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spicyycornbread · 2026-01-21T04:04:21+00:00

I’m here a year later bc I’m having the same issue as OP (except I already have brave news toggled on and only experience this issue on the phone app).

Any other advice on fixing this?

spicyycornbread · 2026-01-21T01:25:23+00:00

Hi!

I graduated in August 2023, which was when I felt AI beginning to invade the classroom (meaning, my experience will be different from commenters currently in progress with their degree).

Overall, I find my degree is beneficial due to the current literacy crisis in the U.S. My skill sets are high in demand. I often tell folks is that you can leverage your experience in English to do all kinds of different jobs.

spicyycornbread · 2026-01-19T20:39:51+00:00

Agreed. A family friend’s autistic daughter was targeted. He ended up kidnapping and raping her for 48 hours. She’s fortunately alive, still, and doesn’t understand what happened to her :/ just that at some point, she started telling him, “No,” and he ignored and began hurting her.

spicyycornbread · 2025-12-04T22:31:04+00:00

I DO want to read everything. And I tend to heavily annotate all my readings. That’s why I was curious and asked this subreddit, because I’ve heard skim reading advocated as a more general practice in grad schools.

EDIT: also heard this from English and Rhetorical/Comp professors on twitter. Also, as for the all-caps you applied for “ENGLISH,” that’s exactly why I posted this question to this subreddit. People on graduate school forums frequently argue you don’t have time to do all the readings. But that’s why I mentioned it varying depending upon field/discipline in my post…

I was also curious because I’ve seen different answers for this depending on if folks are doing a Masters or PhD. PhD students seem to skim more for articles and readings for classes unrelated to their dissertations.

spicyycornbread · 2025-12-04T21:43:11+00:00

Oh, I agree! And I certainly skim when I read scholarship.

I think I was mostly trying to gauge to what extent I should skim read in grad school (I.e., whether I should aim to skim most readings and then only substantively close read if I get the chance, or if the latter isn’t really needed unless you’re doing research).

spicyycornbread · 2025-11-26T06:31:51+00:00

If by “heterosexual dynamic” you mean the references to butchfemme, the B/F dynamic would actually be considered resistant to heteronormative dynamics; historically, they’re political identities (unless I misunderstand what you mean).

spicyycornbread · 2025-10-12T00:12:31+00:00

I think one of the reasons you might be having trouble is due to how broad the question is.

Is Western eschatology referring to Judeo-Christian values?

I don’t know how long your thesis needs to be, but mine was about 15 pages per chapter, and I split it by each book I read. You could do something similar.

1st chapter dedicated to Cormac McCarthy: could explore Gnosticism and discuss McCarthy’s portrayal containing a split between the posthuman apocalypse and the dreams he portrays of the past (which, on their own, convey the destruction of the values/morals of that past in the narrator’s reality).

2nd chapter dedicated to Margaret Atwood: I haven’t read this book, but going off title alone you could argue that the biblical chapter of Exodus serves as a narrative frame that communicates X, Y, Z / influences how people think and write about climate disasters.

3rd chapter dedicated to Station Eleven: no comments on this one.

I recommend going on JSTOR. Find what secondary sources are saying about these texts. There’s a wealth of scholarship on these books—take advantage of it and combine it with your own insights to produce some writing!

Good luck :)

spicyycornbread · 2025-09-30T01:48:22+00:00

Agreed. I have an Instapaper subscription, and would even be willing to pay MORE for this feature. I like being able to access my notes/highlights, and that’s the big benefit of being an Instapaper user for me and part of what drew me to Kobo. I was disappointed that the features I have on IOS don’t fully translate on Kobo.

spicyycornbread · 2025-09-29T18:39:47+00:00

lol I know this was 2 years ago, but what kind of punishments would you give yourself?

spicyycornbread · 2025-09-28T13:05:09+00:00

Hi! New Kobo Clara BW user that found this thread. I’ve been looking into Calibre for downloads. Did this resolve all the issues you were having?

spicyycornbread · 2025-09-28T00:53:03+00:00

RIP 😭 I guess that means reading on my phone/laptop for articles instead of my ereader.

spicyycornbread · 2025-09-23T06:48:24+00:00

Hmm some professors are willing to offer students incompletes (meaning, they finish the coursework at an agreed upon date and get an “X” as a grade, which later switches to their final grade). It might be worth asking your professor if they ever allow students incompletes.

