Strickland33
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Thanks.
By the way, there is an NSF RAPID call for research on how coronavirus is impacting undergraduate STEM education. The goal is to quickly fund projects that could be conducted quickly. It’s a relatively simple process compared to the usual funding process. I’d be happy to work on a project with some of you. It would be a good way for grad students to get a year of GA funding and tuition covered. You wouldn’t have to be in a STEM field yourself to get funded.
If anybody here is interested, I can post more information.
Aw, man, I would love that, but I think if I took anything else on right now besides publishing and dissertation writing my adviser would break self-quarantine, fly to the east coast, and drag me back to Cali.
Y'all, earlier stage grad students - this sounds dope, though. Ph is a great dude and his research is awesome.
pray i get summer teaching or ya boi can't pay rent in July.
I luckily signed a contract about 10 days before they announced the suspension of on-campus activities. Our union is about to go to war anyway, let alone if the university tries to back out of those.
Honestly looking back on the last almost four years - if someone asked - I think I would actively discourage someone from getting their Humanities Ph.D. It's a really challenging and enlightening process - but the level of exploitation and lack of protection for graduate students at this point just doesn't make it worth it for the student. All signs right now (post-COVID-digitization) point to the admin here continuing to leave us behind when it comes to summer research grants and teaching. There's talk of further tightening budgets and rhetoric about how "difficult" it is to extend lines of funding for students. I've heard similar complaints from other grads elsewhere.
There are a lot of days where I feel like I made a mistake. It's sad because this feels like the right career for me, but jesus the admin is either clueless or evil when they talk about the realities of "tuition waivers" and "academic-training" (pedagogical labor) for graduate students. It's awful.
Preach. Always here to chat over PMs if you wanna mini-rant. Grad school is hellish.