Winter
Haven't updated in awhile, mostly because not much exciting has happened: "Classes are going okay, I'm glad for coffee, distracting video games/TV shows, and the few friends I get to see..."
I'm feeling confident about grad school, despite the fact I haven't exactly been prompt with deadlines. I'm a bit confident because I'm a pretty good candidate-- I've essentially been a whore for coursework and experience, giving me enough to have a real conversation with every potential advisor-type I've talked with. Nothing's better for the ego than unofficial advice about money! In addition to William & Mary, West Florida, and Illinois, which are done, I need to get stuff ready for UMass Boston and possibly Southern Illinois.
I got plenty out of this semester, not only good (great? we'll see) grades, but fun and enlightening work with ethnographies, museum education, and statistics, as well as teaching. In TAing two classes, I learned how a fun prof grades and lectures, and despite hiccups, it was fun. How can you not like a prof that tells the departmental assistant "If another person from Senior Sem comes to look for me, tell them I died" and starts to walk away before finishing with "If they cry, tell them I'm in the Java Joint."
Winter in Beloit sucks, but now I'm in Mobile, AL, where it froze for a night already and maybe will again this winter. Take that, Yanks! I might work, or maybe get that museum internship, but in the meantime I'm doing what I and most do best-- reading, eating, and sleeping.
I'm feeling confident about grad school, despite the fact I haven't exactly been prompt with deadlines. I'm a bit confident because I'm a pretty good candidate-- I've essentially been a whore for coursework and experience, giving me enough to have a real conversation with every potential advisor-type I've talked with. Nothing's better for the ego than unofficial advice about money! In addition to William & Mary, West Florida, and Illinois, which are done, I need to get stuff ready for UMass Boston and possibly Southern Illinois.
I got plenty out of this semester, not only good (great? we'll see) grades, but fun and enlightening work with ethnographies, museum education, and statistics, as well as teaching. In TAing two classes, I learned how a fun prof grades and lectures, and despite hiccups, it was fun. How can you not like a prof that tells the departmental assistant "If another person from Senior Sem comes to look for me, tell them I died" and starts to walk away before finishing with "If they cry, tell them I'm in the Java Joint."
Winter in Beloit sucks, but now I'm in Mobile, AL, where it froze for a night already and maybe will again this winter. Take that, Yanks! I might work, or maybe get that museum internship, but in the meantime I'm doing what I and most do best-- reading, eating, and sleeping.