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Housing people, I'm looking for a movie or TV scenes that shows the mortgage and credit score process. E.g someone wants to buy a house and gets rejected because of a low credit score. Anyone?
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Swiss table service is so terrifying. Like, I get nervous every time I need to order something because the waitron may/may not bite my head off. I just got lambasted for ordering “too quickly?” and now I’m expected to tip the guy? Imagine what he’ll do if I don’t
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People of #AcademicTwiiter how did you find PhD funding? Any tips, tricks, secrets I should know about? I have my first year funded but after that I'm on my own and frankly, I'm starting to stress. Send success stories (or money)! #PhdVoice @PhDVoice
My 3yo looked down at our crumb covered floor this morning & yelled "Papa, come sweep the floors". I was right next to him but apparently sweeping is a job for dads. When I asked what my job is he said “you work" Looks like mission #SmashThePatriachy is well underway @momademia
I was moved by a panel on Beyond Extensions with @ULIP_French @InhabitationLab and @XazaarAdjame so I wrote some poems adapted from the words of the speakers. This first one is adapted from Solomon Benjamin. A thread...
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Poured 150ml of milk down the drain this morning🥹This is what travel-mom-life looks like! Glad I’m no longer at the point where I need to cool & store the stuff though. Respect to all traveling moms waking & pumping before the day starts. You’re magic #AcademicMoms @Momademia
Left my babies for the first time and am on my way to Paris for a seminar series on Urban Life at the Extensions. Looking forward to the event (SO @ULIP_French) and to sleeping in a hotel room all alone for three straight nights without interruption (SO @Momademia).
Survived my first proposal rejection as a PhD student and it didn’t hurt nearly as bad as I thought it would. I think I owe it all to you #AcademicTwitter. You guys have prepared me well with all your gloomy pessimism. Thanks fam 🤗
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2 vomiting babies. 2 proposals due in the next 2 days. If there's a god out there, now is your time to shine. Shout out to all the @Momademia moms out there, making it happen despite the WHOLE ENTIRE UNIVERSE working against you.
Academics, why do you use WhatsApp for work coms? Maybe coz I come from an industry where getting DM'd out of office hours about work WOULD NOT HAPPEN but It’s freaking me out. I want to be able to check my phone in the evenings but now I'm scared! #academicTwitter #phdvoice
Trying to have a work call while walking in the rain on a main road with a half sleeping half crying baby pushing a double buggy with one hand. Oh and jacket won’t zip. Thank god said call is with @theMegnetic
Why does Twitter suggest the saddest Tweets on earth to me? I mean, Sally’s got an incurable disease and John can’t change his bed sheets because his wife took her final breath in them and now I’m a howling mess in my office. Thanks
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Me trying to fit my entire PhD project into a 6 page proposal #phdlife
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"... It is not the pipes and roads of city infrastructure that need to be resilient. Rather, it is the rights and entitlements of urban citizens." @GinaZiervogel, you get me <3
Twitter loves to hate Academia but surely not all of you loath your jobs. Let’s show her some love. What do you like most about being an academic? (Even if it’s that grad school is only four years and then you’re out) #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #PhdVoice #PhdChatter
Last night I dreamt that my supervisor (@jon_schubert) bought Zoom and @semharhail threw him an acquisition party without inviting me. Aren't you only supposed to lose your mind near the end of your PhD? 😂 #phdchat #phdvoice
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The hiring process in my industry job was literally a process of thumbs up if you liked the candidate, thumbs down if you didn’t and thumbs in the middle if you’re indifferent. Count the thumbs and there’s your answer. The academic process seems fair in comparison #AltacChats
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I’m sensing some major animosity between faculty and admin staff. What gives? I don't get it. #academicchatter #academictwitter #phdvoice
