Media Studies Lecturer and PhD Student studying fangirls @ Uni of Huddersfield, girlhoods, popular music, fan politics, celebrity etc
Uni of Leeds and Emerson College alum, from LA now cozying up in the Yorkshire countryside.
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Ava Bucy
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In the most recent of # just hypermobile girlie things, my PhD work is being interrupted this afternoon bc my shoulder feels so loose and ouchy that I’m having to use my cardigan as a sling, which is in turn making my neck hurt 🙃
No marking was done today… I am incredibly behind… better luck tomorrow?
Idk tldr contextual and inconsistent age norms/expectations/self presentations are weird
Thinking about the doubled experience of being an ECR/PhD student, zillennial where 30s isn’t automatically “old”, and single (all thus still “young”) vs my role as a module lead, supervisor, etc to students (thus “old”), esp bc in normal (non failing HE) circumstances, I’d prob still only be a TA…
Should I order a roll of tape with a custom “if the poster is AI I’m not coming” design that I can slap on terrible posters around town?
I also wonder how/if the experience will change once I finish the PhD and am thus maybe still discursively “young” in broader contexts but am no longer a “student” who has prematurely taken on/been given responsibilities that once belonged to full professors
The oligarchs want us to blindly accept AI's societal destruction, with them as overlords doling out crumbs. Young people are having none of the bullshit they're selling.
How am I meant to grade papers on a day like today?
Ava Bucy
I’m a 1st gen uni student. My mum, nan & godfather sat in Canterbury Cathedral on my graduation day, waiting to *hear my name called out*
It’s such an important, human moment. This college tried to automate and dehumanise it & in doing so, ruined one of the most important days in their lives.
I gave up after ten questions with three I simply couldn't answer
The options were all limited to the status quo in slightly different shades
Radical change of one kind or another is upon us whether we want it or not and this is indeed leaving us wallowing in the past
