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[jeweledhibiscus]

I didn't realize how overcast it had gotten. I didn't notice how late it had gotten. I thought I still had enough time. What was the result? GIANT SWARMS OF TINY BUGS OH GODS THEY'RE EVERYWHERE WRRRRRY UGH I THINK I SWALLOWED ONE EEEEWWWWWWW *flaaaaaaaaiiiiil

Comments

[cjthrills]

=/ It seems wrong that your program purposely schedules classes so that students can have real jobs. After classes and TA jobs you shouldn't be EXPECTED to also work. I'm not surprised that you're so stressed out by school all the time. Also, it sucks that you have to take that class again. Is this the last time, or will you have to take it again later too?

[jeweledhibiscus]

We're actually not even allowed to have jobs off campus if we have assistantships - but not everyone in the program does. A lot of people in it are teachers who teach in the local high schools or middle schools and then do class at night. The assistantships are mostly to cover the rest of us who don't have real jobs, but the stipend for working in the Writing Center isn't enough to live on. The stipend for a TA is, barely, but...

MFA program here requires four workshops in your genre, plus one in creative nonfiction, and another one in a genre of your choice. I'll probably be doing either nonfiction again or an extra poetry there, if I can't get into the fiction workshop for next semester (I emailed my adviser and asked him to change me over to the fiction one). Kay and John (the teacher I had last semester) are the only ones who teach the poetry workshop, but Kay is retiring after this semester and I've heard that John is going on sabbatical next spring, so I have no idea what's going to happen there.

[cjthrills]

That makes sense for the teachers. It sucks you can't get more funding though. So is your program all course based? Or are you also doing a thesis or project or something too?

[jeweledhibiscus]

Both really - there's a set of required courses, but a thesis is also required. For the MFA, we do a creative thesis (a book-length work of poetry, in my case) and then take competency exams as well. Sigh. The idea is that the courses will take up the first two, maybe two and a half years, and the final semester (maybe final two semesters) will be focused on the thesis and comps.

[kaleidochrome]

... that whole shit with your adviser just makes me pissed off. Like, all I would have had to do was see you in tears, and then I would have kicked in that mother fucker's door and gotten black on a nigga. Like grad school isn't stressful enough! It makes you feel like you don't have an option to pursue your education the way you want to, and FUCK YOU ADVISER I DIDN'T FUCKING ASK YOU TO MAKE POOR JUDGMENT CALLS ON MY FUCKING WORK ETHIC, I TOLD YOU I DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE YOUR STUPID CASH COW FUCKING COURSE, YOU FUCKING DOUCHE, I HOPE YOU DIE IN A FIRE-

*breathes*
No srsly, I'm angry. I don't want you being more stressed out than you already are and being pushed into something you DON'T WANT. This is your education. Not theirs. They can take their fucking suggestions and shove it. It reminds me of my other adviser that I had back in undergrad when I was still a Film and Video major. I told him I was going to China for the summer. He told me that I shouldn't do that and instead stay in Allendale and take some stupid ass summer

[jeweledhibiscus]

It's so sweet of you to be defensive on my behalf :D From China :D:D:D:D

I don't know if maybe I was just overreacting or what to him, but it was very upsetting. I'm hoping that talking to Kay on Wednesday will help me with this.

Hopefully my epic battle with the bugs is over. I'm just not going out after 6:00 anymore :P I have zero problems with ceding this battle; there are way more of them than me.

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU TOO HOORAY ONLY TWO MORE MONTHS~!!!

[sylphkeeper]

Fuck that advisor. Right in his stupid face.