internal candidate.
One nice thing about LiveJournal is that it is not connected to Facebook, so one can vent things here that would not be useful/appropriate in that much more public space.
UvA is advertising a full time Victorian position w/ Gender studies as one of the add ons. I want to apply, and asked my friend (she of the affair) what her thoughts were, and if she had any advice. Well, it turns out that there is an internal candidate (sounds like they have a grad student they want to promote to assistant prof) and the advert is a formality.
which sounds less than fair, and less than legal, if you ask me. Friend says that I can still apply since it will 'get my name out there.' But this also makes me wonder how competitive this school actually is? We were always told that universities actively sought to hire outside their own system so that they could continue to build a strong and diverse department.
Also friend keeps asking when I am going to visit her in York. Um, I don't think I will visit because a: I am saving up funds to go to at least two conferences this summer, and a possible trip to Ireland, and b: awkward -- What, I am going to stay on the couch of their rented apartment (which they rent because friend/lover do not want to stay in his house, full of memories and family photographs).
In other news -- Dutch class is going o.k. but not fabulous. The book system that the course uses is so badly designed (one of my fellow students is a designer) and so incomprehensible that one of the students brings her Dutch husband to class to help explain what the hell is going on. And even the Dutch husband says he is lost as times. To be fair, the husband is there because our fellow student is from Chile and has very little English, so he translates some directions into Spanish. But, we know how to say things like "Where are we? What page are we on now? What does the book want us to do here?" The instructor supplements the book with songs, providing us with copies of the lyrics. We spend more useful time going over the songs, since the book is so bad.
Like Jake says, "Dutch is not that hard, but the book is so confusing that everyone thinks the language is impossible." Jake has the same book system with his tutor.
Back to class -- the instructor has a game which we play every class. It started with paired phrases from the songs written on the board. One person says one phrase, then throws an inflatable globe to someone else in class, and that person says the following phrase. As we have added more phrases, the instructor just writes the first couple words of each phrase on the board. I tried memorizing the phrases but they don't stick. So I typed them up instead, sending the file to everyone in class.
-K
UvA is advertising a full time Victorian position w/ Gender studies as one of the add ons. I want to apply, and asked my friend (she of the affair) what her thoughts were, and if she had any advice. Well, it turns out that there is an internal candidate (sounds like they have a grad student they want to promote to assistant prof) and the advert is a formality.
which sounds less than fair, and less than legal, if you ask me. Friend says that I can still apply since it will 'get my name out there.' But this also makes me wonder how competitive this school actually is? We were always told that universities actively sought to hire outside their own system so that they could continue to build a strong and diverse department.
Also friend keeps asking when I am going to visit her in York. Um, I don't think I will visit because a: I am saving up funds to go to at least two conferences this summer, and a possible trip to Ireland, and b: awkward -- What, I am going to stay on the couch of their rented apartment (which they rent because friend/lover do not want to stay in his house, full of memories and family photographs).
In other news -- Dutch class is going o.k. but not fabulous. The book system that the course uses is so badly designed (one of my fellow students is a designer) and so incomprehensible that one of the students brings her Dutch husband to class to help explain what the hell is going on. And even the Dutch husband says he is lost as times. To be fair, the husband is there because our fellow student is from Chile and has very little English, so he translates some directions into Spanish. But, we know how to say things like "Where are we? What page are we on now? What does the book want us to do here?" The instructor supplements the book with songs, providing us with copies of the lyrics. We spend more useful time going over the songs, since the book is so bad.
Like Jake says, "Dutch is not that hard, but the book is so confusing that everyone thinks the language is impossible." Jake has the same book system with his tutor.
Back to class -- the instructor has a game which we play every class. It started with paired phrases from the songs written on the board. One person says one phrase, then throws an inflatable globe to someone else in class, and that person says the following phrase. As we have added more phrases, the instructor just writes the first couple words of each phrase on the board. I tried memorizing the phrases but they don't stick. So I typed them up instead, sending the file to everyone in class.
-K