Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe @MAranzazuRU Twitter profile

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Sure, your uni is nice and all, but this is the *lunch area* of @EAFIT 🤩

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

PhD work based on fieldwork in Colombia. Pandemia. Reorient work to do fieldwork in USA. Kicked out of the country. Well, let me tell you, like this it is impossible to get a PhD.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

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Academics with ipads, I have been hearing they are very useful for work, I just got one and wanted to hear your tips on what apps to use (specially to not have to ever print papers and be able to take notes as if it was paper + a substitute for a “lab notebook”). Thanks!!

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3 years

Spanish porno 🤩

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1 year

Goal 2023: finish the PhD

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

If tinder (etc) work for dates, they should work for friendships too. I want a tinder for friends. As an adult with a very mobile life, making friends becomes increasingly hard. I’ve heard this concern of SO many. Tech-minds, give us this App please!

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Partner told me it was me. He is not wrong.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Many of us 4th year PhD seem to be suffering from fear that our research design do not work, our ambitious plans fails, our theories yield no interesting results & then... what? I've been told it is a common feeling. Knowing I was not alone helped me, so I hope it helps others :)

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Work as a RA for economists: we code in STATA. Me: OK, let me learn it. Starts PhD in polisci: we code in R. Me: ouch, OK, I only know STATA but let me learn R. 3 years into PhD starts coauthoring with economists: Remember we code in STATA. Me: 😱😱😭😭

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@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Princeton today was showing off.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

I swear I will never solo author any other paper apart from the two I need for the PhD. So boring. So much worse than if I did it with people. I genuinely don’t get the need to solo author at all.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

I’ve seen a lot of discussion of extending tenure clocks and how it is OK to expect lower productivity from junior faculty #AcademicTwitter . I’ve seen close to none of how this is impacting graduate students. 1/n

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

1 year

New home ❤️. Now I just need to learn French.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Princeton just banned all international fieldwork due to Omicron. The level of desperation of those based in the US trying to study any other context but the US is high. At least mine. Barriers are becoming close to being too high. Thankfully I am in absentia next year. But still

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Took me 8 months of NDA to get access to data. 2 months to get IRB. 3 months to clean and get the basic structure of the panel right. Now need to geolocate. After all of this, I might very well have null results. #Panic #phdlife #phdproblems

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Passed my prospectus defense 🥂🥂🥂🥂. My dissertation on gang recruitment is becoming a reality. Cant be more excited 🥳🥳🥳🥳.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

Twitter friends, I PASSSED MY QUALIFIERS!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

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3 years

I now have funding to be in field for the solo chapters of my dissertation!! I won these grants with my own projects 🥳🤯🥳🤯🥳🤯🥳🤯🥳🤯🥳🤯

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Another R&R!! … from the IRB :(

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

Is 50% of the PhD learning how to get yourself out of “I have no clue how to do this” and “I am pretty sure I won’t be able” holes and just get yourself to do *something*?

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

A new nerd level has been unlocked when you consider this fun and not work.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

5 years

I started my PhD with 29, I am pretty sure in 5 or 6 years I will still have plenty of life to look forward. As far as I know average life expectancy is far from 35 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Fay Lin, PhD

@xiaofei_lin

5 years

I heard a graduate student making condescending remarks about fellow students who were pursuing a PhD in their late 20s or older. Remarks included: "Can you imagine being old when you get out and not having a life to look forward to?" I found it disgusting. @AcademicChatter

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

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3 years

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG I AM APPROVED TO GO BACK TO FIELDWORK!!MEDELLIN SEE YOU SOON ♥️!!

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

8 months

I have now defended my PhD 🍾 and started my new job at @JPAL_Europe 🤩. Could not be happier. If you are interested in Social Inclusion in Southern and Eastern Europe, special focus on education and youth, keep tuned for more!

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

I miss Europe. With every cell of my body. I am not even asking for Spain anymore. I just want to be able to go to Europe. I want to go home for a while. This is imposible rn because I won’t be accepted back for too many reasons. It pains me.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

River in the city of Zurich. Look at the color of this water 💦.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

1 year

Doing a PhD is exhausting, mentally and emotionally, but somehow, also physically.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

@KhoaVuUmn Not even a joke 😂. When I started the PhD in the US I was perplexed at people doubting on twitter whether it was OK to take weekends & posting that they had not taken vacations in years. My US friends informed this was common beyond academia. My European heart nearly stopped.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

1 year

At 33, I finally drilled a wall to put a shelf. This might sound as trivial for many, but chronic nomads will get it. The immense “having roots” feeling that comes with being in a place where you see yourself enough to invest in drilling a wall.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

1 year

The next semester I will be a visiting PhD at @PSEinfo in the development econ group. I am *extremely* happy and excited for the upcoming months. If you are around Paris and would like to connect, please let me know, I would love to!

