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*waves* MSc Information Management and Preservation student here. And wondering what I have got myself into ;)

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Oh, goodness, I have no idea how I'll find time to write this year. :/

Fifth year PhD student in biology, trying to wrap up several major projects and write a paper ... hopefully I will get some things off my plate by November, because the way things are going right now, I have less than an hour/day of free time for writing, and absolutely no energy for it! :(

Yay! Other crazy grad students who are doing this...

I'm doing a PhD in microbiology. I've also done Nano since 2001, so if I haven't learned time management by now, I probably never will.

http://www.gamalei.net/nano/

Hello to my fellow grad students! I'm finishing up my MA in Education this semester and substitute teaching on the side. Goodness knows when I'll find time to do NaNo but I'm sure there are a few spare hours lurking in there somewhere.

Blandles - I know the feeling. I started my grad career in a history PhD program before switching. Which area are you specializing in? I was East Asia.

Woot grad students! I'm in my second year of a PhD in Pharmacology. I'm just starting my thesis research, I have to TA for a class, and I'm also taking a class. Luckily enough, I share quiz-making and test-proctoring duties with a few other TAs and I don't have to write any of the quizzes/grade quizzes or proctor any tests/grade tests in November, but a quiz and test in October and a quiz in December. Gotta love the little things making their way for NaNo :)

First year Religious Studies PhD here! I'm not at all confident in my ability to pull this off, to be honest. I've got a killer workload in November, and the pressure right now is bordering on insane, but I'm going to try! I also have that niggling never-to-be-employed feeling, but I think that's a given in the Humanities, these days.

Hi everyone :) I'm in the middle of a Masters in public health. I have two exams and a major paper due in November, and this is my first year doing NaNo, so I have no idea if I'll get anywhere near the 50 000 words!

Second year Masters student here! I failed miserably last year trying to balance Nano and grad school and I have even more to do this year, so not sure how things will fair. Not about to give up before even trying though.

First year grad student working towards my MFA in Writing. I'm not sure how realistic I'm being adding NaNo to my plate along with a full course load (which includes a writing workshop ... can't submit the oddities that emerge from my brain during NaNo for that :-P ), as well as a writing class I am fully responsible for as a TA. (The next batch of papers for me to respond to comes in on my birthday ... yay!) I wasn't able to win my junior and senior years of college, though I did so comfortably the three years before that.

But I realized last month that, after five years, there's no way I can *not* do NaNoWriMo. So, here I am, plotless, characterless, and without time. Hehe. Time for November.

MA in Teaching. Just started mid Augest. Anybody else find phdcomics.com all too true sometimes?

"Jesus Christ I'm not scared to die.
I'm a little bit scared of what comes after.
Do I get the gold chariot?
Do I float through the ceiling?"

Hah, I love phd comics! It's more geared towards science/engineering kids, but some truths about academia are just universal...

2008 - Seven One Night Stands with Warren Moon - erotic/satire - ultimately a fail, but it had a helluva run while it lasted!

2009 - The Porphyry Column - mainstream/fantasy - ??

I'm in my last year of working on an MA in anthropology. I have no earthly idea how I'm going to manage both grad school and NaNo, but I'm going to try!

I'm in my second year of a MS in evolutionary biology. And I just got told that my advisor wants a rough draft of my complete thesis by early December.

I THINK I can pull that much off. The writing's not that much more of a problem on top of 50k anyway, it's all the hand-drawn illustrations that are going to kill me. It's just that I'm funded on a TAship, too, which means there are office hours, and labs, and all the _grading_........

Yeah. NaNo this year is a really, really terrible idea. Which will not be stopping me from doing it anyway.

I'm a vet student. Going to give this a try, although I'm predicting full-blown insanity by the end of November. D:

I am a first year MBA student who also works part time and not sure how I'll survive lol. I have at least two, if not three, projects due in November, I'll be working probably 20 hours per week, and I have at least one full weekend of film events and possibly a second.

The only consolation is my boyfriend will be attempting it for the first time with me even though I've done it the past three years.

*waves* 3rd year PhD in archaeological conservation. Currently based at the British Museum in London. With over an hour commute each way to get here, I'm figuring that's the best time to get any writing done, but erkle! - handwriting + being a sardine on the tube + NO plot ideas yet = why am I doing this again??

