The journey to follow my bliss continues, especially now when I’m getting really burned out by work. It’s compounded by the fact that I’m working at the same institution where I received my doctoral degree, and as much as I love my university and as fancy as the city where it is located, I’m ready for a change. This change might come in about three ( Read more... )

The end of my PhD life means a lot of reevaluating of things in my career that make me un/happy. I’ve come to accept that I don’t like certain aspects of my work and have to figure out ways to, well, work with them because they’re necessary to get me to where I need to be ( Read more... )

Hello from the other end of PhD life! I have (quietly) graduated about a week ago and will walk at the May 2024 commencement ceremony. One of my regrets is having gone this far without once making a vlog of my PhD student life, but I have come to accept the fact that for me, being a PhD mama means I don’t have the time and energy to do other things ( Read more... )

Since the last time I’ve posted here (more than a year ago!!), I have defended my proposal December 10, 2021 and passed with minor revisions. I’m mostly finished with my data collection and am doing data analysis and writing Chapters 4 and 5 in earnest with the aim of having a first draft end of December or early January, a penultimate draft by ( Read more... )

Been a couple of months since I toyed with the idea of vlogging and I'm nowhere near the level of energy and capacity needed to start one even though the motivation is there. Writing my dissertation proposal has been my focus as of late. It is the source of both my excitement and anxiety. I may go back to just doing one-minute-long Tagalog Tuesdays ( Read more... )

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I'm loving more and more the idea of booktubing (inspired by @readwithcindy). It would be a good way to get back into my love for reading. Like millions of other bookworm-kids-turned-nonreading-adults, I've fallen out of the habit of reading after university. Watching the booktubers make me realize why and how much I loved reading. Thinking of ( Read more... )

One of the things I'll definitely remember about these unprecedented times in our lives is my growing obsession with YouTube. While I've attempted to start a channel myself, my introvert ass is still grappling with how to display my raw self for public view so I've kept my videos private in Instagram while I try to figure out how to do produce my ( Read more... )

Anxiety. Panic. Fear. Undoubtedly feeling these things but also the quietness that comes with isolation. Cherishing this time with my family at home. Taking this time to go back to journaling to quell the aforementioned feelings. Getting to know myself more. What I want from this life.

I caught an 嵐 documentary the other night on Netflix and it ( Read more... )

On a data collection trip to Indiana right now. I find this part of the research process interesting and rather uncomfortable, but reminding myself that there will always be parts to any endeavour where I may not be feeling like I'm on top of my game. And probably a huge element of this discomfort comes from the fact that this is my fifth trip ( Read more... )