stereopticons

This is where I am, too. Today is a "why am I doing this I'm not good enough" day. And I'm switching fields too, so I'm imagining committees looking at my app and being like, why is this person even applying she's never taken any epi classes!" Interview did not go as well as I thought. No in person invite. I can pinpoint at least three things I could've done better but ugh. I'm not prepared for yet another round of rejection. Also @DBear let me know if you're headed to Philly!! I applied to Penn too and I actually used to work at Temple. It's a pretty fun city!

Ghost writer

Marriage proposal

I moved here from Philly, so I know what it's like. I don't know how to function without sarcasm and I haven't died yet! The culture shock of moving from Philly was...significant.

Research project

Yep. "Why don't you do counseling?" Because I don't want to? Both of my parents are in fields that don't require a graduate degree at all, so they really don't get it. I'm in central Texas, near Austin.

Seriously. My parents can't understand why I "want to go back to being a poor student again". No understanding that I can't do what I want to do without a PhD.

Field work

Yeah, it was Monday. Out of nowhere, I started worrying that my answer to what research I would do in her lab wasn't satisfactory.

You're not a loser! Nothing wrong with good karma. Probably more productive than obsessing over one tiny thing I said in a phone interview two days ago.

Deer hunter

Killing fields wow, things got dark around here...

Peaceful protest :/

@PhDorBUST bam bam bam bam I wanna be sedated @GeorgeC07 yeah, it just seems like there's so much variation by school. I figure I'm just going to be extremely anxious for the next several months.

Porch swing

Short story

Metro stop

I was expecting this week to be somewhat quiet on the results front given that it's winter break in most places, but so much has been posted the last two days! Nowhere I've applied to, of course, but still many posts.

Miami vice

Suicide hotline

Geek squad

@dpowe003 I'm with you wanting to leave Texas ? I've been here 2.5 years and I'm sooo ready to go, well, anywhere else. Preferably East Coast. Best of luck to you!!

I'm glad it wasn't just me! Guess I should hit some after-Christmas sales, too.

Computer system

Nervous wreck