@PainPartnership Haha! My family is definitely similar re supportive but also not fully understanding why I chose this
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Alexandra M. Macdonald
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Alexandra M. Macdonald
@AliMicMac
@SSHRC_CRSH 🇨🇦 Historian | Senses & Temporality in 18th c. | Art & #materialculture | Consumption & Retail | PhD @williamandmary | @AHVS_uvic grad | Hiker 🏔
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@AliMicMac First person in my family to have any kind of degree (undergrad/masters/etc.). 2 family members were nurses before degree requirements. I’ll be the first (hopefully if all goes well) to have a PhD too. It’s a weird one bcos they’re proud, but also confused why I chose all this 😂
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Out of curiosity, grad students/faculty, how many of you are the first person in your family to get a PhD (but not a uni degree, ie your parents have uni degrees but not a PhD or other grad degree)?
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As a follow up - what are things you know now you wish you knew coming into your PhD?
Alexandra M. Macdonald@AliMicMac
Out of curiosity, grad students/faculty, how many of you are the first person in your family to get a PhD (but not a uni degree, ie your parents have uni degrees but not a PhD or other grad degree)?
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Sensory, embodied knowledge is knowledge
Prof. Brian Keating@DrBrianKeating
Your PhD thesis in five words. Go!
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A week later and my glass blowing experiment is coming home!
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I’m interested in exploring working with an academic coach for postdoc applications - it would be great to have any personal recommendations, especially for people with experience of working with PGRs/ECRs and/or historians. Please feel free to DM me!
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Slowly working my way through as many early modern craft skills as I can - today, glass blowing!
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@CulturedModesty I may be an outlier, but when I really need to be inspired to think big I turn to theory or philosophy books. Sometimes history texts can feel very granular and it’s helpful to step back and think "wait, what even *is* time?" (In my case)
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Alexandra M. Macdonald รีทวีตแล้ว
What book(s) do y’all go to for inspiration/motivation? #Blktwitterstorians #twitterstorians
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Reimbursement culture assumes a ton: family money, savings, etc and can close the door to a lot of exceptionally talented/smart people from diverse backgrounds of all sorts. If we want academia to change, we need to make it economically (in addition to other things) accessible!
Adam X. McNeil, PhD (aka Metaphors & Memes)@CulturedModesty
@AliMicMac Lllllooookkkk. Reimbursement life is of the Devil. And then you are at the mercy of the postal service! Just a supreme struggle that sometimes makes you wanna scream.
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@CulturedModesty Yep!! One of my friends pointed out that we should get the fellowship money + whatever share of the investment interest our money makes if we’re paying upfront and being reimbursed!
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@AliMicMac Lllllooookkkk. Reimbursement life is of the Devil. And then you are at the mercy of the postal service! Just a supreme struggle that sometimes makes you wanna scream.
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Currently trying to balance reimbursement life + stipend life and @CulturedModesty’s words really hitting home! Would love to see a time when grad students aren’t having to fund travel upfront on credit cards etc #phdchat
Adam X. McNeil, PhD (aka Metaphors & Memes)@CulturedModesty
Look! I’ll be 31 in late July and thinking about how long I’ve lived the stipend life makes me sick. You can simultaneously be grateful for where you are while also holding incredible grief about all it took to get where you are…especially being broker than a joke alladatime.
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As it seems this is starting to get out and I think I’m allowed to share now - I’m thrilled to have been selected as the Barra Material Culture Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center at U Penn for the 2023-2024 academic year!
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@AliMicMac Congratulations!!
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