May 7
Finished my GIS final in 25 minutes. Predicting a B on the final and an A- in the class. Whatever.
After the gym I’m going to go run errands and then spend a few hours revising my not-thesis. Hoping to turn it in tonight. Then I’ll be DONE done.
Tomorrow I have to finish up some work for my professor and clean my entire house. Wednesday is for haircuts, maybe a pedicure, and an informational phone interview. My brother flies in at around 3pm. The rest of the family isn’t coming until a few hours before the graduation ceremony on Thursday.
I guess I should also figure out this whole loan thing at some point, huh?
(Don’t go to grad school.)
May 1
I’m done! Except for revisions before turning in the final paper by next Wednesday. But everybody is asleep.
I’m going to _______ a really big _______, watch some Happy Endings, read some Storm of Swords, and go the fuck to sleep.
(This is a different paper than the one I was working on last night. That was for GIS and was basically a write-up/report of the grad project I did for class in which I conducted statistical and spatial analyses of the abortion funding rate in Philadelphia census tracts. The map I posted earlier was for that paper and project, and I still don’t totally get studentized residuals but whatever, it’s over. The paper I’m working on tonight is my Final Masters Paper, which is what we do instead of a thesis because there aren’t enough faculty members to support thesis advisement for the MAs. My department is soooooo great. Anyway, this paper is about using a feminist geographic framework for research on access to reproductive health care, which is basically the “paper” I presented at the AAG in February, except I definitely didn’t actually have a paper back then.
And I still haven’t written anything on that page except for “Conclusion.”)
April 30
I really showed that professor with that terrible evaluation I just gave him!
- me: but ughhhh, you know?
- catbus: Yeah
- catbus: I'm looking at cats licking their own butts
- me: how is not being in school going for you?
- me: well that answers that
Page 12! Page 12! Still have the whole “future research directions” section to go! And a conclusion, which is always the fucking worst! And then I have to wake up tomorrow and write the rest of my other paper because there’s just no way that my brain will be able to handle working on that tonight.
Look at that marvelous bullshitting. Look at my mastery of statistical methods. Look at me maybe actually pulling this whole thing off and getting that degree.
April 29
I need at least twelve pages. Hope I can squeeze three pages out of my methodological issues and future research plans.
And then I still have to write the other half of my not-thesis.
:(
April 28
Grad School: What the Fuck Were You Thinking?
Grad School: Congratulations, You Spent Your Friday and Saturday Nights Staring at a Computer Screen!
Grad School: Because You Weren’t Already Insufferable Enough
Grad School: Why Aren’t You Working On That Paper, Huh?
Grad School: And Don’t Forget About the Other Paper!
Grad School: Too Bad You Can’t Write a Paper About the Fun You’re Not Having
Grad School: Stop Seeing Who Else is Signed Onto GChat, it’s Saturday Night
My final project for one of the stupidest classes I have taken in two years of grad school consists of pictures that I took of abandoned factories in my neighborhood with my iPhone.
April 24
the day I won grad school by figuring out how to insert an animated gif into a PowerPoint slide
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