Moral Support!!

You shouldn't even have to ask the question.

 

You have to be one of the smartest human beings I ever interacted.

Not even a question.

 

Using Your Noodle | Surviving Your Ph.D., the After-life, and This Life in General scroll back in time. You'll find a similar meltdown from 2014.
You can fucking do this.

 

We're better at immoral support.

Academia seems obligated to put a few impossible hurdles in your way, just to see if it will throw you. Don't let it (and don't be one of those dicks once you have your Phd).

 

You will not only make it and look good doing it but you will inspire those of us who have been hanging back to take the risk ourselves.

 

You will make that PhD look good on you. ...like Will Smith and dark sunglasses

 

You are so very capable. You can and will do this. We have your back.

 

I have
absolutely no doubt
that you will obtain your Phd.


Is that emphatic enough?

 

Thread hijack--On.

Sorry, but I've been wanting to post this, and now I see an opening.

About seven years ago a older couple, around their late 50s, bought a house in our neighborhood. The man saw four of of us talking in another neighbor's yard--a yard sale IIRC--and came over to introduce himself and chat for a while. A little later his wife came over and introduced herself,

"I'm the doctor Her Name, blah, blah, blah."

We were a bit taken back by her "haughty" introduction, and I noticed that her husband cringed and hid his face by looking at the ground. I'm guessing that she was nervous and therefore trying to impress us. It didn't work because between the four of us we have/had (I'm not sure what tense to use): A masters, two bachelors, and an associates. Over time she relaxed, she's as down-to-earth as we are.

Thread hijack--Off.

 

I've ran across this on occasion, and rather than explain my viewpoint verbally, I'll just post a meme:


(apologies to Stan Laurel for borrowing the first half of this joke.)

 

Dr. mommy? Sounds Freudian.

I'll just leave this here, mommy-san...


View: https://youtu.be/oomCIXGzsR0?t=33s

 

Your post reminded me of something , which I've previously mentioned, but it's worth a repeat.

When I started at UH they had a widespread problem with book theft. The official on-campus bookstore was in large part at fault: For X number of weeks into the semester they would give full refunds on books (which makes sense because classes are dropped & added), but they didn't require a receipt. Duh!!

The library had many warning signs posted saying do not leave your books unattended. They also had many small study rooms with locking doors. When I asked about them I was told they were for graduate students only. When I mentioned that many remained unused the entire semester, I was told they were for graduate students only. When I asked why the library didn't make some of the unclaimed ones--say half--available to undergrads after the semester 'settled,' I was told they were for graduate students only.

 

I apologize for continuing the thread hi-jack, but I forgot mention this:

Another reason for the book theft problem was students from the surrounding universities & campuses--such as Houston Community College, the UH open-enrollment campuses, & Texas Southern University--also used the library. Which was fair, but unfortunately many students left their books unattended. IME getting your books, notebooks, etc. arranged for for some serious studying only to have to move them when what you needed was in another section of the library was a major PITA.

And some people thought that being 'first' at a table in the library gave them the right to claim more than their 1/6 of the table space (one table, six chairs three to a side). That's understandable when there are many available sets, but not when the library got crowded. "Move my books? I'm studying!!" "Yes, which is what I'm going to be doing once you move your books off of my table space."