Friending Meme!

[ajnabieh]

Friending/Introduction meme! Because everyone needs more acafriends, right? Right?

Here's a suggested format:

Name/Handle/User Name/Etc:
What You Do (i.e., grad student, adjunct, librarian, etc):
Specialization (discipline, subfield, whatever level of granularity you want):
Research/Teaching Interests:
Geographic Location:
Other Stuff You Do (i.e., the stuff that keeps you from going crazy):
Anything Else You Feel Compelled To Add:

Comments

[holyschist]

Name/Handle/User Name/Etc: holyschist
What You Do (i.e., grad student, adjunct, librarian, etc): Master's candidate (very soon to be DONE)
Specialization (discipline, subfield, whatever level of granularity you want): I like to be vague because there are only a handful of programs in my field in the US, but it's a professional program that has theoretically prepared me for a non-professorial career in mostly non-university academic institutions, working with science stuff. My concentration has been paleontology.
Research/Teaching Interests: See above about vagueness. Um.
Geographic Location: Colorado
Other Stuff You Do (i.e., the stuff that keeps you from going crazy): Read lots and lots of books, especially speculative fiction and really dry scholarly history books; dress up as a 16th century woman on weekends (SCA); crafts (mostly historical); trying to teach myself Middle Mongolian; photography, particularly plants and critters; playing with my cats; cooking; watching lots of British TV.
Anything Else You Feel Compelled To Add: I actually don't write much about academia at the moment, aside from access-locked complaints about my program. I've had a fairly bad grad school experience that's really soured me on a lot of things, and at this point I just want to focus on getting a decently-paid tolerable job and digging myself out of debt. Then maybe my idealism will recover and I will focus more getting on a job that's actually relevant to my training. I dunno. I do periodically write geeky posts about medieval Mongolian history and language, but I have zero formal training in history or linguistics, so I dunno how real historians and linguists would feel about them.

[ajnabieh]

I'm really sorry your grad program didn't work out; it always makes me sad to hear that sort of thing. :(

SCIENCE TEACHING OMG. I worked at the Franklin Institute one summer in high school, and it was the best thing ever. I really hope it's going to work out for you!

[holyschist]

Eh, well. Hopefully it will improve my employability--the program does have a good employment record--and my advisor and work experience have been great. It was awfully expensive work experience, though, especially since most of my classes were useless.

I am definitely not going into teaching, aieee! Not formal teaching, anyway.

I may make an overdue Ada Lovelace Day post about my science/tech background/job after I have my diploma in hand.

[majoline]

Ada Lovelace Day post (however belated) sounds pretty nifty.

[holyschist]

There was a cool quasi-meme going around last week for women in STEM to represent, and I liked reading other people's posts. I thought about doing one, but I'm still a bit cagey until I have that diploma because given my location, it would be very easy to figure my program. My program which is toxic. (The kind of toxic where current and former employees cryptically complain about it on Facebook! It's great! /sarcasm)

I was also thinking about a nice Ada Lovelace Day post about some of my favorite women scientists, but I didn't get to that either. Maybe next year.

[majoline]

Don't worry I know how that feels! *hugs* And in MS which is too small of a state to have any way out either. *sigh*