Discord

We'd like for you to join our Discord community for this semester's cohort. Every semester, the server aims to provide:

• Peer Support Networks: Engage with your classmates from diverse fields. Exchange ideas, share your challenges, and celebrate victories together.

• Guidance: Benefit from the experience of the instructors and peers who've walked the path and are eager to share their insights and strategies they employ.

• Resource Sharing: Access a treasure trove of resources, from academic articles to writing tools, all curated to support your learning journey.

• Your Peer Review Group: Participate in constructive review sessions where your work is read, critiqued, and elevated by peers.

• Goal-Setting: Share your goals with your group or the class. Support others to set goals. Reflect on your goals and share your writing environment.

• Motivation Boosts: Find your tribe of motivators and accountability partners who'll keep you on track during those inevitable dips in motivation.

All in all! Ask lots of questions and engage! The server is there for you!

Susanna, Katarina and Djuddah will be there to answer and guide.

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We will ask you to adhere to the following rules as you engage with your peers:

1️⃣ Be Kind To Each Other

2️⃣ Ask Good Questions No Overwhelm-Olympics. Academic life is often very stressful and taxing. Too often, though, this turns into a competition about who's under the most pressure right now or self-deprecating jokes about horrible time management. In this community, we prefer to ask for concrete help in finding solutions and fixing a problem. For example, "Hey, what things have helped you all in making consistent writing progress?" is much more productive than "I'm so behind 😅".

3️⃣ No Culture War Diversity, equality and justice are incredibly important for a well-functioning academy. However, this is not the place to discuss them. Since this is an international student community with members from around the globe, there will be little shared context for how institutions and departments work and tackle these issues. Instead of exporting a specific type of discussion from the American academy to the rest of the world, we'll focus on our shared context in our fields of study and our shared interest in learning. If there are topics which you would like to raise, please discuss them with the instructor first.

4️⃣ Be Kind To Each Other - Part 2 All academic disciplines vary in their discussion culture. In particular, with regard to substantive feedback, some fields have a reputation for dispensing "robust" feedback, which is too often a euphemism for mean or "harsh" feedback. In this community, we will have none of that. You don't need to prove how smart you are to anyone here. We are not in mimetic competition about minor hierarchical differences or reputation points. If you give feedback, give it in a way that you would give it to a dear friend who's asking you to have coffee about a problem.