Comments | skunkmunkie: 3 Years Later

skunkmunkie

3 Years Later

Mar 22, 2010 20:48

I'm reading it again, the paper that took over my life for a year. That paper, which taught me words I had never known, and why I should care about quantum theory, and why the heck it's important to keep every single source that you will ever run across. The master's thesis. I haven't touched it in three years, and I thought it relegated to ( Read more... )

Comments 4

quietbluster March 23 2010, 20:24:01 UTC

I know the feeling all too well. I entered grad school looking for collegial discussion and the mythical intellectual grad school experience; I allowed myself to be distracted and removed from that reality. Now I'm away from campus and away from the academic environment, good or bad, and when I try to right or think about posting on here or at another location I shudder at the utter lack of contact and futility of the exercise.

I hope that everything is going well for you, wherever you are. The dissertation is mentally killing me; at this point, I doubt that it will ever get done.

skunkmunkie March 23 2010, 20:52:42 UTC

Perhaps if you took the screenplay to Star Wars, put a new title page on it that says "Reinterpreting Agrarian Reform: Reconstruction through World War I, with New Sections on the Rebel Alliance," they'd pass you through!

"I don't know...this Darth Vader guy...seems like he doesn't like rural unrest."

quietbluster March 23 2010, 22:15:57 UTC

Actually, Vader would be a great stand in for the USDA and corporate agriculture.

tesser83 March 26 2010, 03:33:34 UTC

I still read everyone's postings on here, but my own are in absentia as of late. Basically, the only things I focus on anymore are writing lecture notes for my class, filling out job applications, and working at a job I utterly hate. In between all these things, I really don't have any spare time to myself to even really relax or read for fun, besides my recent belly dancing ventures. So, I figure if I write anything anyway, since I feel so unsettled and not quite like a whole person, all my blogging is just going to come off as me whining how much I hate my job, and I already do this on Facebook enough. =P It's nice to know that other people have lives though!