The starting line
I got into graduate school.
I am officially a doctoral student at Boston University's Archaeology program.
So why am I still all knotted up inside?
This is something which I have worked and slaved for, which I have sacrificed, bled, and cried for. For years I have crucified myself against my studies in an effort for a single moment of recognition...
and it has come.
Yet I still feel so unbelievably empty. I guess "empty" is the wrong word.. I'm deeply apprehensive and more than a little anxious. Perhaps it's because I still haven't quite processed the reality of my impending higher level education, or perhaps it's because I still don't quite feel right in my shoes. What I know for certain is that my current position drives me mad with how unbelievably banal and stressful it is and I'm crazy with anticipation for the coming year.
Perhaps a quote from my father encapsulates this effectively.. when I told him I got in to the program he smiled proudly and said...
"Congratulations on making it to the starting line..."
busy busy busy
I am officially a doctoral student at Boston University's Archaeology program.
So why am I still all knotted up inside?
This is something which I have worked and slaved for, which I have sacrificed, bled, and cried for. For years I have crucified myself against my studies in an effort for a single moment of recognition...
and it has come.
Yet I still feel so unbelievably empty. I guess "empty" is the wrong word.. I'm deeply apprehensive and more than a little anxious. Perhaps it's because I still haven't quite processed the reality of my impending higher level education, or perhaps it's because I still don't quite feel right in my shoes. What I know for certain is that my current position drives me mad with how unbelievably banal and stressful it is and I'm crazy with anticipation for the coming year.
Perhaps a quote from my father encapsulates this effectively.. when I told him I got in to the program he smiled proudly and said...
"Congratulations on making it to the starting line..."
busy busy busy