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

I am helping undergrads with their thesis/term papers. When they come for data visualization questions I always tell them “get pen & paper and draw the graph you want. R will not know how to give you what you want if you don’t know what you want”. I forget this myself too often.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

5 years

Looking for help 😱! I am in a PhD in Politics and struggling with decision and game theory (and more broadly proofs). Looking for books on “how to prove” (logical reasoning) and game theory with practical guide (& tons of examples) on how to solve medium-level games. THANK U ☺️!

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Not a bad life here at @EAFIT ♥️

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

I don’t think in person classes in fall is an option given this trajectory. Mixing undergrads of all parts of the country in dorms where physical distance is impossible is not feasible given U.S. lack of response. And let’s be clear, this situation wasn’t caused by the virus.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

If I do succeed in my PhD I think it will be to a large degree to how often and shamelessly I ask for guidance and how often people very generously share their knowledge with me. This expands well beyond mentors/advisors.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

I am feeling so behind in the PhD it’s taking quite some effort not to let stress/anxiety take control.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

6 months

After a long year which involved moving to Paris, doing a visiting at @PSEinfo , going to @Princeton to defend my PhD, and getting a job at @JPAL , finally vacations in Madrid. To a less intense 2024.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Well I saw @jmwooldridge in person in @PrincetonEcon and I am now a happy PhD 😁.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

This graph made me cry for Spain and then very proud of the extreme social distancing the population has endured to get that line down.

Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

4 years

It's sometimes hard to get a sense of the intensity of Covid-19 infections across countries without adjusting for population size. Below are evolutions of confirmed Covid-19 death per million. You can find other countries here:

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

It is normal to struggle (in general) and with material during the PhD. I struggled BIG time with formal. I had to take *6* courses on it to get it. While I was taking micro I, I went to my profs and told them I was failing. They told me to read undergrad textbooks. 1/n

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

As a PhD, transitioning from being a student to doing research in the middle of a pandemic where you lack the companionship and support of your cohort and the access to mentors is harder than ever, is not at all easy. Any tips?

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

Imagine a CP or econ development seminar without international students. Now imagine it without international profs. We do not “enrich” universities. We *are*, as much as any other American, the university. We are not a shinny topping, we are the flour of the cake.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

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4 years

@JRhodesPianist Obvio microbio

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

1 year

The amount of time international grad students spend figuring out social security, taxes, visas, etc. My god. 5 years into the PhD and I am still completely lost as to how it all works. Every time I ask there is a new and different answer.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Today is the first day of spring weather, I recovered from covid, and I presented my dissertation prospectus to my department. Life feels lighter this afternoon 💙.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

I tested positive for covid yesterday. In the last 2 weeks I’ve seen 3 friends who tested negative throughout that period and that continue to test negative. Other than those work interactions, zero. This virus is very sneaky. Keep safe and take it seriously.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Fieldwork starts today. Definition of excitement 🎉. But first, breakfast looking over lovely Medellin🤤

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

As a grad student, I can’t wait for the break to be back home and watch Lord of the Rings with my family while we eat tortilla de patatas. Extended version marathon.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

I came to Spain for a surprise visit to family and friends now that my parents are vaccinated. I can’t start to express my happiness. These days are worth gold.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

I learned more about how political science works in this #APSA conference than in the past 3 years of PhD. Didn't grasp the extent to which being online was hurting my PhD beyond fieldwork. Very glad I came. I leave with a whole new understanding of how this all works.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

I am officially out of twitter until I regain control over my fears. With qualifying exams tomorrow and possible orals in two weeks, the whole visa situation was just the icing on the cake that made it all too much to handle.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Hi all! I'll be spending some time of this 2022 in Zurich and I would love to meet the polisci and econ community over there. I am working in crime, conflict and behavioral econ, if having a coffee with this stranger seems fun, please reach out! It will make my day :)

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

My mum told me this Xmas: “Arantxa what is so important about this paper of yours?? “The paper this”, “the paper that”, so much stress for being behind, who cares about this pdf???”

