yea, about that meme...
Around this time there’s a lot of advice going around to people starting grad school, and this post has become popular: Obviously, some of you may scream...
Sclusie
In my efforts to bring you piping hot content, here’s a recording of a convo I had with a friend/colleague about the study of podcasts. There is a little out...
I need so much more information
I know some of you have stayed away from news, social media, or anything out of survival. I think that’s a good idea, and a true way to practice self-care....
NEW RULE
I don’t do things after 6pm further than a mile from my home. I know this cuts me off from lots of social activities, and it may makes me sedentary. I’m...
Every grad cohort facebook group post ever
We have a Facebook group for our grad program for people to ask…whatever. I can’t say, because it’s not really defined. So there’s a lot of opportunity for...
'Love Island' is the dystopian science fiction we deserve
This week, millions tuned in to watch twelve people talk over each other and mostly talk nonsense. No, I’m not talking about the democratic debates....
I'm surprised this hasn't happened to me
Everyone is talking about Bruce Hay, the Harvard Law professor who got scammed by two women. They befriended him, manipulated him and scammed him out of not...
hey jealousy
Jealousy is prevalent in graduate school. That’s not a surprise. We’re all trying to get ahead in a field that is increasingly competitive. Will it shock you...
Add this to the pile
The New York Times published something that is SO MY JAM: The 50 best memoirs of the twentieth century. I know that these subjective lists are…subjective....
Weekend reading
In “academia is a trashfire,” Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think Overrated: PhDs “Who Do You Think You Are?”: When Marginality...
A spectacular failure
I think I have found one of the worst movies of the decade. People define bad movies in different ways, but for me, a truly bad movie is one that sets out...
The outrage generator
You know my feelings about social media: it can mean everything and also tell us nothing. Here’s an interesting find from a twitter thread. Context: the...
MLMs are nightmares
Alert! There’s a HuffPo (that still exists) article on MLMs! (Multi level marketing). I know that these companies pray on the capitalist oppression that...
the unseen terror of a content management farm
I can’t stop thinking about this article about the content management “farms” contracted by Facebook. It’s another example of how technology that is supposed...
When you have nothing to say, just stare
The Hills is back on tonight, and usually I hate a sequel, but I have never needed this more in my life than right now. Do you have tiny, inconsequential...
I have a shopping problem and I am ashamed.
I have a shopping/buying compulsion. I don’t want to say addiction because that has some other implications I don’t want to claim. I’m embarrassed by it. I...
Stuff no one asked for.
A prank show hosted by the most precocious kid from Stranger Things which tricked people into thinking they have a job. A film about the origin story of...
Is anyone still obsessed with the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Crash?
The Malaysian airplane went missing five years ago and in this fast news cycle, there hasn’t been much about it, and apparently, in this amazing article in...
The song of the summer is a fake pop star's jam
I can’t get the fake song from fake pop star Ashley O “I’m on a Roll” out of my head. It’s from the apparently least-liked episode of the latest season of...
Is there such thing as a"must watch"?
I finished the series When They See Us in Two Days. It was beautiful and difficult and profound. I’ve heard some people say that it was too difficult to...