Oh my gosh, you guys. It's fall. AKA my most favorite time of year ever. Leaves on the ground and chilly mornings and sweaters and the smell! of bonfires and dying grass, I love it, I do
( Read more... )
Woe I miss autumn! I've only experienced it once in my life!
When do you start teaching prac? At least wait until you get some classroom experience before you decide it is the worst thing in the world. Oh hey, if your course doesn't send you on prac for a while can you go to work with one of your parents maybe and get a better feel for it? Just remember that it's a much longer process to get to teach college than it is to teach high school... but you do have plenty of time to change your mind in your life, as awful as the prospect of endless college might sound. And if you read Rate Your Students, the students who want to be in college classes are few and far between
( ... )
Only once? Do they not have autumn in Australia? That is so sad for you. :( I'll have to send you some dead leaves or something. ^_^
And...yeah. Everything you're saying is stuff that I've thought about, or been thinking about. Which is why I'm just complaining and not actually doing anything about it (yet). Getting certified to be a schoolteacher will take me, if I didn't do anything else on top of it, two years. I can maybe get out in a year and a half if I do summer classes...but I'm probably going to get an ESL certification this summer, if I can swing the tuition somehow. So two years. If I get into the English department's program I'm hoping I can be done with both degrees in three years. Which is probably what I'll do; it seems the most practical and also something that'll make me happy. And having two Masters' degrees will make it easier to get a more kick-ass high school job in a better district, etc.
I think a lot of the problem is that I haven't found my niche here yet, I haven't really met people I actually like (
( ... )
Well, I live in the tropics, not a temperate climate. The southern half of Australia is temperate, though.
I sympathise on the making friends thing. I came back to my hometown and now I have, like, two friends who haven't moved away. Woe. Meeting people is easy but meeting people you like is definitely hard. But it does happen, just in time. I can remember in my first couple of months in Leeds I was sad because I had lots of guy friends and various acquaintances, but no good girly friends to be girly with. Sometimes it takes a while for people to become comfortable with each other, which you tend to forget when you've been used to the same people and the same networks for a while.
Your adviser, on the other hand, clearly sucks upfront. Definitely look for a new one!
Typos! Round TWO!givinchycowgirlOctober 21 2008, 23:56:33 UTC
As we have emailed about this extensively, you already know I know and I know you know, and we are of the same mind, etc. and so forth. I just like getting comments on lj, so I figure you are again of the same mind.
:)
Also, I think for me it's a matter of being lazy about it because I don't want the stress. Passive aggressively, if you will. It's like my vaccination records-- I SO could have taken care of that sooner, but I dawdled about it until they literally put my account on hold (there was only one threatening email/warning before they did it!). Haha, I think in undergrad I would have been like,"AHHHHH DADDY HELP DADDY THEY PUT MY ACCOUNT ON HOOOOOLD DAAADDY!!!" But now I'm like, "Bitches, here's my record already. Chillage of the Grillage: A Must Have." Perhaps it's the necessary progression from undergrad to grad school: they don't give a shit about what classes we take and we don't give a shit about practicalities.
This is on the verge of being too long already, but there is a fabulous, over-dramatic Avenue Q song called "
( ... )
Re: Typos! Round TWO!goodbyechanceOctober 22 2008, 16:32:50 UTC
OMG I KNOW.
Um...yeah. Grad school is sooo not the same at all in any way. I should be doing work right now but instead I'm going to be up half the night tonight. YAY.
Comments 5
When do you start teaching prac? At least wait until you get some classroom experience before you decide it is the worst thing in the world. Oh hey, if your course doesn't send you on prac for a while can you go to work with one of your parents maybe and get a better feel for it?
Just remember that it's a much longer process to get to teach college than it is to teach high school... but you do have plenty of time to change your mind in your life, as awful as the prospect of endless college might sound. And if you read Rate Your Students, the students who want to be in college classes are few and far between ( ... )
Reply
I'll have to send you some dead leaves or something. ^_^
And...yeah. Everything you're saying is stuff that I've thought about, or been thinking about. Which is why I'm just complaining and not actually doing anything about it (yet). Getting certified to be a schoolteacher will take me, if I didn't do anything else on top of it, two years. I can maybe get out in a year and a half if I do summer classes...but I'm probably going to get an ESL certification this summer, if I can swing the tuition somehow. So two years. If I get into the English department's program I'm hoping I can be done with both degrees in three years. Which is probably what I'll do; it seems the most practical and also something that'll make me happy. And having two Masters' degrees will make it easier to get a more kick-ass high school job in a better district, etc.
I think a lot of the problem is that I haven't found my niche here yet, I haven't really met people I actually like ( ( ... )
Reply
I sympathise on the making friends thing. I came back to my hometown and now I have, like, two friends who haven't moved away. Woe. Meeting people is easy but meeting people you like is definitely hard. But it does happen, just in time. I can remember in my first couple of months in Leeds I was sad because I had lots of guy friends and various acquaintances, but no good girly friends to be girly with. Sometimes it takes a while for people to become comfortable with each other, which you tend to forget when you've been used to the same people and the same networks for a while.
Your adviser, on the other hand, clearly sucks upfront. Definitely look for a new one!
Reply
:)
Also, I think for me it's a matter of being lazy about it because I don't want the stress. Passive aggressively, if you will. It's like my vaccination records-- I SO could have taken care of that sooner, but I dawdled about it until they literally put my account on hold (there was only one threatening email/warning before they did it!). Haha, I think in undergrad I would have been like,"AHHHHH DADDY HELP DADDY THEY PUT MY ACCOUNT ON HOOOOOLD DAAADDY!!!" But now I'm like, "Bitches, here's my record already. Chillage of the Grillage: A Must Have." Perhaps it's the necessary progression from undergrad to grad school: they don't give a shit about what classes we take and we don't give a shit about practicalities.
This is on the verge of being too long already, but there is a fabulous, over-dramatic Avenue Q song called " ( ... )
Reply
Um...yeah. Grad school is sooo not the same at all in any way. I should be doing work right now but instead I'm going to be up half the night tonight. YAY.
Reply
Leave a comment