Greetings from the Northeast!!!
Wow, I can't believe how long I've neglected this page. I've started life as a graduate student at the Unviersity of Connecticut. UConn is a nice place, but it's definitely the most rural area I've ever been in. I'm trying to find a car so I can get from my place to campus and back, and also be able ot leave the area on some days. There are buses here, but they run maybe once an hour, and they stop running at 7pm, which is pretty crappy (especially since the class I TA for goes from 6-8pm).
I'm working as a teaching assistant and a research assistant this semester. I'm TA'ing for my faculty advisor here for his "Drugs and Society" class. The work is relatively easy, and mostly clerical. I show up to lectures, take notes, have office hours, and othe than that, have to record grades and at most, grade one paper that not everyone in the 350-person class writes.
I'm working as a research assistant in the North American Jewish Databank that's on campus. My first job was supposed to be seeing what's in the archives (boring, but easy work), but instead I've proofread a professor's manuscript about philanthropy and giving to charity among various groups of Jews.
As far as courses that I'm taking, I'm in Core Theorists, Logic of Social Research, and Corporatization, Race, Class and Gender. The first two classes are necessary (and honestly I'm not that excited about them), and the last class should be interesting. What's kind of funny is some of the readings that I had to do for Grindstaff's culture class back at UC Davis are readings that I have to do for it. I'm pretty nervous, at least early on, because I have to prove to myself that I can handle the workload here and that I am on the level of my classmates.
In non-school news, it was a great college football weekend for me. Washington won at Syracuse 42-12, and Cal beat Tennessee 45-31. Good times. =)
I'm working as a teaching assistant and a research assistant this semester. I'm TA'ing for my faculty advisor here for his "Drugs and Society" class. The work is relatively easy, and mostly clerical. I show up to lectures, take notes, have office hours, and othe than that, have to record grades and at most, grade one paper that not everyone in the 350-person class writes.
I'm working as a research assistant in the North American Jewish Databank that's on campus. My first job was supposed to be seeing what's in the archives (boring, but easy work), but instead I've proofread a professor's manuscript about philanthropy and giving to charity among various groups of Jews.
As far as courses that I'm taking, I'm in Core Theorists, Logic of Social Research, and Corporatization, Race, Class and Gender. The first two classes are necessary (and honestly I'm not that excited about them), and the last class should be interesting. What's kind of funny is some of the readings that I had to do for Grindstaff's culture class back at UC Davis are readings that I have to do for it. I'm pretty nervous, at least early on, because I have to prove to myself that I can handle the workload here and that I am on the level of my classmates.
In non-school news, it was a great college football weekend for me. Washington won at Syracuse 42-12, and Cal beat Tennessee 45-31. Good times. =)