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Any Grad Students here?
Posted by mattiasx • 8/19/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: graduate students
Are there any bloggers here who are, or who were grad students? I'm starting a Masters next month, and I'm curious as to how many, if any, grad students there are around here.
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Me! I'm doing a PhD in Microbiology
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Oh nice!! Sounds interesting!
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I'm one! I'm doing my masters in Sociology, hopefully graduated before the end of this year ^_^.
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Going to pursue a doctorate afterwards?
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Hmm not so sure ^_^
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Doing a PhD in Creative Writing.-
Well that one is not a surprise! -
Cathy -
If all goes according to plan, I'll be starting a second PhD in October 2010, this time in Management.
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I just finished my degree in Master of Science in Nursing. -
Halfway through a three year candidacy for a dual masters in international affairs and public policy. -
PhD, Philosophy. Been going on too long. Must finish soon.
Actually, I'd be surprised if there weren't a LOT of grad. students on the forums. Something about blogging/blog forums that screams "handy procrastination for people who should be writing other things."
-Mal.-
Tell me about it! My thesis proposal has no front page or summary and by boss won't read it because of it and here I am! jaajajajaja
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So, Mal, you will be a real PhD! I don't know why they call sciences doctorates PhD's, we don't study philosophy, jajajaja
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Yeah...BC is just too tempting and distracting. Reading the discussions on BC is far more interesting than reviewing any literature...anyway, PhD in Logistics/Supply Chain here. -
Aah same here!! I need to read many articles...I don't want too -_-'
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I feel so.............unedumacated
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Because you choose not to suffer? Sounds smart to me.
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yikes I'm just ending my freshman year.... I have sooooo long to go!
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I have a PhD in being awesome.
I was going to be an MD, but I decided school wasn't for me.-
Ah, yes, the University of Bad Assedness. I've heard of that place.
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Does any of you read this comic?
www.phdcomics.com/comics.php
I'm not a grad student, but I knew some who thought it represented them very accurately.
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I know those comics...they really do give a very accurate picture a of grad life...especially that last square above.
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I love PhD comics! I even have a T-shirt from them and have read every single one...procrastination at its maximum expression! jajajajaja
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Yeah, there's even a warning in the Archive page:
"Warning! Reading this entire archive can be hazardous to your research. Proceed with caution and read only in moderation."
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A friend introduced me to that comic awhile back. I loves it.
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I love these comics!!!
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I have a Masters in music performance. I'm going for a second degree, starting in January.-
A 2nd Master? Music-related, too? all the best!
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Thanks! I'm getting a degree in pedagogy, it's like an add-on program that builds on the degree I have and makes me an instrumental teacher. The result will be the equivalent of having gotten a Master in instrumental teaching, but since so many of the classes are the same in the teaching program and in the program I already did, and I don't have to take them again, this add-on thing is only 1,5 years. But technically I guess I will have 2 Masters degrees when I'm done.
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Neat, my Masters is in composition. What was your instrument, or are you a vocalist?
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@Mattias
My main instrument was classical flute. I still play it, but I probably spend more time with the guitar now. Classical flute is kind of a narrow market...
What kind of stuff do you write? Anything online we could listen to? -
I sometimes contribute to soundtracks for independent projects, but I do other stuff just for kicks, too.
There's plenty of stuff online; it's on my website/blog. If you want any specific links, I can PM you a link to my Last.fm profile.
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I'll be graduation from Masters in Educational Management this year... -
i still have 1 more year in finishing my MSIT .. too many paper works haaay -
DeRay: nice to hear from you.
I'm sure you have some "Ph" to go with your "D". I'm also happy to have the old fashioned thing of including all the natural sciences in philosophy: we can all procrastinate together in the name of potentially requried wisdom.
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I used to be a graduate student--but I finished up my degrees almost 7 years ago.
Grad school was the hardest thing I ever did--and without a doubt, the most worthwhile. I hope you have a wonderful advisor because that will make all the difference in the world.-
wrong place.
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Melindaville:
I don't know have anyone with whom to compare my advisor (it's a better word than supervisor which is used here), but I think he's pretty good. He's certainly long suffering.-
Maladjusted--if you have a good feeling about him, then that's a great sign. I teach university classes now--and when my students are considering graduate school, I always advise them to look at the publications of the professor they are interested in working with.
If those publications have lots of names on them--it's a good sign because it means that professor is good about sharing credit with his/her graduate students and that the professor will likely not abuse the grad student.
The professor I worked with was not great about sharing credit--I worked my butt off for him--I once put an entire presentation together--he did absolutely nothing on it and he didn't even acknowledge me in any way--and it infuriated me. I also wrote 2 papers in which I should have been the first author (I wrote the entire thing--he did *nothing.* Yet, he was first author on both of them. Now, I could even see him putting his name on first of ONE of them--but not on both!
This particular man was *very* difficult to work with--and in fact, I ended up switching professors 3 years into my degree. -
In Britain, we have both a PhD advisor and supervisor. At least my university.
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That's awful. Doesn't that become an HR situation when that happens?
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Mattiasx--Yes, I do know of at least one other grad student that he treated the same way.
