I received the flash photography copy and absolutely do not like it. I was sweating makeup off and the sash with the gown was not on correctly. Is it too late to find someone who could do grad photos? Prefer just a typical headshot with a background and the gown on, doesn’t have to be outdoors. Open to any recommendations!!
I have a bachelors and masters in digital media arts and completed and published a research thesis. I would like to go into archiving regarding a very niche form of digital work. I eventually want to do a PhD in information science or digital humanities after working in archives for a bit.
Pennwest has an archive concentration, is extremely affordable, based in the state I want to work in, but no thesis option. I’m worried about this option because of how it may look on future PhD applications.
UWM has a similar concentration but requires a thesis and is 28k in total and based in a state I wouldn’t move to. I’m having cold feet about this program mainly due to the cost but also because of how Wisconsin-based a lot of the alumni are and how many are just local librarians.
I’m wondering if it’s necessary for me to do a 2nd thesis and if I should pick UWM due to its research reputation.
The thesis I did recently was focused on the type of work I want to help preserve, but doesn’t involve anything with archiving. I also don’t have any other research papers published, just a few arts publications the thesis has been featured in. I plan to apply to lots of fellowships and grants regardless of which I pick.
Any advice is appreciated.
I have a BFA and MS in media arts. Due to the nature of my studies and how artistic it is, i have ended up in marketing teams as a content designer for nearly 10 years now and I’m so tired of it. I’m burned out by the dominance of social media in this industry, I’m always being rushed with tight deadlines, and work 50+ hours a week with lots of pressure from C-suite executives. I’ve tried applying for creative agencies or more product-based companies like others have suggested and never hear back, as it’s so competitive and my portfolio is really just not that strong not matter how much I try.
I interned twice at a small museum in a rural state and loved it. I felt absolutely at home there. However, they did not want to employee me since they had dwindling tourism numbers and decreased funding.
I have since moved to a northeastern metro full of history, museums, archives, libraries. I feel like I am missing out if I just stay in marketing.
I was recently accepted into UWM’s online MLIS with a concentration in archives. It is 28k in total and I would like to do part time. I would love to work specifically on archival practices with digital art and literature and think it would pair well with my current masters.
I make decent money through my current job and plan to keep it while I complete it. Am I foolish trying to leave marketing just because I’m unhappy right now? I read lots of comments and horror stories of people receiving an MLIS and never finding work or work that pays so little they can barely live.
I have a BFA and MS in media arts. Due to the nature of my studies and how artistic it is, i have ended up in marketing teams as a content designer for nearly 10 years now and I’m so tired of it. I’m burned out by the dominance of social media in this industry, I’m always being rushed with tight deadlines, and work 50+ hours a week with lots of pressure from C-suite executives. I’ve tried applying for creative agencies or more product-based companies like others have suggested and never hear back, as it’s so competitive and my portfolio is really just not that strong not matter how much I try.
I interned twice at a small museum in a rural state and loved it. I felt absolutely at home there. However, they did not want to employee me since they had dwindling tourism numbers and decreased funding.
I have since moved to a northeastern metro full of history, museums, archives, libraries. I feel like I am missing out if I just stay in marketing.
I was recently accepted into UWM’s online MLIS with a concentration in archives. It is 28k in total and I would like to do part time. I would love to work specifically on archival practices with digital art and literature and think it would pair well with my current masters.
I make decent money through my current job and plan to keep it while I complete it. Am I foolish trying to leave marketing just because I’m unhappy right now? I read lots of comments and horror stories of people receiving an MLIS and never finding work or work that pays so little they can barely live.
This is my first time talking about this.
I’ve been with my boyfriend for six years. We met online, saw each other in-person for a year, and I moved into his parents’ house. He was in his late 20s, had never lived on his own or started a career. I ignored the warning signs because I loved him, he never raised his voice, and I wanted to escape my bizarre home life. I also had a previous dating experience with a malignant stalker that scared me very badly and felt like I had finally found a safe person. I was behind my peers in multiple areas of life and hoped we’d build together. He promised me that he would make a lot of money and we would move to a nice apartment in the city. He started college and earned very high grades in a rigorous program.
Early on, he told me he used to use cocaine. He stopped after I moved in, and I believe he’s stayed off it, but looking back, the addiction seemed to shift to alcohol and weed.
