i think the truly terrible part of academia is that so much of it is networking. like it doesn’t matter if you’re intelligent, it matters if someone else will write on a piece of paper that they think you’re intelligent, which usually is just a measure of how much you agree with them.

vent academia grad school

Anonymous asked:

I really recommend not applying to any phds

elistudies Answer:

too late. i am crushed by the weight of my ambitions.

alittlelevity:

my dream for tumblr is that we all relearn the phrase “it’s not for me” and we remember that this is different from “it should not exist.”

something something likes charge reblogs cast

(via antsyserpentine)

froggods:

rereading my rvb fic like wooooww… i used to be able to write..

went down the same rabbithole the other day i've gained a whole spouse since the last time i posted rvb fic and had no idea how to explain to him that yes i was upset bc the love story i wrote abt two dysfunctional dudes in the halo universe based on a youtube webseries with a talking bomb and an alien baby is actually so much better written than anything i've produced in the past three years :( how am i supposed to recover from knowing my tuckington fics will always be better than anything else i write

had a dream last night i was dating wash but he was just in the exosuit the whole time and there was no affection. we were just doing tasks and hanging out and calling it dating. qpp wash dream.

red vs blue rvb agent washington

nyantara:

digitaldiscipline:

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month.

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https://www.jstor.org/action/showLogin

Better News! all of JSTOR is on SciDB by annas-archive.org for free. We don’t have to celebrate receiving scraps from an organisation that supported the prosecution of Aaron Swartz for violating their copyright. A prosecution which drove him to suicide.

(via oops-ibrokereality)

JSTOR MY BELOVED one day i'm getting a jstor tattoo it'll happen!


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