Ramon Misla David

@RMisla

2 years

My family trying to / Me freaking out be understanding / about my PhD

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

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2 years

I am already planning trips to Colombia 🥳🥳🎉🎉🥳🥳🎉🎉🥳🥳🎉🎉🥳🥳🎉🎉🥳🥳🎉🎉🥳🥳. 2022 looking way better than 2021.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

I just like you a lot @Princeton . And I am very grateful to be able to experience you 💙

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

This might me a too ambitious objective to solve in a single planning session. 😂

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Being in Spain outside the academic bubble makes me realize how much we overstress, overworry, and overthink academia. In the end, it’s a job, a cool and fulfilling one, but a job. There are bigger things. Work hard, try your best, but don’t let it take 90% of your space.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Workflow to apply a method: 1. Open methods paper. 2. Be confused. 3. Remember that probably @causalinf has digested the method for us, open the causal inference mixtape and 4. Be notoriously less confused. 5. Tweet about it. 6. Repeat.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Back to the cafe from where I sent 90% of grad school applications. Now back as a PI for the project that back then was just a dream. Seems surreal. If applying from Medellín I believe gives good luck. 🍀

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

I study gangs and I want to read outside PoliSci & Econ. I have on my list work by Dowdney, Decker, Twonsend, Van Winkle, Jankowski, Venkatesh, and Fontes. What should I add to this list? Want to learn from all disciplines but I am out of my comfort zone here 🙂 THANKS!!

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

1 year

I am so overwhelmed with the last year of PhD, so I am going to add learning a new language. And then they say humans are rational.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Best Princeton shot 😎 🇲🇽 🇨🇴 ♥️

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

I worked for @IPA_LAC for 4 years. I didn’t get the job because I wanted the PhD. All the opposite actually. But working with academics made me realize I would like the job. Others realized the job was not for them. I think this is the real benefit of being a RA. 1/n

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

1 year

My absolutely perfect new work station 🤩. With photos of Medellín (❤️) from

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

I don’t think we tell students enough that is normal to be bad at things before we get good. That getting good takes practice, which requieres time & is not easily substitute by just brute forcing knowledge into your brain. Being bad at things is how progress looks, not failure.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Grad school pre causal inference mixtape was a worse place. Thank you for making this exist @causalinf . I think I will never be able to express my gratitude for the existence of this book.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

If my advisors knew how much time I spend finding "the right shade of blue" for each map I produce they will *not* be happy.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Finally. Long time no see Colombia hermosa. No puedo esperar a achucharos a todos!!

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Having an abortion because you don’t want to have a child is perfectly valid. No other reason is needed and you don’t need to defend your choice. And not having that option on the table makes a country inhospitable to women.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Love Europe 💕

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Found a new working prime location. Feeling lucky 🤩

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

To all incoming PhDs. It will feel like you *cant* take a break. Too much to hand in. And I don’t know how to do any. I would suggest to *commit* yourself to take (min) one day off a week regularly. I promise your results will not suffer. This is a marathon, not a sprint 🙂.

Not so Exhausted Anymore, Ph.D.

@PhdExhausted

4 years

To actually enjoy your PhD and come out a healthy and happy person once it ends, spend some time in a day/week where you don't think about your PhD at all 😇💃🏃‍♀️🏋️🏊🍻🧘‍♀️📚 @AcademicChatter

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Its application session. If anyone is thinking about applying to polisci phds in the US & want to have a chat, I am happy to meet you! Welcome all, specially encourage people outside the US (US system is hard to navigate as an outsider!)

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

This university is truly Harry Pottery. 💛🧡

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

I had the courage to apply to a PhD in top schools because @cblatts and @SantiagoTobon believed in me. I was 😳 when they told me they believed I will get in. I applied to work with @poverty_action only because @GarciaHdezAna encouraged me to & believed I could make it. THANK YOU

PhD Balance

@PhD_Balance

4 years

I nearly didn't apply for grad school because other people had me feeling like I wasn't smart enough for it 😑😑 Did anyone else nearly not pick their degree or nearly decide not to go to grad school?? #phdchat #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

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2 years

Today, 5 Oct 2022, after starting the PhD on the 5 of August 2018, Arantxa run her first regression. 4 years after.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

11 months

DRAFT OF THE DISSERTATION SUBMITTED.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