He would spend a few nights a week drinking 12–24 beers, smoking weed, and sitting at his computer until 3am. His parents would come home from work at night. I felt like they knew what was going on and just chose to be passive about it. He’d wake me up on my nights before work asking for my car keys to buy more alcohol up the road. He eventually started mixing alcohol with sleep aids and occasionally would pass out in the chair or wander into my room speaking gibberish and sprawl out on my bed, causing me to move to another room. He always has an excuse for the drinking: bad sleep, school stress, a near accident on the highway. Additionally, he had several panic attacks from the weed that led to me having to call ambulances or take him to the hospital.
I almost left once a few years ago because I felt stuck while my friends were building careers and lives in the city. I told him I was moving to the city to be like my friends and was tired of living with his parents. He begged me to stay and sobbed seeing I had packed up all my things. He told me if I leaved his life would be "dark" again and that his family loved me and would be sad to see me go. I felt terrible, so I stayed, and I went to a grad school program online partly to cope with that feeling of missing out. We started traveling to get out of his parent's home more and I felt a bit better.
Eventually, we both graduated. We moved to the city after the online program helped me get a job there. His parents had to help us get the apartment and it is an extremely small studio. I now work a demanding full-time professional job, while he recently quit an entry-level job after six months because of "crazy customers". He started studying for a new certification exam and insisted he needed the time to focus on it. His parents gave him a credit card that he uses for food, weed, and entertainment. They recently complained about paying for the apartment and tried to push us into marriage, offering to buy us a suburban house. I don't want to live in the suburbs and don't think he's ready to marry. So I started paying my half of the rent. I pay for most of our groceries and my car's upkeep, which I had to add him on the insurance since he uses it frequently.
I have been feeling not so great about this situation for the past year. But last night pushed me over the edge.
He had been sober for 40 days and things were great. We then went on a trip, had some drinks at the restaurants, and he promised he’d only drink when outside of the city. But the second we got home in the evening, he bought a 12 pack and sat in front of his computer drinking and smoking again.
I had work at 8am and asked him to come to bed at a reasonable time. He ignored me, jokingly calling me “mean” and tried to tickle me to get me to laugh. I tried sleeping with the headphones and eye mask but I could still hear him shifting around and slamming the bottles on his desk. Eventually I snapped and told him I was exhausted from dealing with this and that he needs to get a grip about his habits and get a job. He broke down crying, then angrily yelled that I don’t support him, that he is always seen as the bad guy, I only criticize him, and told me “f*** you.” He stayed up sobbing to himself, ate a bunch of food and left it ouut on the counter, then passed out in his chair before finally laying in the bed around 2:30am.
I called out of work today because I barely slept and feel like I have come down the flu. This morning he acted like nothing happened and asked "don't you have work?". I told him I was sick and he said "why are you sick?" in a very condescending tone. I just didn't say anything and then he casually mentioned he was “fixing up” his resume for LinkedIn.
I feel exhausted and cheated out of my young adulthood. I’m angry at his parents for raising such a spoiled son, angry at him for refusing to grow up, and angry at myself for staying and being dependent. I feel so jealous of the women around me who don't deal with this and are out there with a social life, with their own apartment, with full independence.
I honestly don’t know what to do. I have never lived alone. I don't qualify for any of the apartments near by on my income alone and don't ever want roommates. I don't know if I want to end this relationship or how to do. I'm scared. But I feel like my resentment for him just keeps growing and it's not good.
Had a few questions for any current or former students:
-How is this program? Has it helped anyone get into PhD programs?
-Are all classes asynchronous?
-How is the archival studies concentration?
This would be my second masters, I did my first in media art and want to research storytelling in digital archives, preservation of digital communities. I’m in a corporate job and would like to continue working full-time while I complete it, which is why the online delivery appeals to me. I’m hoping to improve my application for fully funded PhD programs and transition to academia full time.
I’ll be walking outside, not even in a crowded area, glance at them and look away, and they will turn around and spit so close to me it feels almost intentional. First time it happened, I just thought it was bad timing, but now it’s clear there’s a pattern.
This morning I passed and they spit so close it flung up and hit my arm a little. Not enough for me to call police and say it’s assault but it was disgusting and weird, and this person was not homeless or mentally ill but on their way to work or school.
I’m a white female and every time it’s done by only males of another race. 100% feels like I’m being targeted for who I am in the city, like how dare I be here or something. Like what the hell?
