientist #1 and asked if she would like to collaborate with me on a project. She said yes, and we're now knee-deep in it, which is awesome. Today, she wrote to say that she and her colleague, Famous Scientist #2, have been working together on a project which is "right up [my] alley" and do I want in? Um. YES. YES! So awesome.

Whimbrella · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:15 pm

lutin wrote:

I've said this elsewhere, but I want to say it twice because SQUEE

lutin wrote:

A couple of months ago, I wrote Famous Scientist #1 and asked if she would like to collaborate with me on a project. She said yes, and we're now knee-deep in it, which is awesome. Today, she wrote to say that she and her colleague, Famous Scientist #2, have been working together on a project which is "right up [my] alley" and do I want in? Um. YES. YES! So awesome.

Squee indeed! That's fantastic lutin, congrats. This would be my dream.

bekki · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:49 am

I think i keep screwing everything up. Also, I went to sleep at 10 and woke up at 12:30. What a good night's sleep. At least I'll be home by...6 pm or so tomorrow. Or is it today?

Meggs · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:49 pm **Posts:** 9136

Last class tomorrow, then full out on essay writing and then dissertation stuff.

lutin · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:47 am

Rock it!

starrynight87 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:31 pm

I can't focus . . . it's too beautiful outside. I don't want to write two papers!

AutumnLeaves · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 8:28 am

I got the final grade from one of my classes back, and I have somehow managed an A-!
I just took a final exam for the other class, and I am sitting, waiting, and wishing....

veggiepalooza · **Joined:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:36 am **Posts:** 230

Any grad students here that are nonscience and fully funded? I am deciding between MSW or MPH or PsyD and it seems to be a whole different world than my boyfriend who will be going to grad school for physics next year

pastabake · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 9:46 am

veggiepalooza wrote:

Any grad students here that are nonscience and fully funded? I am deciding between MSW or MPH or PsyD and it seems to be a whole different world than my boyfriend who will be going to grad school for physics next year

My friend is fully-funded in an english PhD program, but pretty sure that's the exception rather than the rule. Everyone I know in an MSW or MPH program is relying on loans.

Desdemona · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 3:23 pm

pastabake wrote:

veggiepalooza wrote:

Any grad students here that are nonscience and fully funded? I am deciding between MSW or MPH or PsyD and it seems to be a whole different world than my boyfriend who will be going to grad school for physics next year

My friend is fully-funded in an english PhD program, but pretty sure that's the exception rather than the rule. Everyone I know in an MSW or MPH program is relying on loans.

I am also fully funded in my PhD program, along with a stipend. I also turned in my final paper of the spring semester which means that I have Officially Survived my first year!!! (Of course, I've got a two-day teaching workshop next week, and will be studying French over the summer, but still: I'm feeling pretty chuffed. And ready for a guilt-free nap!)

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