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rhubarb snackowski

3 years

literary studies monograph: intro: revolution! chapter 1: close reading of a poem chapter 2: close reading of another poem chapter 3-5: close readings of more poems and one painting conclusion: in conclusion, revolution!

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rhubarb snackowski

@snackowska

4 years

there are many reasons students decide to pursue a PhD degree. one under-explored reason is revenge

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@snackowska

4 years

seeing academics tweeting about universities pausing the tenure clock for assistant/tenure-track profs because of covid-19, and just want to add: grad schools should give automatic program extensions for grad students. our research is disrupted too

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@snackowska

5 years

expecting PhD students to graduate with publications in ridiculously competitive journals that take forever to even reply to submissions is unrealistic and places a dangerous amount of pressure on students and seriously academia can just fuck off with that expectation

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@snackowska

4 years

i dunno i feel like a phd degree should be enough to get you a stable job at a university

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@snackowska

4 years

(at the risk of alienating a bunch of history profs) it’s actually irrelevant whether or not historians approve of getting rid of statues. social movements don’t need the sanction of academics.

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@snackowska

4 years

there’s enough work to be done at universities to necessitate hiring literally every PhD graduate to a full time position. but unis minimize the amount of time that labor actually takes, render a lot of it invisible, & normalize physically impossible volumes of work.

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@snackowska

4 years

I've upset my mom by describing the academic job market

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@snackowska

4 years

it took me 7 years to get through undergrad due to financial, (mental) health, and other reasons and now it's taking me 7 years to finish my PhD and I refuse to feel ashamed of these timelines, even though so often the academic culture makes me feel like I should be

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@snackowska

4 years

so, uh, anyone else angry about academia?

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@snackowska

4 years

i can't tell my friends i miss them because then they might offer to zoom

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@snackowska

3 years

pdf is short for publications downloaded, forgotten

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@snackowska

4 years

wait. other PhD students meet with their supervisor more than once per year to discuss their dissertation?

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@snackowska

4 years

i used to want to write a good dissertation, publish articles, go to tons of conferences, etc before i graduate, but now i'm switching gears, doing the barest minimum, bc higher ed isn't going to do anything for me, & i refuse to see academic labor as a self-sacrificial "calling"

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@snackowska

3 years

grad student: i can't make this deadline because there's a pandemic professor: have you tried happiness and time management

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@snackowska

4 years

just remembered a prof saying that profs read at least 250 pages per day and am now dismayed because that takes me all day plus another day and then usually many many more days after that

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@snackowska

4 years

(high school) i have no future (3rd year undergrad) or maybe i do? (almost done PhD) yeah no i was right the first time

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@snackowska

4 years

why does a tenured prof in my department make ten times more per year than a grad student-worker in the same department? is it because grad workers need ten times less calories and ten times less housing and ten times less everything?

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@snackowska

4 years

if you're inconvenienced by a strike and you're looking for someone to blame, let me make it easy for you: it's always the fault of the employer

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@snackowska

4 years

NO. academic employers, cut out this bs the publicly listed deadline is the deadline is the deadline is the deadline

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@snackowska

5 years

hi I'm a PhD candidate & I read almost every page of every book 1.5 times because when I get halfway down the page I realize my thoughts were elsewhere & have to start the page again, so every book is 1.5 times longer than the author planned (can't believe I'm mathing in public)

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@snackowska

4 years

everyone with a job in academia is horribly overworked, doing the work of ten people. there are also a bunch of people in academia who are out of work. can't think of what the solution here would be. nope. not a clue.

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@snackowska

4 years

phd candidates, i hope every one of you is taking this Great Opportunity to grab your privilege by the horns and write FOUR dissertations

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@snackowska

4 years

2020 - grad students can't pay rent, get sick, cannot continue with research, have to drop out of their programs, etc etc [fast-forward] 2021 - tenured ecocritics living in big houses publish articles and blog posts that contain personal anecdotes about braving the pandemic

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@snackowska

4 years

i simply am not a fast enough worker to be able to prepare for a nonexistent academic career *and* a nonexistent non-ac career at the same time

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@snackowska

4 years

@subh_e_azadi nothing is scarier than revenge that uses APA

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@snackowska

5 years

waiting for CBC's holograms to rebel by becoming sentient

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@snackowska

4 years

it's cute that universities think it only takes 20 minutes to read & offer feedback on a student assignment. hilarious even.

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@snackowska

4 years

saw a thread going around about what would help PhD students write/finish their dissertations that listed a bunch of options, but none of them were "money and guidance" so i didn't answer

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@snackowska

5 years

me as TA/instructor: let's talk about how to narrow down a topic me as grad student: in this paper I will argue everything

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@snackowska

5 years

time to start working on the conference paper! *reading conference abstract, accepted five months ago* WHICH ONE OF MY ENEMIES WROTE THIS?

