(no subject)
Good
-The section I spend every Monday dreading/bemoaning was cancelled today because the GSI was sick, leaving me with no class
-I had a long talk with Sepideh that made me feel a lot better about some law school/future-related stuff. There's no point in summarizing the whole conversation, suffice to say it's comforting to know that somebody else has a lot of the same concerns as you do about getting in, making something of yourself, putting up with people, demonstrating that you want to use your degree to do good things without sounding corny, etc, etc, etc.
Bad
-I am all different kinds of low-grade sick.
-I am really hungry, but everything I eat makes me feel sick, so I have stopped eating until further notice.
Unrelated random thoughts
-I'm getting the draft of my thesis back from one of my advisors tomorrow. Oh me, oh my.
-Sometimes, okay, lots of the time, I hope that I can get a Ph.D. in Political Science someday. I'm ready to graduate and all that stuff, but I realize how much more there is to learn, and how much I want to learn it. So maybe after law school. I decided on law school rather than a Ph.D. program in part because I just want to learn about the law, but also because I'm far more interested in being a lawyer and actually working to change all the fucked-up shit I learn about than in being a professor (no, this is not me saying i think academia is a useless profession-I just don't think I would find it personally satisfying). But whenever I've talked to the GSIs I like in my department about what they're doing, it just all sounds so damn fascinating. I don't know.
-The section I spend every Monday dreading/bemoaning was cancelled today because the GSI was sick, leaving me with no class
-I had a long talk with Sepideh that made me feel a lot better about some law school/future-related stuff. There's no point in summarizing the whole conversation, suffice to say it's comforting to know that somebody else has a lot of the same concerns as you do about getting in, making something of yourself, putting up with people, demonstrating that you want to use your degree to do good things without sounding corny, etc, etc, etc.
Bad
-I am all different kinds of low-grade sick.
-I am really hungry, but everything I eat makes me feel sick, so I have stopped eating until further notice.
Unrelated random thoughts
-I'm getting the draft of my thesis back from one of my advisors tomorrow. Oh me, oh my.
-Sometimes, okay, lots of the time, I hope that I can get a Ph.D. in Political Science someday. I'm ready to graduate and all that stuff, but I realize how much more there is to learn, and how much I want to learn it. So maybe after law school. I decided on law school rather than a Ph.D. program in part because I just want to learn about the law, but also because I'm far more interested in being a lawyer and actually working to change all the fucked-up shit I learn about than in being a professor (no, this is not me saying i think academia is a useless profession-I just don't think I would find it personally satisfying). But whenever I've talked to the GSIs I like in my department about what they're doing, it just all sounds so damn fascinating. I don't know.