PRODUCTIVE WEEK IN THE LIFE OF A PHD STUDENT: dissertating, teaching & working in the writing center

Sarah, you're on a roll! Congrats on being 2nd place! And congrats to Megan on those chapter submissions! (Can Megan share a bit about her research? I remember you mentioning it a bit before and it sounded very interesting)

Congrats on the teaching award and congrats Meghan on submitting two chapters!!

Congrats, Sarah! Really happy for you and for your recent accomplishments <3

I love your videos; they are so helpful! I appreciate you discussing your grocery hauls as well. Fitting groceries into a grad school stipend is not always easy!

so good to see all your hard work paying off! we never got an update on the shoes? can’t believe Megan never had chic-fil-a breakfast 😩

I watched this video in between student conferences… your continent is so comforting and inspiring… huge congratulations on the award and Megan's chapter submissions! I would love to hear more about her research!

EEEEE YAY!!!! Congratulations!!!!! 12:45 gap in literature is a fun but stressful thing. I wanted to share the thought of writing down the scholars and then list their take aways, going as broad and big as possible and seeing what it looks like. Im certain that you already know the primary characteristics of the articles you are reading but it can be a good activity to do to make your brain zoom out and go back to the basics Congratulations again, you deserve it!:)

girl you are amazing!!!! so happy for you.

also CONGRATS on runner-up!! incredible!!!

would love to hear about the chapters of your dissertation! as in what each one is about/how it progresses!!

Congrats on the runner up and Megan’s chapter submissions! Also, you do you, and bring that switch! Since you finished HP, you should get the switch game Hogwarts Legacy. It’s everything.

What do you mean by (this is paraphrasing) "self embodiment makes one more aware of others" [around 12 ish mins into video]? To me, this is not obviously true. Let us consider the example of anxiety. I choose anxiety in particular because such a mindset forces self-centered focus, particularly when it is unmediated (either by medications or therapeutic techniques). Ok, so: suppose that I visit a gym and I suffer from 'gym anxiety,' i.e., I get anxiety when I am at the gym using equipment around others. Then, while I am using weights at the gym and others are present, I am hyperaware of my own body (my movements, my physical body's form, my breathing, my exercise form, etc). I am, on the other hand, only tangentially aware of others: I may steal glances at what others are doing occasionally, but by and large my focus is self-centered due to my state of mind. In this case, my intense self embodiment (which is heightened due to my anxious state of mind) actually makes me less aware of others. And, even if I do look at someone else weight lifting, my mind is not really processing the "other" due to the anxiety. (Now that I am writing this out, it reminds me of Sartre's anxiety due to "the other." You may or may not want to look into that.) Anyways, what do you make of this example?

Congratulations!🙌🙌