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@snackowska

4 years

a phd is when you homeschool yourself

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@snackowska

4 years

I used to hope I would get an academic job after finishing my PhD but now I only aspire to drinking fourteen beers and consuming a medium-sized block of cheese on a graduation day that has yet to appear on the horizon

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@snackowska

4 years

@disabledphd there are definitely some highschool teachers to whom I would like to send a photo of my PhD diploma when I get it, as a sort of middle finger

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@snackowska

4 years

grad students: we need funding extensions and program extensions! universities: we hear you grad students: oh, goo-- universities: here's an instructional video on how to make soothing ocean sounds grad student: that's really not what we mea-- universities: *seagull shriek*

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@snackowska

3 years

my methodology is regretting everything i've ever said

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@snackowska

3 years

applying for alt-ac jobs by saying i was the Project Manager of my dissertation

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@snackowska

4 years

tenured profs who talk about saving the humanities but don't stand with grad students on the picket lines can't save shit apart from their own time

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@snackowska

5 years

when I started grad school I was a hopeful young person and now I'm a gloomy snack-obsessed communist

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@snackowska

4 years

how do you tell the difference between "imposter syndrome" and actually not being cut out to be a lit scholar asking for myself

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@snackowska

4 years

if universities lower tuition costs because courses are online then they should eliminate tuition costs altogether for PhD candidates, who no longer take any courses whatsoever and yet have to pay full tuition

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@snackowska

5 years

what do you call the brand of efficiency where you would rather type out every single bibliographic entry than waste the time learning a citation manager

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@snackowska

4 years

i wish there had been a course called something like "words your profs will assume you know but that you might not know" at the beginning of my undergrad because my profs were like "subjectivities" and "theorize" and stuff and i was like "sure i know what that is 👀"

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@snackowska

4 years

grad student: the pandemic has disrupted my research university: we are committed to helping you gs: i need time and money u: we are committed to helping you please submit your progress report and tuition fees now we are committed to helping you

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@snackowska

4 years

i don’t want to ever again be told that there are just too many phds. fuck you. there aren’t too many of us. there are just exploitative academic employers who are getting away with not paying workers and not hiring enough people.

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@snackowska

4 years

this might be a zany idea but maybe a lot of graduate students would finish their programs faster if university administrations & governments didn't keep forcing grad students to spend time organizing & striking for things nobody should even have to ask for

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@snackowska

4 years

academia is great because every moment not spent working is spent thinking "i should be working" and you can't, like, even read a poem unrelated to your project or have a conversation with a loved one without half your brain screaming "YOU SHOULD BE WORKING RIGHT NOW!!!"

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@snackowska

4 years

saw a thing about how 50% of academic articles have *zero* readers except for the author and the reviewers, and, as someone who despises the idea of people reading my writing, I am now far more inclined to try to publish an article!

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@snackowska

4 years

what with academia imploding and all i am utterly unmotivated to spend months writing articles or reviews for fancy academic journals to reject

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@snackowska

4 years

when i was in undergrad i had no idea what an "adjunct" is & knew absolutely nothing about academic labor & didn't know there were things to be known about academic labor and i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of undergrads now similarly have never been introduced to any of this

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@snackowska

4 years

grad students: *fighting for the bare minimum of support during the pandemic and not getting it* department email: look how resilient we are in the face of adversity!

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@snackowska

4 years

academia was a poor choice

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@snackowska

4 years

"i have a phd degree and can't get a tt job" illustrates the problem of the academic job market much better than "i have a zillion publications, 4 ivy league degrees, a partridge in a pear tree, and still can't get a tt job"

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@snackowska

4 years

universities insisting on continuing with classes online instead of ending classes right now and giving everyone a break is just one example of a genre known as "the pandemic-absurd"

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@snackowska

4 years

who wants to be part of the new dissertation writing group I'm starting for PhD candidates who don't know what their dissertation is about it consists of sitting around pointlessly all day and feeling bad while telling people you can't hang out because you're "busy writing"

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@snackowska

4 years

is there seriously even any point in trying to finish this phd?

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@snackowska

4 years

henry lefebvre here. i see you're all participating in everyday life. there are a few things i would like to point out. (1/28742956872359874024)

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@snackowska

4 years

the impossible standards set by academia are not motivational. when i hear about people with a billion publications continually rejected from jobs i don’t think “better get a billion and one!” i think “why even try”

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@snackowska

4 years

i must say, I don't care for the idea of profs passing judgment about how much free time PhD students should or should not have

Dr. Yashashree Jadhav

@yjadhav2025

4 years

So we had an interesting poll in my dept yesterday where professors were asked how much free time should #phd students have in a day with the following options. Thoughts? #academia #phdlife #AcademicTwitter @AcademicChatter

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@snackowska

4 years

my mom was even more upset when I told her how much money tenured professors and uni administrators make - but now it was the kind of upset that LEADS TO REVOLUTION

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@snackowska

4 years

where are R1 tenured profs - those great defenders of the humanities - when a generation of humanities scholars is crushed by, or just shoved out of, the university

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@snackowska

4 years

the methodology i use in this dissertation is 220-page rant because i'm not getting a job anyway

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@snackowska

3 years

if i were a student in a world where your whole life hinges on final grades (& i was a student in such a world) i would be far less stressed by a conventional exam or essay than a "creative"/"fun" assignment whose criteria are even more of a mystery than the standard assignments'

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