My JMP is based purely on qualitative insights. Years of convos with community, gov, people serving time prison & beers with friends. Ive been working 3 years on this. I didnt know if the quant data will be good enough to back up qual data, today, finally, I think it will.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Did I choose a PhD topic… Where no data is available? Yes Where getting data remotely is impossible? Yes Where I can’t directly observe the phenomenon? Yes With lots of ethical & security considerations? Yes Will I do it again? Yes Do I envy easier research environments? OMG YES

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

1 year

I think getting a PhD to then decide to go to a rural village in the middle of Spain and become self sufficient is a good investment. Hear me out: good weather, living by the sea, and a simple life.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

If Princeton could see what I watch on Netflix and how many hours I spend watching it, they will revoke my candidacy for the PhD.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

August 2018 - June 2021. Came to Princeton hopeful, willing to make it work, and profoundly sad. 3 years later, I am happy, I made it work, and rebuilt my life. To next 3 years of Princeton 🥂 which are off to a much better start 🙂.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

4 years

Level of emotional stress: just cried when received the email from the president of @Princeton expressing the university support of international students and policy/legal actions against the new ICE regulation. I am back at square one of pandemia stress.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

1 year

During my time at IPA, I fell in love with this conference before even thinking of academia. 6? 7? years later, I am going to be presenting. This is a huge personal milestone of mine🤩.

Juan Vargas

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The Ridge-LACEA Workshop on Economics of Crime (aka AL CAPONE 2023) will take place in Montevideo on May 15 and 16. Submit you papers by Feb 10. Additional info:

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1 year

This year it was me who woke up early in the morning to open the door of the house for my parents who were struggling to open it after a nights party. My god PhD what have you done to me. Pa lo que hemos quedao.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

How much of a PhD is just doing “forensics” on your admin data to try to not mess up while cleaning it and trying to guess the DGP? I hope the answer is *a shit ton* because that’s all that I am doing lately.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

To all my fellow international grad students and chronic expats, I am sending you my love and profound admiration. From an international student and chronic expat who is feeling the well-known frustration, cognitive dissonance of being far, and expat guilt quite strongly today.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Is it COVID or am I tired and lazy? Every day doubts

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

Ive been 1.5 days in Medellín. My level of satisfaction with the PhD has already improved by 200% (and fieldwork does not start until tomorrow…). I have also reconnected with the idea that this is more than an academic endeavor which makes me much more motivated. Happy Arantxa.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

@natdyerwild @OpenAcademics I started my PhD at 29, I am now 31 and into my third year. I am really happy and will do it all again in a blink of an eye. But this is highly personal. I would say follow your guts, do what makes you happy, and the rest will resolve itself :)

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

If the PhD does not work, I go back to cooking school 🧑‍🍳!

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

3 years

I will remain forever perplexed and impressed by fellow PhD students in political science who have publications during their first years of their PhD. It took me till end of year 3 to have a somewhat coherent dissertation *proposal* put together.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

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I love speaking with PhD applicants, I see so much of me in them, the conversations are always a lot of fun and they are always a reminder of the best part of academia. I hope every single one of you get into a program you want because any program will be lucky to have you.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

I am struggling to find joy & excitement & motivation in my work these days. I always had. But it just feels so meaningless in light of these two years. My brain bounces btw work in something which helps people rn in a concrete way or go hug your parents. All else, seems… meh.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

@causalinf When I was a RA the things that I appreciate more were: - Understanding the project apart from the task - Knowing the goals of the task - Knowing what were the major alerts/not do of the task - Having an efficient com. channel to ask about unexpected decision making 1/2

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Goals of today: - Grade 160 exams (not all questions). - Test negative for COVID to be able to fly home tomorrow.

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@MAranzazuRU

4 years

Dear 1st year phd-self: not every (or any) problem set, class, paper or exam is going to define your trajectory. Take courses that excite and challenge you. Measure success in terms of relative progress. Where you started and where you are. But priority 1 is to enjoy the ride.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

For the first time in *10* years I am seeing family & lifelong friends somewhat regularly (& not missing every major event). I just want to say: international PhD students, I see you. And I see how the cost of the PhD is much much much more than the effort going into research.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

What is this beauty 💙. Zurich, Feb 2022.

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Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe

@MAranzazuRU

2 years

Called my mum, 7pm in Spain: “Can’t talk rn I am here with my friends having a coffee in the sun”. I can’t wait to be a retired woman in Spain.

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