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It's no joke that I hate grad school. That's not true. I hate 651- Information Professions.
I love art history because I get As. I love other library classes because they are practical and I get As. I am learning reference librarianship. I am learning nothing except disdain in 651.
We have to do a paper for this class. I choose to do a pretty thorough history of the New York Public Library- the conditions in late 19h century New York City that led to its founding, the collections, the architecture. I've done like 10 hours at least of reading, and several trips all around Manhattan and Brooklyn getting books, and two or three hours looking at databases trying to include accounts of renovations to make the paper more current.
I was told "No, this doesn't fit the rubric of the assignment." Her topic suggestions are paraprofessional, digitizations, Patriot Act. I find that stuff pretty boring to write on. It's just not what I'm going to school for. Furthermore, while someday I will have an opinion on digitization, I don't yet, since this is an intro class. Intro classes should just have looser guidelines.
So she hasn't written me back, and I feel like today is a waste too, since I'm not going to look at other topics until she writes me back, commenting on my new ideas.
I hate how my mom tells everyone how happy I am here and how much I love library school. She takes no news as good news, instead of thinking 'Maybe Judith doesn't want to tell me how upset she is about hating a class she paid $10,000 for."
Goddammit.
I love art history because I get As. I love other library classes because they are practical and I get As. I am learning reference librarianship. I am learning nothing except disdain in 651.
We have to do a paper for this class. I choose to do a pretty thorough history of the New York Public Library- the conditions in late 19h century New York City that led to its founding, the collections, the architecture. I've done like 10 hours at least of reading, and several trips all around Manhattan and Brooklyn getting books, and two or three hours looking at databases trying to include accounts of renovations to make the paper more current.
I was told "No, this doesn't fit the rubric of the assignment." Her topic suggestions are paraprofessional, digitizations, Patriot Act. I find that stuff pretty boring to write on. It's just not what I'm going to school for. Furthermore, while someday I will have an opinion on digitization, I don't yet, since this is an intro class. Intro classes should just have looser guidelines.
So she hasn't written me back, and I feel like today is a waste too, since I'm not going to look at other topics until she writes me back, commenting on my new ideas.
I hate how my mom tells everyone how happy I am here and how much I love library school. She takes no news as good news, instead of thinking 'Maybe Judith doesn't want to tell me how upset she is about hating a class she paid $10,000 for."
Goddammit.