um...*something* check-in

[forthwritten]

How's everyone doing? I am still seeing life from the other side of the desk so the PhD's a bit on the backburner. It's interesting to see how department administration works - what administrators can and can't do, contacts within the university, that sort of thing - plus catching up on department gossip, intrigues, power struggles and drama. If I were a more manipulative and cynical person I'd say that befriending administrative staff is a good move, but I'm not that manipulative!

So what's going on with your PhD/life/etc?

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[katealaurel]

Whenever I meet real scholars, I expect these incredibly smart and accomplished people to be all suave and confident, and so when they turn out to be even more awkward than I am, it compounds horribly. Awkward academics just all over the place. Makes me wish I could do everything on the internet.

( Also, hi! I'm not yet in a graduate program-- applying this fall-- but am already doing professional work in my field [classics/ancient history], and so am hoping you won't, you know, kick me out of here. Thank you for making the comm.)