what the fuck am i getting myself into with this grad school stuff

woo got a quarter scholarship, bumping the price down from extortionate to merely grotesque :D

"basically it's now about as much as a cheap hatchback, so instead of buying me a car, you're getting me *employability*"

ah, i love how these things work

but yeah, uh, what the fuck am i getting myself into XD

what are you doing? starting this year?

starting in 2 weeks, doing (you're not gonna believe this) science journalism

it being a new course designed to get people writing about science in a way that is both engaging and relevant to the actual science, unlike the majority of science journalism

basically i may LOOK like one of the people you hate, but i'm ACTUALLY some sort of saviour ;)

Waffling about saving the world instead of actually saving it. (Actually it sounds cool and worthwhile; technical writers never go hungry even especially if they don't do journalism).

I am at the end of week three of my semester and just about managing to juggle school work and employment, I am now in a quandry as to whether I should continue working with this startup post graduation or go onto Phd. Its so hard as I find both options stimulating. I am wondering if it is possible to combine, high pressure employment with amateur academia.

ah, science as art, scientists as people, all that stuff?

where? QMW and Cardiff have courses, don't they?

not so much science as art, as science as dignified and engaging journalistic consideration

at City, which tbf is usually pretty good for journalism (if not science)

I am starting another round of Jew School on Monday!

re:
starting in 2 weeks, doing (you're not gonna believe this) science journalism

― a chick I wanted to pursue on OkCupid (country matters),

Congratulations, I just knew your were going to do a Masters sooner or later, have you seen this article in the Independent about your course back in July.

The science of journalism: Reporting on matters of life and death
http://bit.ly/2i7jQR

The latest Masters from one of the UK's premier journalism schools aims to prepare students for reporting on issues that are a matter of life and death. Caitlin Davies reports

Good luck, LJ. Am just barely recovering from finishing my MA - pretty sure I won't do any better than a pass, which is making me feel somewhat empty inside; what the hell am I going to do now?

LJ, just spotted this article, although American centric worth a read re: your new course

http://bit.ly/41vfg6

PR or science journalism? It's getting harder to tell

Faced with a shrinking audience of journalists for their press releases, a consortium of universities has launched Futurity, a site that will aggregate edited versions of the best materials produced by university press offices.

Moving to Munich for last year of PhD on Tuesday. Fresher's week during Oktoberfest. Yaow.

how can u be peer reviewed when ur peerless?

out

munich! that's awesome. have fun :)

i'm 2 weeks into an ma/phd program and so far, so good. lots of work but i'm better at time management than i used to be, and am hoping to become more efficient. did any of you manage to get your work done in time to have late evenings and weekends mostly or totally free? that's my goal but i am so far falling short, advice welcome.

Ooh, cheers DJ and emily! Didn't see your posts. I had seen that Indy article but not the second one. Cheers for linking it; I'll try to make good use of it! Good luck Caek obv

Maria,

The amount of time I spent on work during late evenings and weekends depended on my coursework each semester. Out of my 4 semesters, 2 seemed to be of average difficulty (at least one weekend day would almost always be taken up by school work, but generally not working past 9pm on stuff more than 3-4 weekdays a week), 1 was relatively easy (could get most of my work done working only 1-2 late evenings per week, and maybe half of a weekend day), and 1 was living hell (work hard every day, all day, all night, all weekend. Occasionally take a day off but then pay for it brutally later).

Of course, it depends on what you're studying, and how much getting the A actually matters to you.

Also, keep in mind that I was lurking on ILX pretty much 24/7 during my entire grad school experience because I'm a huge procrastinator. If you have a decent work ethic and you're more efficient with your time, you should have an easier go at it.

LJ,

just seen this:

The Times to launch monthly science magazine
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44420&c=1

so glad my entire two-hour class this evening is being given over to repetitive, boring, useless five-minute student presentations (including my own)

it's awesome that i'm spending thousands of dollars to listen to people who don't know what they're doing for an entire class

The presentation class is really the Clips Show Episode of grad school.

it's awesome that i'm spending thousands of dollars to listen to people who don't know what they're doing for an entire class

but just think, after you graduate and get a job you'll get PAID thousands of dollars to listen to people who don't know what they're doing! :)

guys i am considering graduate school

but just think, after you graduate and don't get a job you won't get PAID thousands of dollars to listen to people who don't know what they're doing! :)

The presentation class is really the Clips Show Episode of grad school.
otm!
had one of these -- only actual 'class' during my last semester. what a waste of 3 credits worth of $$$.

I'm reading some grad school application forums right now and it's not doing good things for my self esteem

gbx in what?

eco/geo

v tentative

Man there is nothing more fascinating than these library management articles. Really.

ha i took library management last semester, as part of some misguided thought that i might one day be in a position of authority

Are you thinking of leaving med school, gbx, or would it be a dual thing?

Because 2nd year of med school so far is...not fun, but it is the price of 3rd year, I hope.

oh dual!

interested in water stuff: access, -borne illness, ecology, etc. may just leave it armchair, tho

on my program you have to take lib management but it was pretty painless

*in my

i like 2nd year! shit-gone-wrong is much more engaging than 'welcome to yr first day of work here is where the copier is' first year

...w/r/t the body, that is

not the actual copier, they showed us that in the first week

Nice!

I like the 2nd year material way more, it is just that we are in a testing block right now and people are all basically subsisting on caffeine and candy and the promise of Friday afternoon. It is kinda rough.

yeah, my shit starts next monday eeeegh

lol waht is an ekg

most librarians probably will end up in some kind of management position. That's what my management prof said and I think she's right. Nick, you will one day lord over many people

We learned EKG in one gigantic four hour lecture last year, plus the Dubin "Rapid Interpretation of EKG" book. I think we get to learn it again, which is good because all I remember is that our professor obliquely referenced Dubin getting into some legal trouble, which led me to consult with Dr. Google, to discover that Rapid Interpretation of EKG dude had a crazy cocaine sex party with underage girls. I cannot be expected to memorize the different stages of Heart Block when I am just learning about THAT.

i dunno, the cover is so BRIGHT, it's hard not to just stare at it, thinkin baout waves of depolarization

Anyone done/is doing grad school in a psychology or child development related discipline?

well, my roommate is doing psychology, but social psych specifically...any questions i should pass alone?

ah I was going to ask about careers after, but was thinking more of the developmental side of things - thanks for mentioning though.

LJ: Public lecture at Aston by Ben Goldacre on 21 Oct: When Journalists Kill

ahem, thesis hell. had to turn in my proposal today. luckily, my 'chair' is D0di3 B3llamy, the author of such underground hits as 'Cunt-Ups,' 'The Letters of Mina Harker,' and 'The Barf Manifesto.' so the fact that i'm writing about the psychotopography of sexual dynamics and late capitalism is fine, in fact encouraged.