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 […]

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 […]

A series of brainfarts on why 20-min conference presentations to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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’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 […]

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 […]

This is a completely useless but mildly entertaining tongue-in-cheek observation […]

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 […]