I originally started Ph.Dead as a place for theraputic bitching about graduate school, teaching, and academia in general. Because of my overwhelmingly bad experience at the University of Virginia every post became loaded down with anger and negativity, and the end result was anything but theraputic. Ranting about everything that pissed me off only made [...]
Yes, crickets chirping, tumbleweed…tumbling, I know, I know. I got all angry and fired up and ready to start posting again…then failed utterly. Really, though, I have a good excuse! I promise! Now that things are getting somewhat slightly better and I don’t have a fiery sun of pent up rage about school burning within [...]
((Written on June 26th, while phdead.net was under construction)) Contrary to the evidence presented by this blog, my first year of graduate school did NOT kill me. Ph.Dead went on hiatus for a lot of reasons. Not only did finals week creep up on me, but Mr. Dead and I (for some unknown, insane reason) [...]
Ph.Dead is back from hiatus with a new url and design! Remember to update your feeds with the proper address! http://www.phdead.net
In true grad student form, I require an excuse to actually get anything done. NaBloPoMo has given me that excuse. The idea for this blog has been beating around inside my head since before the semester even started, when I discovered the hard fact of life about grad school: everyone is a fucking pompous asshole. [...]
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