Hey!
How's it going?
So, just as I start thinking that maybe a 100,000 word thesis is something that I might just be able to produce, the delightful people put in charge of us postgrads have decided to plant seeds of panic in our minds pertaining to life post PhD. They then took the time to water these seeds and heap on a ton of fertiliser.
Apparently the attainment of a job in academia requires actual superpowers and we should all give up hope now. Well thats just wonderful! But its ok, I'll be a doctor, everyone wants to employ doctors, right?
No. No they don't. Whilst my academic experience will almost definitely not be sufficient to get me a job doing what I love in academia, it will certainly be enough to earn the scorn of non-academic professionals everywhere! I am spending 3 years of my life (probably more) making myself unemployable!!
Why am I doing this? Why does anyone do this?! And why, PLEASE GOD TELL ME WHY does the university think that we all want to be sent off to a dilapidated hotel, 10 minutes walk away from the university, for a half day of lectures and group exercises (GROUP EXERCISES!!!!!!!!) all clearly aimed at conveying to us that we have made a huge mistake!
It is a tough task avoiding irony when giving an hour long talk on using time effectively, and I can say with confidence that our speaker was not at all successful in this endeavor.
Yours resentfully
L
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