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Grad School is making me insane. I have a paper due on Monday and I don't think I can do it. It's an historical/legal research paper where I supposed to find case law about different aspects of the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act. I'm expected to interpret the over-arching implications of various cases involved with these aspects, how the treatment of students has changed over time with regard to a particular aspect, as well as how these cases impacted the legislation.
I see two problems with this. The main one is that I have no experience in reading or interpreting case law, as well as no idea where to even locate the appropriate files. The professor has missed the last class and has not returned my e-mails. All of the course information online is different from what she handed out because the two sections of the class are taught by different people with different standards.
Secondly, I am opposed to this project on a philosophical level. I know that everyone reading this will tell me to bite the bullet and just do the project, but I feel that I'm paying WAY too much to be focusing on anything that isn't going to directly help me in the classroom. While I appreciate the importance of knowing why I have to understand why the disability laws are the way they are, I am need of practical information, like how to teach them, and what kinds of accommodations they need. Well-roundedness is important, but well-roundedness is for undergrad. Specificity is for fucking expensive grad school.
I am distraught.
Also, I have an interview on Monday with a school that is on the opposite side of pittsburgh.
I see two problems with this. The main one is that I have no experience in reading or interpreting case law, as well as no idea where to even locate the appropriate files. The professor has missed the last class and has not returned my e-mails. All of the course information online is different from what she handed out because the two sections of the class are taught by different people with different standards.
Secondly, I am opposed to this project on a philosophical level. I know that everyone reading this will tell me to bite the bullet and just do the project, but I feel that I'm paying WAY too much to be focusing on anything that isn't going to directly help me in the classroom. While I appreciate the importance of knowing why I have to understand why the disability laws are the way they are, I am need of practical information, like how to teach them, and what kinds of accommodations they need. Well-roundedness is important, but well-roundedness is for undergrad. Specificity is for fucking expensive grad school.
I am distraught.
Also, I have an interview on Monday with a school that is on the opposite side of pittsburgh.