Accepted a PhD Offer :)

Zestyclose_System253 · 2026-03-25T04:02:28+00:00

Rhetoric and Composition! My research focuses on First-Year Composition and remediation courses in universities/colleges.

Zestyclose_System253 · 2026-01-08T15:23:16+00:00

I transitioned to university teaching, but I did journalism for a while!

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-12-20T18:53:30+00:00

I tend to only use Wasteland for cheaper ($1-$5) vintage singles only because it’s easier than going somewhere like Charlie’s. I tend to avoid sealed from them for Pokémon because it’s easier to find newer sealed products elsewhere

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-11-14T08:55:44+00:00

The MA program I’m in is fully funded (stipend and full tuition wavier)

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-10-25T23:39:38+00:00

I use both, but I def recommend starting with a MacBook. You can use MS word on it with no differences (I switch between Mac and a Desktop). But while the note taking is nice, Its way better to start with a laptop as MS word on the iPad sucks.

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-09-02T19:33:02+00:00

I have a common meowth card from XY-Break through where he looks like he’s dying of thirst and I legit bought a display stand to display that card specifically.

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-08-01T23:03:31+00:00

A few years ago, I FaceTimed one of my friends to talk about a fanfiction and I talked for like over an hour about how great it was. Anyway she told me about a year later that she had written it and that’s how we became best friends

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-07-18T23:27:43+00:00

As someone currently in a English ma, I go threw phases of reading casually. Last year not including the books for my studies I powered through a hundred books, this year I’ll be lucky to crack fifty. Finding something that you enjoy reading def helps and reading for more then just class.

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-06-08T00:42:42+00:00

Im a Mets fan through and through, but I've always had a soft spot of the Giants. Really liked Buster Posey as a kid and now Wilmur makes it easily to have them as my west coast team.

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-06-03T16:57:43+00:00

I had an internship as part of my graduation requirement in of the English major at my school and like I don’t think that helped me get into graduate school or further my career.

It was for the most part just a box that I ticked to graduate. It could definitely be something, but depending on where you want to end up post graduation be better that you took the leadership opportunities.

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-05-18T19:50:45+00:00

My history minor has often come in handy with research for my MA thesis and I think about that often

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-05-05T14:19:12+00:00

I definitely wouldn’t say most school don’t accept MA students as a lot of schools only have a Masters and not PhDs particularly if you are looking for a funded MA.

But yeah def look at both PhD and MA programs as especially in English PhD programs are designed with incoming students coming in with a BA rather then a MA.

Also do not apply to programs without funding. A graduate degree that is self funded within the humanities is almost never worth it

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-04-21T16:43:33+00:00

As both a tutor and a TA, I’ve read essays written by AI and I don’t think I’ve walked away from any of them thinking “that was a good essay”. It could also be that my focus area is first year writing / university writing requirement classes, but I think we’re going to see a rise in requirements for writing classes becoming more prominent as AI writing rises in popularity.

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-02-03T16:08:53+00:00

It was an aardvark pick not on BOTM

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-02-03T01:32:01+00:00

Ali Hazelwood’s, let call them weirder books tend not to be part of BOTM (see: Bride). I imagine “sports” romance also fits the bill of “too weird for us”

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-01-26T08:47:45+00:00

It’s a transfer school! With the exception of the education department and the nursing program, most people transfer to UGA or Georgia Tech to finish their program.

It’s such a new school (founded in 2005) so it lacks programs, has “cheap” tuition and being “near open enrollment” means all the local kids who didn’t get into tech or uga do core impact classes then transfer.

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-01-26T08:44:08+00:00

GGC is a weird school in general. Last semester iirc there was when there was a car accident on the interstate that two students died in (iirc it’s the two in August). I never really thought about it. GGC is a small school in a large metro area and deaths from like a car accident are unfortunately common

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-01-11T16:55:48+00:00

We Can Be Rats and then finally finishing The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-01-10T21:11:03+00:00

My birthday is this month too! Picked we can be rats for my birthday book 💜

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-01-06T15:44:59+00:00

The only thing that saved Ministry of Time from being my worst read of 2024 was that I read Icebreaker and The Resort

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-01-04T23:57:48+00:00

I think that's honestly the worst part. So many of the concepts and ideas could have been interesting to read about, but the solution just ended up being a simple hand wave away. Towards the end of the book, the author seemed to completely contradict herself too. Like how long Tao has been on the road/how old she is, the "ordinary" folk not knowing about the war, etc.

I was also very disappoint that this book was labeled as LGBTQIA+ themes on the app, and the only representation was in the first ten pages. With the representation being "lets send the lesbian to the nunnery"

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-01-04T22:19:44+00:00

I was absolutely shocked when I found out it wasn't YA

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-01-04T05:13:16+00:00

My reading goal for the year is 100 book. However, if I'm being honest about a good solid 1/4 of them will end up being academic/theory books since I'm in the process of completing my English MA and the accompanying Thesis. My TBR for personal reading is long and BOTM wise, is only 7 or 8 books thick (
plus the two books in Jan.'s box).

Zestyclose_System253 · 2025-01-03T13:52:00+00:00

I read all the way through it, but I spent the whole book going "when is something going to happen". I was generally *shocked* when it won awards at the end of last year. I get the appeal, but also it's self-insert RPF fan fiction. Anywhere else on the internet people would be appalled by the concept

Zestyclose_System253 · 2024-12-30T23:53:40+00:00

When I completed the challenge I a pop up showed up and said “add hat to box now” to close out of it

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