But I couldn't resist. I had too much fun last year, and if I have to fly by the seat of my pants, then so be it!

(And yes, Phdcomics describes my life faaar too often for comfort...)

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Hey everyone,

I'm in my first year if my MA for Education. I've been working my butt off for the past two months to try and get ahead so I have November all to myself. It is not as easy as it sounds of course. I have a 25 page history paper due early December, 3 or more presentations in November. Very lame but I'll manage.

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Hi there fellow sufferers,

I'm wrapping up my PhD thesis in bone biology as we speak.
I should be done by the end of the year.
NaNo is my way of getting away from all the scientific mumbo-jumbo.

I think it's also called procrastination : )

It will definitely not contain the phrase "significant decrease/increase" anywhere at all.

Hi fellow grad students!
I'm in my first year of a political science PHD. It's my second year of nano-ing; I didn't make it to the finish line last year largely because of having to do grad school apps, and think actually being in grad school this year is going to make it even harder. But what the hell, you never know until you try, right?

I will walk out of the darkness/ And I'll walk into the light/ And I'll sing the song of ages/ And the dawn will end the night. -Van Morrison, "Dweller on the Threshold"

Ah, first year English Lit. MA here. Always nice to know I'm not alone jumping into NaNo when I really shouldn't. Which will break first, my incentive to actually do work and thus get a job someday, or my pig-headed devotion to completing a novel? Only time will tell!

(Prediction: it will be my inclination to work, which hangs on a razor's edge anyway. I do not turn down opportunities to procrastinate.)

First year Masters in Library and Information Science...yay for other grad students...now I know I'm not that crazy to think I can do this. Good luck everyone!

Starting my MBA in... *looks at calendar* ...two weeks. I'm only taking one class this half-semester, though, so hopefully, even with my full time job, I'll be able to make a good effort this year. :)

Woo! Go grad students! I'm in year two of an Arts Administration MA, and teaching full time! Plus, finals are in November, so this is going to be great.

Good luck everyone!

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Golly, so many science people! I figured it'd be mostly Lit and MFA (though of course we love Lit and MFAs!).

Dutchbando, congrats on making the switch! I'm history of science, but I do have a soft spot for Asia, especially since my current department hasn't had an Asianist in something like 50 years.

Anyone else racing to get coursework/term papers/portfolios/dissertations (hey, aim high) done before Nov. 1?

Working on my PhD in Lit at the moment - first year, so it's still early days (at least, that is what I'm telling myself).

yay! More insane grad students that are trying to do too much at once! :D Fifth year in a PhD program in classics here, teaching and writing the diss. Don't know how nano is going to fit in - it's my first - but I'm so excited!!! And pages are pages... sort of....!

I'm a first year law student (yay for 1Ls!!!). i'm trying to get my outlines for all my classes started this month so its not as insanely crazy in november when we're studying for finals (well techinically mid terms for everything except Torts). I will find a way to make it work. Always do.

NaNo '05: Love, Rebecca Lynn (50,100)
NaNo '06: The Keymaster's Apprentice (50,500)
NaNo '07: The House of Jacob (65,715)
NaNo '08: El baile de la gitana (50,051)
NaNo '09: Ferry Me Home (??,???)

Well howdy, yall!

I'm a master's student in American Culture Studies at BGSU. I'm teaching, being taught, and now trying to write 50K. Go Go Gadget Over Extension! Despite the fact that I'm still getting used to being an instructor and student, dealing with a car that hates me, settling into a new home, this displaced Southern boy is looking forward to having something OTHER than grad school to stress out about.

Wow, there are so many grad students this year!

I'm a 4th year grad student getting my PhD in Atmospheric Science. I had never heard of NaNoWriMo until about a month before it started last year, so this will only be my 2nd time, but it's been a blast so far!

I don't know about other areas, but in my experience, science graduate students often have to do a lot of traveling to conferences and stuff. Anybody else dealing with that this year? I have a conference the last week of October, which cuts into my planning time, and then I'm on a field project the middle 2 weeks of November. Hooray for juggling too many things at once!

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Fortunately for me, my conferences are during the summer (although I'm going to try to get my abstract done by early December). I can imagine, though, that doing Nano on top of that would be way busy. I feel frazzled just thinking about it.

http://www.gamalei.net/nano/