Conference camaraderie.
I always appreciate my good friends in academia extra much during conferences: 1) I like that there is always a backchannel or conversational thread in which we muse about little […]
Facebook, Workbook.
My favourite things about using Facebook for collaborative academic work: 1) Intermittent intimacies, when my peers truncate conversations with mundane life updates (i.e. childminding, chores, daily crises). We see […]
Post-PhD, Limbo, and Closure.
After a 23-week wait, I finally passed my PhD two weeks ago. I told one of my besties I expected the afterglow to last a grand total of three days. In […]
Academia, mean girls, and politicking.
I’ve been trying to work out my politic as an academic and ethnographer. Some of these thoughts were formed during my serial-conferencing this year, because conferences are where young/junior/emergent academics 1) learn to […]
Premature nostalgia at my last conference as a postgrad.
It is 2341hrs. In theory, I am meant to be […]
Academica Dramatica x Packaging Intellect at Conference Presentations.
A series of brainfarts on why 20-min conference presentations to […]
I want to be an academic.
Today, I’ve just wrapped up the first of a string of conferences to end off 2015. It’s 0218hrs. I’m on a squishy air mattress, half trying to edit a paper, half […]
The bigger picture.
Traveling as a grad student on a very tight budget: You book the cheapest mode of transport with the most transits at the most inconvenient hours. You cook your meals […]
Short-circuit.
Reflecting on how much I paid for this degree, my education is the most expensive thing I own but I’m not sure if it’s the most valuable. This is always […]
I think kindness in academia is underrated.
I’ve just spent the last five weeks meeting an assortment of academics in Jönköping, Borås, Stockholm, and Göteborg at seminars, in meetings, at fika, and once on a public bus. As […]
Academica Dramatica x To-do Lists
Academic pals, we have survived yet another year! This is your friendly neighbourhood reminder that to-do lists are forever. Hypothesis: To-do lists are abysses. Test: Have been slowly striking things […]
Academica Dramatica x Graduation Ceremonies
wishcrys attends her partner’s graduation ceremony and internally monologues through 120 minutes of officious sitting. Graduation ceremonies for parents are like the first day of preschool all over again. All […]
Musical ambience and intellectual writing.
I am physically unable to write without being plugged in to some form of music. And I also listen to my favourite tracks to death. I feel like my yet-to-be-written […]
This semester, I pledge to
1) have lunch away from my work desk as much as possible because I need air and some form of social interaction with nature and/or people 2) set some time […]
Academica Dramatica x Life Advice.
Wise words from a senior academic: “You should never feel ‘small’! After all, you know far more about your research topic than anyone else. So don’t let some academic looking […]
Academica Dramatica x Negotiating Intellect at Conference Questioning (sort of…)
This is a completely useless but mildly entertaining tongue-in-cheek observation […]
Academica Dramatica x Academic Angels
This is going to be long. As a third year PhD candidate who is plagued by the impostor syndrome, I find myself the most under-qualified, out-of-place, socially awkward person in […]
Reeducating my writing habits.
I don’t know about you, but I would definitely pass out and die in a marathon. My writing habit is to, to borrow from the ever fabulous Mean Girls, “word […]
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