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I was sitting around icing my ankles (another story entirely, and one with a very good moral about vanity >_>) having finished my homework and figured I should update about what I've been doing in grad school so far.
It has been insane at moments, but for the most part bearable so far. I've been a little disappointed in my classes (except one that terrifies me--dumping information in me for roughly three hours once a week is not my favorite way to learn) because they have so far seemed very review-like so far. I think at least the in the neuro class things will pick up next week with information I do not already know. I hope. Otherwise I just should have clepped out of it and taken a second elective.
In any case, clinic is going pretty well. This is probably because I'm not really required to do anything by myself yet. I live with this vague sense of doom that rather than being the gradual handing over of responsibility it is supposed to be, about halfway through the term I'll wake up and find the entire responsibility dumped in my lap and me without the first clue of what to do about it. But! all I can do is take it one day at a time and Pay Attention because I seem to be having a real problem with that lately. D:
On the plus side, I have managed to secure the tiniest of tiny research positions in one of the labs here. I thought it was one of several unfortunate consequences for taking both speech-language pathology classes and linguistic classes simultaneously that I should have the International Phonetic Alphabet drilled into me on three and a half (the review of it in History of English doesn't really count) separate occasions (not to mention the very abbreviated introduction I received in high school), but clearly it has paid off. I know how to transcribe dangit!
It has been insane at moments, but for the most part bearable so far. I've been a little disappointed in my classes (except one that terrifies me--dumping information in me for roughly three hours once a week is not my favorite way to learn) because they have so far seemed very review-like so far. I think at least the in the neuro class things will pick up next week with information I do not already know. I hope. Otherwise I just should have clepped out of it and taken a second elective.
In any case, clinic is going pretty well. This is probably because I'm not really required to do anything by myself yet. I live with this vague sense of doom that rather than being the gradual handing over of responsibility it is supposed to be, about halfway through the term I'll wake up and find the entire responsibility dumped in my lap and me without the first clue of what to do about it. But! all I can do is take it one day at a time and Pay Attention because I seem to be having a real problem with that lately. D:
On the plus side, I have managed to secure the tiniest of tiny research positions in one of the labs here. I thought it was one of several unfortunate consequences for taking both speech-language pathology classes and linguistic classes simultaneously that I should have the International Phonetic Alphabet drilled into me on three and a half (the review of it in History of English doesn't really count) separate occasions (not to mention the very abbreviated introduction I received in high school), but clearly it has paid off. I know how to transcribe dangit!