Caffeinated On a Train

Lily and Lorraine fill you in on what they did over the semester break! Lily shares her tips for holding yourself together at conferences, and Lorraine gives you the ultimate and brutally honest review of the two summer schools she attended. Which one will win? Listen to find out! 

Please note that this episode contains some mature content, which Lorraine has courteously bleeped out with a censor sound effect.

Lily and Lorraine divulge  our secret to academic success and how to overcome common pitfalls to getting started on projects,  all while advertising their nonexistent Patreon account.

In a long-overdue and especially off-the-wall episode, Lily and Lorraine allegedly discuss the extracurricular activities associated with grad school, but mostly descend into madness while explicating the marketing strategy for their upcoming book "The Vorticists, Were They Gay?" Also featured: the results of Lily's modernism term paper, a shout-out to Karen Kelsey of The Professor is In, and stone-cold callouts about FU English classes. Leave a review with 5 stars and your guess of what we were talking about in the cut-out section two episodes ago, then share it on the social media platform of your choice.

Links Mentioned:

https://conferencealerts.com

https://networks.h-net.org (Humanities conference alerts)

http://www.progressiveconnexions.net (the conference network Lorraine works for)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlMdNcvCJo (Informer, the classic by Canadian rapper Snow)

Lorraine and Lily take a brief interlude in between classes to update you on how we are faring in our busyness  and the outcome of Lorraine's modernism paper! 

Lily and Lorraine reflect on how to deal with imposter syndrome and CV envy as well as how to engage in high-impact leisure time, with our usual Ezra-Wyndham claptrap sprinkled throughout.

Lorraine and Lily tackle an exceptionally busy semester at FU and talk about how to prevent burnout. They also chat about tragedies, kafkaesque Germany bureaucracy, and how to finish a 7500 word paper in 24 hours. 

Lily and Lorraine debrief at the end of their first semester at FU Berlin. They talk favourite classes, workload, plans for the semester break, term papers, burnout, and why you should go to school in Germany. 

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Lily and Lorraine introduce themselves and their academic interests. Join us for intense debate around the merits of the European university system, regular doses of Ezra Pound memes, and other insights of the type you'd expect from graduate literature students.