I’m on a CyberPowerPC, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G. Can’t remember the graphics card right now but I’ve had this happen once before with another graphics card so I think it’s unrelated.
I was gone for a few days and someone in my house unplugged the HDMI connecting my monitor to my desktop to use it for something else.
I got the HDMI back and connected it to the CPU and booted up the computer, it wouldn’t show any signal. I realized I had it on the GPU previously, so I unplugged and connected it there, still no signal.
-I’ve rebooted both desktop and monitor everything multiple times
-Unplugged and let it sit for 30 minutes
-I’ve tried multiple HDMI cords and they all are working on other devices
-I’ve tried a DisplayPort cord, still no signal there
-I’ve tried CPU and GPU again and again multiple times
Last time this happened and I had to bring it all the way to a computer shop, and they made me come in and did something quick that fixed it. They said the computer was “confused” about where to send the signal…not sure what that means.
I called them again and they said I can just bring it back. They wouldn’t even tell me how to do it over the phone because I think they want to try to sell me some maintenance and upgrades there. I don’t want to haul it back there.
I’m sure I can fix this on my own with some guidance. Please help.
Every job I’ve been at, there’s a ton of pressure on me to have my photo, full name, email, and other identifying information on the website, listed with the building address we work in every day.
I have to opt out every time because I’m a stalking survivor and the offender is constantly trying to find me online and send threats. I’ve had police, FBI, and lawyer involved and no charges have been made, it’s ridiculous how I’m supposed to just wait for it get worse.
It’s incredibly embarrassing going through the story each time with HR, they never just accept “I want privacy” as an answer and look at me like I’m crazy even though I have a legal documented case. Other employees will ask why I’m not up on there yet or why my LinkedIn doesn’t list my current job, and I have to just say I don’t like to be online.
The amount of cybersecurity incidents we have from everyone’s information being public is crazy. I’m constantly having to report that someone is impersonating a manager and we receive emails from jobseekers who were scammed by people pretending to be one of our recruiters.
There is also a physical safety concern. The internet and easy access to information encourages harassment and assaults of people at companies caught up in conspiracy theories and controversy. The blackrock and insurance CEO shootings come to mind.
So when are companies going to finally step away from showing off their employees and realize privacy is what protects us all on multiple levels?
I was groomed online into the alt-right. I unfortunately used my real name to say red pill edgy things in private chats. It’s been many years since I left that. Most of people involved are deleted and gone, I definitely am, and even the server is gone. I have moved on and am living by a kinder, more rational philosophy.
However, there is just one person from my past who won’t leave me alone. I have been harassed and stalked solely online for over half a decade. I figured out quickly he is mentally ill and disabled, and has a small criminal history of harassment towards someone he knew IRL.
He is irrationally angry I stopped e-dating him and has sent mixed threats to harm me physically, attack a school I no longer attend, and named one of my recent jobs, claiming he had screenshots of my old bigoted messages and would expose me.
These threats are never followed through and are sporadic, but it causes me so much anxiety and I’m paranoid he will show up where I’m at one day.
I have gotten the FBI involved, hired a lawyer who got him to sign an affidavit, however he has received no charges. I was told the DA wasn’t going to pursue a case and was advised to not do a restraining order by the special agents that investigated him! It makes no sense to me, as I’ve seen people go to federal prison for the same kind of online threats he makes. He still is just free to keep tabs on me.
It’s been a year and I haven’t received any new harassment, which is good. But last time, he went a couple years without contacting me.
I can’t live like this. I feel like I have no option but to change my name and go into hiding.
I do know everything about this guy. I have collected his address, his family and friend’s addresses, as well as every news outlet in his small town. The list is about 15 people.
If he returns to harass me, would it be a bad idea if I sent copies from an e-address of all his threats with a professional letter outlining what he has done to me? I even thought about buying a billboard advertising a site that details what he did.
I need ideas. I’m so sick of this and I just have a feeling it won’t stop, so I want to just scream to the tops of my lungs that this guy is bothering me. I’m tired of hiding.
I have quite a bit of family from out of town wanting to come. Trying to plan the best I can before the date.
I requested 2 more tickets in my rsvp - how likely am I to get those at the grad fair? And how hard would it to be get 1 more after the grad fair, either from the school or another student?
Thanks!