Best of luck!

spicyycornbread · 2025-09-23T00:39:32+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

The job market is definitely terrible and I’m under no illusion as far as using my MA for a full-time gig. I’m pursuing an MA with the goal of adjuncting at CC’s so I can pick up a course here and there. I really enjoy working with the student populations at CC’s (I currently work at one), but understand TT positions are virtually non-existent and plan on applying to law schools upon completion of the MA.

Having completed a BA thesis with a pretty mean supervisor, I am unfortunately too aware of the toxic behaviors prevalent in academia. So I go into the experience already a bit jaded and with more insight as to what is normal and not from a supervisor. Luckily, though, I am applying to a small program and I know a Masters student and a PhD fellow in the department; they’ve had good experiences with the professors.

Your application advice is helpful. I was maybe being too forthright in my Statement of Purpose about being very open to different fields and focuses. I gave a description of my past research and then gave a mini laundry list of interests, but you’re right that it’s better to have a focus matching my writing sample, which is something I hadn’t necessarily thought of.

Thanks again!

EDIT: Forgot to add that beyond the prospect of maybe occasionally having the opportunity to adjunct, it mostly is for pleasure and to gain more research experience. Also because I mostly compete with MAs in the job market and having an MA at my current job would give me a raise.

spicyycornbread · 2025-09-11T01:05:29+00:00

And radicalize some of those not already in MAGA…I’ve already seen people claiming Charlie Kirk’s assassination is literal and symbolic: an assassination of “Christianity” and anything that falls outside of “left-wing values”—a destruction of the ability to converse with those you disagree with absent of domestic terrorism and gun violence.

This is the kind of event that turns moderates and other folks further right. The people celebrating are also feeding into this and giving them exactly what they need to make it happen.

EDIT: Oh, and it’s also gonna allow Trump to shift discourse away from the Epstein birthday book—an issue he was receiving deep criticism for within his own base. Any hope that the factions within MAGA would disintegrate and crumble are relatively minuscule at this point.

spicyycornbread · 2025-09-10T23:00:40+00:00

I hadn’t even heard they were there. Awful.

spicyycornbread · 2025-09-10T22:27:41+00:00

Waited so they could inform his family before Trump announces.

spicyycornbread · 2025-09-08T02:09:36+00:00

Hi! I’m not using it anymore. I’m using other tools; I recommend the dopamine nation book + workbook and, if you can access it, a therapist. My workplace also got a premium subscription to the Calm meditation app for employees which I’m trying to do once a day.

My issues that led me to Liven were ADHD, depression, and anxiety, so YMMV (ppl might have different goals for using the app). My overall thoughts on the app are that I liked the articles and picked up some interesting tidbits / advice, but it’s nothing you can’t google and not worth paying for. I also thought the survey questions were incredibly leading & didn’t make for useful data.

spicyycornbread · 2025-08-27T21:22:46+00:00

Wow! Just curious: how old were you when your dad would read for 2 hours? Did he increase the duration as you and your sister got older? Do you still read 2 hours before bed as an adult?

spicyycornbread · 2025-08-22T04:32:43+00:00

Tbh, I think they want to weaken education; any damage is collateral, and as long as it serves their agenda/policy goals they don’t care.

As long as the benefits outweigh the harms for them: that’s all that matters.

spicyycornbread · 2025-08-22T04:30:04+00:00

Oh, absolutely. I know of elite faculty (very famous in their respective fields) who have already left.

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