But you know--academia is such a small world--I honestly felt it would be better for me, professionally, not to rock the boat. At this point, it's over--
The head of the department is aware of some of what happened (there was much more to it that I don't feel comfortable going into here). Hopefully, he will keep his eye on this professor! -
Melinda, your ex-boss sounds some like my ex-boss also! I will write a post about it when I have time to be at home for a while because reliving all that happened still upsets me.
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Deray--he was *more* than my boss--he was my advisor--my major professor. I did work for him as a research assistant and I did my MA under him.
I cannot even go into all that happened--but it was truly horrible. I won't write a post about it even--and in fact, this experience is not in my book (yet).
I'll really look forward to reading your post on your a-hole boss, though--yours sounds like a real dickhead too.
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I started grad school twice-first time a PhD in European lit., second time a masters in couselling and guidance. Lasted one semester each time and quit. I think school's about the silliest thing in the world. Don't know how anyone can take it seriously.-
Because if you have the right mentors and find work that you love to do, it can increase the stock of knowledge in the world, and change one's life.
I wouldn't trade my PhD experience for anything. In fact, I'm volunteering to do it again in another field. -
NP--I have to say, I absolutely loved school. It opened up an entire new world to me--one I had never imagined.
I love learning--LOVE taking classes and as a matter of fact, I think I will always take classes. In fact, I am currently taking a Spanish class.
I don't think education equals intelligence--and I think people can be both happy and successful without going to school--but school can be a wonderful experience.
Education gave me more than I could have ever imagined. It's probably not for everyone--but it far from the silliest thing I have ever done. I learned so much--and I can honestly say that I enjoyed every class I took.
I love teaching today--and I think I am a good teacher. I am really committed to passing along that same love of learning to my students.
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i have done graduation in electronics and communication engineering and right now i am an internet/software engineer
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interesting! I'm in high school yet.
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interesting! I'm in high school yet.
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NP: I love many parts of being a student/hate many things about the academic prestige fight, but Melinda reminded me of one of the best things: i.e. teaching. For the last few years, I've had many tutorials, and now a lecturing one one day a week: and I love this, it makes up for so much of the other nonsense, by which I don't mean reading, thinking, arguing as the schmoozing, the shop-talk about whose getting into what journal, going to which higher institution and other horrors that I could go on about, but won't just to show that I do have some restraint apart from the point where the B.C. text box reaches its outer limits.
Best,
-Mal.-
Mal, Melinda &GC-I can appreciate the passion so many people have for learning, knowledge, books. But I've never shared that passion. I grew up ten minutes from a beach. I used to walk there at night and stare at the horizon and breathe in the warm sea air. Freedom and happiness have always been my twin passions and somehow the cloistered atmosphere of school and study and classroom never suited me.
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As I said, NP--I can see that school is not for everyone. More than half of my friends have never been to college. I have a lot of friends who are artists, musicians, actors, etc--and they are very happy and fulfilled.
But school is not silly for everyone--as I said, it changed my life--and I loved it. I really love learning though--both through school and through life. I don't think that one type of learning is more valid than the other. They are just different. -
O I agree. I meant it just felt silly to me. I wasn't making a general statement, just reflecting my own experience. I'm a rather strange bird when it comes to learning and knowledge. I feel-at least for me-it's just kind of irrelevant.
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Doing a PhD in Linguistics. I'm also working full time, in publishing, which makes things interesting (and slow going.) Fifth year, just finishing coursework, as well as the dissertation proposal.
Good luck with the Masters. Grad school is fun, but hard work obviously, and it can be a bit of a roller coaster. When you start thinking that you're not good enough, not as smart as everyone else, incapable of finishing or adding anything worthwhile to the field, just look around you. Everyone else is thinking the same thing about themselves! -
I finished my PhD in history a few years ago, and I've been teaching history for the better part of this decade. I can relate to both those who have loved and those who have hated their experience. Like life itself, grad school is full of ups and downs.
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By the way, I am so glad I didn't discover blogging until after I finished. Like I didn't have enough distractions to deal with as it was!
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I cannot even imagine blogging while doing graduate school. That consumed me entirely. I don't think I could have even worked a job while going. I was a grad assistant so I was funded through that--but it was all consuming for me.
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@markstoneman
Yeah, tell me about distractions...The reason I cannot finish is because I am blogging. I simply cannot keep my lit.reviews to myself...I simply must blog about them...must blog...must go blog now...
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I'm doing my PhD in Psychology, and very soon I'll be joining an undergraduate college as a part-time lecturer (Psychology)-
I am also a psychologist!
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yes i know that ... and we even have talked about how studying psychology has helped in changing our lives in a positive manner
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That's right! I haven't seen you for a while though, Saiffarooqi. Nice to see you again!
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yeah, i wasn't coming too much on BC. i have moved to a different city for my PhD and it took me a while to get settled ... and also now my life has become extremely hectic ... research, teaching undergraduate students, working on my research paper, my book, and of course my blog ... too many things to do and too little time
btw, you call me Saif. saiffarooqi is just my username ... its a combination of my first and last name (Saif Farooqi) -
It's nice to see you again Saif--we have missed you around here. Although I completely understand that you are busy--being a grad student (for me) was all consuming. I can't even imagine trying to keep up with a blog or posting to social networking sites.
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