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toujours_nigel) wrote2019-02-18 03:17 pm
toujours_nigel) wrote2019-02-18 03:17 pm
what little snakes can
Sometimes I do things that I bracket in my head as Slytherin, things that I could do without and kinda don't wanna but will help in the long-run.
My actual Ph.D is not one of these things, since it's the basic requirement to teach at even the undergrad level, and I'm too dysfunctional to get one while actively teaching. But I signed up as a freelance invigilator, which gives me a bit of money when I have the time/energy, and that's a Slytherin thing for me. I appeared in and passed a country-wide qualifying exam and that's another.
About four anna half years ago, I had a nervous collapse and failed to submit a finished M.Phil thesis. While I am no longer in that discipline, I plan to reformat it and send it around as an article when I can, and that'll be a Slytherin thing.
Finally, I am now writing a week of exams to get through a second Masters degree, and if I pass that'll be my longest-running Slytherin thing yet. I'd say fingers crossed, but also i looked up how to register for supplementary exams if I flunk. Because the thing is, Slytherin things aren't always sensible, and coinciding this with my last semester in Ph.D (when I have to write my thesis or die trying) means I barely studied for these exams. But anyway.
My actual Ph.D is not one of these things, since it's the basic requirement to teach at even the undergrad level, and I'm too dysfunctional to get one while actively teaching. But I signed up as a freelance invigilator, which gives me a bit of money when I have the time/energy, and that's a Slytherin thing for me. I appeared in and passed a country-wide qualifying exam and that's another.
About four anna half years ago, I had a nervous collapse and failed to submit a finished M.Phil thesis. While I am no longer in that discipline, I plan to reformat it and send it around as an article when I can, and that'll be a Slytherin thing.
Finally, I am now writing a week of exams to get through a second Masters degree, and if I pass that'll be my longest-running Slytherin thing yet. I'd say fingers crossed, but also i looked up how to register for supplementary exams if I flunk. Because the thing is, Slytherin things aren't always sensible, and coinciding this with my last semester in Ph.D (when I have to write my thesis or die trying) means I barely studied for these exams. But anyway.
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There is no try; there is no die. There is only do.
(Coming, mind you, from someone who never completed the thesis for her second Ph.D.)
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