1st year of graduate school, pt. II.
Some part of me really misses writing here, but with graduate school, I don't really have the emotional capacity to sit down and write an entry at the end of the day. Things have been especially hectic after reading and writing papers during almost my entire winter break, then returning to school to deal with the sticky mess of figuring out my classes for the semester and dealing with registration issues.
In other news, I feel that while I may not be satisfied with my performance in classes last semester, at least the paper-writing experience has been extremely productive. Not that it was always pleasant, but I've been forced to think in new ways about how to go about doing research and organizing my papers as I take on longer papers with more involved research. I managed to find topics that are genuinely interesting and provocative in some way for me with each paper--I really will try to find time later to write about how I feel that studying literature is inextricably connected to studying life and human relations. But of course, that's how it should be, and that's why I'm doing this. And people assume that researching literature is dry, esoteric, and irrelevant. Well, after I'm done settling in for the semester, something more interesting than this.
In other news, I feel that while I may not be satisfied with my performance in classes last semester, at least the paper-writing experience has been extremely productive. Not that it was always pleasant, but I've been forced to think in new ways about how to go about doing research and organizing my papers as I take on longer papers with more involved research. I managed to find topics that are genuinely interesting and provocative in some way for me with each paper--I really will try to find time later to write about how I feel that studying literature is inextricably connected to studying life and human relations. But of course, that's how it should be, and that's why I'm doing this. And people assume that researching literature is dry, esoteric, and irrelevant. Well, after I'm done settling in for the semester, something more interesting than this.