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I suck at updating. Still.
So, here's what's been going on. We find out that the office-thing is slightly... (and I hate this word) unfair. The guidelines that was posted on It's Learning back in August (and then removed) said offices would be distributed according to how many study points we have accumulated during our masters coursework. I have all 60 from last year. So has the two other students from my program I'm sharing with. We're currently set in an 8 people office. Two of our classmates are missing 20 points - two classes, and yet they get a 2 people office.
Nothing to do about it now, and if we complain we're just told that office space is not a right, but a privilege and others have just been assigned places in a study hall. I get that, I do - but it's just "unfair". Sharing a room with one person is a hell of a lot easier than sharing with 7. Was told last week that it will be, indeed, 7 more people.
The temp position was cut short after just two days and two classes. The teacher I was supposed to be temping for had her surgery canceled and would be back at work today. Was told I had made a really great first impression, though, since I showed up, was not given much information and did my thing. Hope this makes me "memorable" when it comes to other temp positions. I'm kinda bummed, but happy to...
Because now I can go to my ever first conference! It's called Human and It's Limits and will is arranged by people at the University of Bergen. So far there's not much information out there, but Ingvil (supervisor) gave me the program as has been handed out to the people presenting papers. I e-mailed the people listed in the call for papers, but have not heard back yet. Simply stated that I want to sign up, and that I'm a MA student from the University of Stavanger, referring to Ingvil. Hope to hear back - no program online yet, no indication of where on campus it'll take place, if it will take place on campus...! Bought airline tickets yesterday and am looking for a cheap-ish place to stay. I need a single room with my own bathroom and it would seem it will cost me $83 or so. Looking at this citybox hotel ("automatic" check-in/check-out, etc). Same price if I were to stay at a similar room in a hostel or similar accommodation.
Also, talked to Marianne, the editor of the journal I've become a part of, on Friday. She asked me Thursday if I would mind being appointed as theme editor for next issue (re-organizing how we're doing this). I said yes, so she wanted to meet up with me to discuss. We're also changing it around to have one editor-in-chief (her, for the time being, but she's moving back to Oslo after spring term), one theme editor for each issue, and three faculty editors, one secretary, one treasurer, all the normal stuff. Then she said that the next issue will be her last as editor-in-chief, and that the third issue, the last before summer she'll be working with the new editor-in-chief, easing the transition. Sounds good, if you ask me. And then, that the only person she sees fit for the position is me. Will I do it?
Wowza!
Sorta scared, but it's easier taking over than building from the ground up as she has done - in only two months! I said yes. Nothing official yet, and I'm not quite sure how one of the people (currently writing only, no official position) will take it. She didn't say it outright when it was announced that I was to be the theme editor for our second issue, but she asked if anyone has any study points from the religion studies at our uni, which none has, and then that she will be doing religion (first semester) after the holidays and wouldn't mind be given some responsibility.
Ehh...
Marianne just shrugged it off. This person is really eager to make a good impression, but they worked 3-4 hours on her text last week, trying to make her realize it's too long and all over the place. She won't hear anything of the sort.
Yeah. Guess that's it... For now :)
So, here's what's been going on. We find out that the office-thing is slightly... (and I hate this word) unfair. The guidelines that was posted on It's Learning back in August (and then removed) said offices would be distributed according to how many study points we have accumulated during our masters coursework. I have all 60 from last year. So has the two other students from my program I'm sharing with. We're currently set in an 8 people office. Two of our classmates are missing 20 points - two classes, and yet they get a 2 people office.
Nothing to do about it now, and if we complain we're just told that office space is not a right, but a privilege and others have just been assigned places in a study hall. I get that, I do - but it's just "unfair". Sharing a room with one person is a hell of a lot easier than sharing with 7. Was told last week that it will be, indeed, 7 more people.
The temp position was cut short after just two days and two classes. The teacher I was supposed to be temping for had her surgery canceled and would be back at work today. Was told I had made a really great first impression, though, since I showed up, was not given much information and did my thing. Hope this makes me "memorable" when it comes to other temp positions. I'm kinda bummed, but happy to...
Because now I can go to my ever first conference! It's called Human and It's Limits and will is arranged by people at the University of Bergen. So far there's not much information out there, but Ingvil (supervisor) gave me the program as has been handed out to the people presenting papers. I e-mailed the people listed in the call for papers, but have not heard back yet. Simply stated that I want to sign up, and that I'm a MA student from the University of Stavanger, referring to Ingvil. Hope to hear back - no program online yet, no indication of where on campus it'll take place, if it will take place on campus...! Bought airline tickets yesterday and am looking for a cheap-ish place to stay. I need a single room with my own bathroom and it would seem it will cost me $83 or so. Looking at this citybox hotel ("automatic" check-in/check-out, etc). Same price if I were to stay at a similar room in a hostel or similar accommodation.
Also, talked to Marianne, the editor of the journal I've become a part of, on Friday. She asked me Thursday if I would mind being appointed as theme editor for next issue (re-organizing how we're doing this). I said yes, so she wanted to meet up with me to discuss. We're also changing it around to have one editor-in-chief (her, for the time being, but she's moving back to Oslo after spring term), one theme editor for each issue, and three faculty editors, one secretary, one treasurer, all the normal stuff. Then she said that the next issue will be her last as editor-in-chief, and that the third issue, the last before summer she'll be working with the new editor-in-chief, easing the transition. Sounds good, if you ask me. And then, that the only person she sees fit for the position is me. Will I do it?
Wowza!
Sorta scared, but it's easier taking over than building from the ground up as she has done - in only two months! I said yes. Nothing official yet, and I'm not quite sure how one of the people (currently writing only, no official position) will take it. She didn't say it outright when it was announced that I was to be the theme editor for our second issue, but she asked if anyone has any study points from the religion studies at our uni, which none has, and then that she will be doing religion (first semester) after the holidays and wouldn't mind be given some responsibility.
Ehh...
Marianne just shrugged it off. This person is really eager to make a good impression, but they worked 3-4 hours on her text last week, trying to make her realize it's too long and all over the place. She won't hear anything of the sort.
Yeah. Guess that's it... For now :)