GOGSoc Episode VIII: I'm a surviva!

Guyssss....

My supervisor wants me to add them on Instagram (an account about my field not cat memes and breakfast pics ) and my instagram is all architecture based so nothing personal or inappropriate, but I just feel uneasy doing it but don’t want to let them down :/

Advice?

How come you feel uneasy? I think if it's not a personal account but more about work-related stuff, it should be OK Though your supervisor sounds nice so I think if you politely said you'd rather not, they wouldn't get offended!

My LA supervisor is very boundaried and doesn't add current students onto her social media, but my internal supervisor friend requested me on Facebook and it was awkward af hah. I put her on Limited Profile for a while but felt mean. So she can now see everything that all my other friends can see. She keeps commenting on posts too

I decided to add supervisor

And omg, that sounds incredibly awkward with Facebook! I have the same with my twitter where I actively tweet about psych hospitals (and a lot of moaning about not doing work for weeks at end because of MH) and couldn't think of anything worse than my supervisor seeing and commenting!

Just make absolutely sure you don't do what a fellow PhD student did, request a deadline extension for a piece of writing due to ill health, and then post photos on FB where you are friends with your supervisor - of yourself partying and drinking. That didn't go down all too well.

Just make absolutely sure you don't do what a fellow PhD student did, request a deadline extension for a piece of writing due to ill health, and then post photos on FB where you are friends with your supervisor - of yourself partying and drinking. That didn't go down all too well.

Hi guys,

Long time lurker here

I'm starting a PhD in August (or at least becoming a research fellow - registration with the uni to follow within about six months or so) and have just been sent some pre-reading by my supervisor. Any tips on how to record your notes on what you read early on to be able to refer back to later when writing? Annotated PDFs? Zotero? Spreadsheets??

Hi guys,

Long time lurker here

I'm starting a PhD in August (or at least becoming a research fellow - registration with the uni to follow within about six months or so) and have just been sent some pre-reading by my supervisor. Any tips on how to record your notes on what you read early on to be able to refer back to later when writing? Annotated PDFs? Zotero? Spreadsheets??

Hi guys,

Long time lurker here

I'm starting a PhD in August (or at least becoming a research fellow - registration with the uni to follow within about six months or so) and have just been sent some pre-reading by my supervisor. Any tips on how to record your notes on what you read early on to be able to refer back to later when writing? Annotated PDFs? Zotero? Spreadsheets??

Hi guys,

Long time lurker here

I'm starting a PhD in August (or at least becoming a research fellow - registration with the uni to follow within about six months or so) and have just been sent some pre-reading by my supervisor. Any tips on how to record your notes on what you read early on to be able to refer back to later when writing? Annotated PDFs? Zotero? Spreadsheets??

Hi guys,

Long time lurker here

I'm starting a PhD in August (or at least becoming a research fellow - registration with the uni to follow within about six months or so) and have just been sent some pre-reading by my supervisor. Any tips on how to record your notes on what you read early on to be able to refer back to later when writing? Annotated PDFs? Zotero? Spreadsheets??

Hi guys,

Long time lurker here

I'm starting a PhD in August (or at least becoming a research fellow - registration with the uni to follow within about six months or so) and have just been sent some pre-reading by my supervisor. Any tips on how to record your notes on what you read early on to be able to refer back to later when writing? Annotated PDFs? Zotero? Spreadsheets??

Yesterday, without prior warning, my university sent out an email to all students that all graduations for this year are cancelled. Not postponed, but just cancelled. There is no virtual option, and there is no option to defer to next year's graduations. They are forcing everybody who has finished or is going to finish this year to graduate in absentia, and all they offer instead is a congratulatory letter from the principal, and possibly, at some point in the future, a smaller/local "celebration of achievement". Some BA students were in tears, and all the uni replied in rather tone-deaf, copy-pasted social media posts was that they had to comply with rules. So how did other universities manage to postpone instead of cancelling? Most of my cohort would have been happy to wait until it is safe to have large events again, but once you have graduated in absentia, you obviously can't have another graduation. I don't think I'll be able to justify to myself the expense of travelling back to my uni location for a small "celebration of achievement". Garden party at home it is, I guess ...

Hi, and congratulations on starting the PhD soon! As for making notes, I'd recommend trying a few different options early on because everybody works so differently. I went to a training event where they were all into Zotero, so I did try in my first few weeks, but for me it didn't work at all. In the end, I kept hand-written notes, but with a filing system so I could easily find them again. But then, none of the established digital note-taking systems support runes, so for me, writing them by hand or making quick sketches of inscriptions, their objects, or even certain runes was way quicker than trying to get any software tool to work ...

Yesterday, without prior warning, my university sent out an email to all students that all graduations for this year are cancelled. Not postponed, but just cancelled. There is no virtual option, and there is no option to defer to next year's graduations. They are forcing everybody who has finished or is going to finish this year to graduate in absentia, and all they offer instead is a congratulatory letter from the principal, and possibly, at some point in the future, a smaller/local "celebration of achievement". Some BA students were in tears, and all the uni replied in rather tone-deaf, copy-pasted social media posts was that they had to comply with rules. So how did other universities manage to postpone instead of cancelling? Most of my cohort would have been happy to wait until it is safe to have large events again, but once you have graduated in absentia, you obviously can't have another graduation. I don't think I'll be able to justify to myself the expense of travelling back to my uni location for a small "celebration of achievement". Garden party at home it is, I guess ...

Yesterday, without prior warning, my university sent out an email to all students that all graduations for this year are cancelled. Not postponed, but just cancelled. There is no virtual option, and there is no option to defer to next year's graduations. They are forcing everybody who has finished or is going to finish this year to graduate in absentia, and all they offer instead is a congratulatory letter from the principal, and possibly, at some point in the future, a smaller/local "celebration of achievement". Some BA students were in tears, and all the uni replied in rather tone-deaf, copy-pasted social media posts was that they had to comply with rules. So how did other universities manage to postpone instead of cancelling? Most of my cohort would have been happy to wait until it is safe to have large events again, but once you have graduated in absentia, you obviously can't have another graduation. I don't think I'll be able to justify to myself the expense of travelling back to my uni location for a small "celebration of achievement". Garden party at home it is, I guess ...

Hi, and congratulations on starting the PhD soon! As for making notes, I'd recommend trying a few different options early on because everybody works so differently. I went to a training event where they were all into Zotero, so I did try in my first few weeks, but for me it didn't work at all. In the end, I kept hand-written notes, but with a filing system so I could easily find them again. But then, none of the established digital note-taking systems support runes, so for me, writing them by hand or making quick sketches of inscriptions, their objects, or even certain runes was way quicker than trying to get any software tool to work ...

Yesterday, without prior warning, my university sent out an email to all students that all graduations for this year are cancelled. Not postponed, but just cancelled. There is no virtual option, and there is no option to defer to next year's graduations. They are forcing everybody who has finished or is going to finish this year to graduate in absentia, and all they offer instead is a congratulatory letter from the principal, and possibly, at some point in the future, a smaller/local "celebration of achievement". Some BA students were in tears, and all the uni replied in rather tone-deaf, copy-pasted social media posts was that they had to comply with rules. So how did other universities manage to postpone instead of cancelling? Most of my cohort would have been happy to wait until it is safe to have large events again, but once you have graduated in absentia, you obviously can't have another graduation. I don't think I'll be able to justify to myself the expense of travelling back to my uni location for a small "celebration of achievement". Garden party at home it is, I guess ...