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In which mouse permits herself to indulge her delusions of grandeur6 comments

Moria wrote 1 year ago: The light blogging, reader, can be laid at the feet of any of several causes — frenetic/ecstat … more →

Tags: Ambition, grad school, growin up, Romantisme

Bureaucracy, assessment, and Academe's inhumanity8 comments

Moria wrote 1 year ago: If it were up to me, reader, there would be no such thing as grades. I see where honors like “ … more →

Tags: Academe, bureaucratie, emmerdement, grad school, Work

State of the Mouse, 20086 comments

Moria wrote 1 year ago: Fall term papers: complete; submitted. Minimally sufficient in one case; totally disastrous in the o … more →

Tags: Academe, Ambition, Work

Breathe.3 comments

Moria wrote 2 years ago: This is me vigorously pretending that I don’t have a million things to do today, that I am not … more →

Tags: affective disturbances, navel gazing, Ennui, grad school

Serendipity.3 comments

Moria wrote 2 years ago: Most academic conversations about teaching are entirely centered on pedagogy this, classroom managem … more →

Tags: Enseignement

Far afield.5 comments

Moria wrote 2 years ago: The thing about doing a degree in early modern studies, reader, is that your life swiftly goes all e … more →

Tags: Academe, benefits of disorientation, things that are old, dis-cip-lin-a-ri-ty

Milestone.5 comments

Moria wrote 2 years ago: This morning, reader, I passed a crucial threshold of this academic year. I had my first official, l … more →

Tags: affective disturbances, grad school

In which mouse is embarrassed to find that her sense of entitlement is hanging out9 comments

Moria wrote 2 years ago: So, reader. I said that I have no doubts or reservations of any kind about my new university. This i … more →

Tags: Libraries, lower case p politics, naïveté, Academe, lowercase p politics, petri-dish

In which mouse makes up for undue snark in previous post2 comments

Moria wrote 2 years ago: Before I left for City by the Sea, I was terribly anxious. I didn’t really want to admit it, o … more →

Tags: City by the Sea, expatriacy, this scepter'd isle, fol amour

Conferences, collaboration, and academic narcissism (v. 1)11 comments

Moria wrote 2 years ago: I now know why people often find it so instructive (among other less superlative qualities) to atten … more →

Tags: Academe, Ambition, dis-cip-lin-a-ri-ty, naïveté, snark, grad school

Expatriacy (re-)ahoy!6 comments

Moria wrote 2 years ago: This evening, reader, your mouse boards a plane bound for London, whence she will hie her sleepy, ba … more →

Tags: this scepter'd isle, Travel, expatriacy

Validated!4 comments

Moria wrote 2 years ago: Posts have been slowing down around here mainly because I’ve been a) gainfully employed and b) … more →

Tags: Academe

Speaking of psychoneurotic symptoms...1 comment

Moria wrote 2 years ago: It’s open season on Ph.D. applications, ladies and gents. Contributing to my ongoing academic … more →

Tags: applications, emmerdement, navel gazing

An elaborate whinge

Moria wrote 2 years ago: Graduate program(me) applications are a one-way ticket to annihilating irrationality. Reader, it … more →

Tags: affective disturbances, applications, emmerdement

Anxious fretting on a scale to merit a blog post1 comment

Moria wrote 2 years ago: I just sent a large packet containing a small portion of my soul to Brit Uni. Ego? What ego? It … more →

Tags: applications, affective disturbances


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