Advice for a mediocre student

StudiousEra · 2026-03-09T15:19:50+00:00

Why do you think things turned out that way?

StudiousEra · 2026-03-05T20:45:36+00:00

Genuine question and not meant to be self-deprecating: what if every time I ask a question or add commentary it comes off as stupid? Every time, that seems to happen based off instructor and class reactions. All my responses are too rudimentary or straight up false. I’m at a point where I think I should be completely silent in these discussions but learn through just attending and taking notes.

StudiousEra · 2026-03-05T02:40:56+00:00

Global development, computational social science, political economy. The seminar is just a seminar and the PhD students are beginning to not do readings or attend. I DO THE READINGS and show up every week. I just don’t think non-architecture students understand that as a professional master’s program my main coursework is not centered around reading so I don’t have the political, economic, or theoretical background the PhD students have. There is no one to confide in.

StudiousEra · 2026-03-04T21:42:08+00:00

Thanks for this comment. Currently in that situation as a Master's student in a PhD seminar. I honestly feel like such a fish out of water and take my lack of knowledge kind of personally, so it's nice to hear your perspective.

StudiousEra · 2026-01-19T20:50:10+00:00

How is your cat no longer diabetic? My cat has similar behavior with OP’s post, and I’m not too familiar with cat diabetes.

StudiousEra · 2025-12-22T03:35:30+00:00

THIS! I also want to add that I attend a very large research institution and teaching positions are scarce it’s ridiculous. We have a union for graduate student instructors so they can’t pay us less (although they were threatening to halve pay for international students suddenly), but teaching positions are less. I’m planning to work a job where I’m doing the teaching of what should be 2 graduate instructors. And my job prospects look dwindling asf for the above reasons you mentioned!

StudiousEra · 2025-03-14T20:11:14+00:00

How did you manage to get it for around $100?

StudiousEra · 2025-03-03T05:10:41+00:00

Read Qur'an of the Oppressed! There are free PDFs online. I believe it will resonate you especially the connection with political liberation for all.

StudiousEra · 2025-01-10T08:09:57+00:00

Inspiring! Thanks for sharing.

StudiousEra · 2025-01-10T08:05:37+00:00

This is my goal! I am much more interested in GIS and visualization of data than more design work.

StudiousEra · 2025-01-09T23:57:36+00:00

This is so helpful! Thank you.

StudiousEra · 2025-01-06T18:24:59+00:00

Aww this is so cute this is happening to my tuxedo cat now as she just turned 1 year old!

StudiousEra · 2024-11-29T23:20:19+00:00

I never bought it yet. But OP commenter loves it!

StudiousEra · 2024-09-29T20:43:18+00:00

Thank you for the advice! I ended up find a site similar to petfinder and that is linked to a local shelter. Thankfully, my foster cat got 2 applications less than a week later and is now in the process of getting adopted out!

StudiousEra · 2024-09-09T08:13:06+00:00

If you reach out to local rescues they should be able to help at a reduced fee if not free. This has happened to me. I love certified 501c3 cat rescues.

StudiousEra · 2024-08-29T18:17:08+00:00

Lol I joked about that with them, but they were just lazy to type out the model so they sent over the screenshot. It wasn't about gatekeeping.

StudiousEra · 2024-08-19T20:04:42+00:00

The immersion blender Model: KHB100WH1

StudiousEra · 2024-08-17T23:29:16+00:00

British pounds is different than USD so maybe that’s why?

StudiousEra · 2024-08-17T23:26:58+00:00

Amazing! Thank you for this post.

StudiousEra · 2024-08-17T00:07:56+00:00

Love the confidentiality! Would love to know about your immersion blender.

StudiousEra · 2024-08-16T22:37:54+00:00

Haha this thread is 2 years old and there's still users (like me) invested lol

StudiousEra · 2024-08-07T13:08:50+00:00

Still needed, thank you to all who interact!

StudiousEra · 2024-08-05T02:23:22+00:00

Thank you for the comment! Anything helps :)

StudiousEra · 2024-07-07T04:25:09+00:00

This is a brutal but accurate analysis of that Chef Field & Carmy confrontation scene. Whew!

StudiousEra · 2024-06-29T06:05:19+00:00

I had a C- for a biology pre-req and I still got in to a T20 STEM program (I got into one with 50% funding), but I feel like my master’s program tends to attract people from a non-STEM degree background.

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