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so, i'm back at school. it's weird being back this year. i am in an apartment in my own room, not knowing some of my apartment mates too well, without my boyfriend here (semester in italy) and my ex-roommate hating me, for making her my ex-roommate. this semester will be my thinking semester. the prof i ta for has challenged me to write a senior thesis paper for sociology next year and to think about what i would write it about this year. that is a scary thing! but i am considering writing one because i can write it on whatever i want and it looks really good on a resume/for applying to grad school. from where i am in my brain right now, i would write it something on drug culture, i dont' really know what thouhg. i've been trying to understand the 60s and the acid movement and stuff. the electric kool-aid acid test was such an amazing book, i'm trying to learn more about the era. i've been reading some freud (who i now love) and i will be attempting some marx (the one i have is a little daunting) because i am told that they affected the thinking of that time period, but i've been noticing that freud (at least the two books i've read..which are of his later works) didn't really capture that era. with that, i also have my school books to read, so it will be a semester of reading. luckily, i have a room by myself (i call it a nook because it's cozy) and if i want to venture out to read, there is a huge window in our living room overlooking the pond and woods.
my semester won't be too hard. i have one class that i will really care about. it is taught by the professor that i ta for. it makes me nervous because i haven't had him since he asked me to ta, and then i didn't talk in class but wrote good papers. now, good papers will be expected of me and talking will also be expected. i'm not as nervous in the class though, as it is of people my age. and i am comfortable with the professor, enough to call him mean on the first day. i am glad that i have a professor that is there to mentor me and encourage me to take risks and work hard and think about things.
i figure, if i'm really unsure where life is taking me and not too thrilled with social work but not really caring what to do, i'll get my masters in stats. apparently, you get starting jobs at $80,000 a year or so. in all honesty, i'm secreting hoping that stats (which i'm taking this semester) will bring this amazing revelation in my life that makes me want to learn more about it and get my masters in that. because, in all honesty, sociology does not get you far beyond teaching and writing. and to be honest, i'm a boring writer, and i would be too scared to have big classes. i DO like sociology more than social work but maybe i will get a job doing macrostructural stuff so sociology will be more important.
over the summer, i sort of got closer to my brother. i think he is starting to respect me more, because insults he throws at me dont' affect me at all. i just make fun of him for making fun of me. also, it helped that i worked at the cafe that he frequented about once a day.
i like working at the library. i have been since i was a freshman. i'm thinking about seeing if there's a special project that i can do over the summer because i most likely will stay in mass and they pay me well. i think at the moment i may be the highest paid student there. and there will be another big salary upgrade next semester, as mass minimum wage goes up to $8.00. last january, when there was a salary bump of .65 or so, i managed to get a raise of 1.15. i doubt i will get that big of a raise again, but it's nice that the library has money to spend on me. a couple donated $60 million to gordon, but it doesn't get go though until they die. because of that, the sociology department has pretty much no money to pay its poor tas. that's ok, at least i will get a little bit.
those are my thoughts on coffee.
my semester won't be too hard. i have one class that i will really care about. it is taught by the professor that i ta for. it makes me nervous because i haven't had him since he asked me to ta, and then i didn't talk in class but wrote good papers. now, good papers will be expected of me and talking will also be expected. i'm not as nervous in the class though, as it is of people my age. and i am comfortable with the professor, enough to call him mean on the first day. i am glad that i have a professor that is there to mentor me and encourage me to take risks and work hard and think about things.
i figure, if i'm really unsure where life is taking me and not too thrilled with social work but not really caring what to do, i'll get my masters in stats. apparently, you get starting jobs at $80,000 a year or so. in all honesty, i'm secreting hoping that stats (which i'm taking this semester) will bring this amazing revelation in my life that makes me want to learn more about it and get my masters in that. because, in all honesty, sociology does not get you far beyond teaching and writing. and to be honest, i'm a boring writer, and i would be too scared to have big classes. i DO like sociology more than social work but maybe i will get a job doing macrostructural stuff so sociology will be more important.
over the summer, i sort of got closer to my brother. i think he is starting to respect me more, because insults he throws at me dont' affect me at all. i just make fun of him for making fun of me. also, it helped that i worked at the cafe that he frequented about once a day.
i like working at the library. i have been since i was a freshman. i'm thinking about seeing if there's a special project that i can do over the summer because i most likely will stay in mass and they pay me well. i think at the moment i may be the highest paid student there. and there will be another big salary upgrade next semester, as mass minimum wage goes up to $8.00. last january, when there was a salary bump of .65 or so, i managed to get a raise of 1.15. i doubt i will get that big of a raise again, but it's nice that the library has money to spend on me. a couple donated $60 million to gordon, but it doesn't get go though until they die. because of that, the sociology department has pretty much no money to pay its poor tas. that's ok, at least i will get a little bit.
those are my thoughts on coffee.