Yep, it’s that time again. I really think that December finals are way worse than May finals due to all the holiday/family/travel bullshit that happens simultaneously. Inspired by some fluffy bullshit ‘things to love about December’ list, I present to you: Things About December That Make Me Want to Skullfyck Santa – That overcaffeinated, jittery [...]
Summary of the past year: Hm, this place isn’t at all what I thought it would be… I love teaching, whee! Man, I don’t get along with any of the people here. They really won’t let me work on the type of music I’m into… If it weren’t for teaching, I’d go crazy! I hate [...]
Of all the things that I anticipated would leave me paralyzed and motivationless at the end of the semester, the one I didn’t see coming ended up doing me in. Allergies. I hate them so hard. I’ve had them my whole life, year-round, every year, without fail. Before coming to this university, I lived in [...]
Is there anyone academically-affiliated that doesn’t hate this time of year? I see both students and professors shuffling around campus in a burned-out daze, and I’m right there with them. Everyone is stumbling around with armfuls of books, looking despondent and exhausted, hardly noticing the beautiful weather that’s finally graced us with its presence. Even [...]
Some very hard-working people have inspired me to stop feeling sorry for myself and just get to work. When I talk to my grad student friends I know from other departments, they sound like I did in undergrad. They talk about how swamped with work they are, how much effort they’re putting in, but in [...]
I took this weekend to do some reading for pleasure, rather than seeing just how close I could get a match to the pages of Bakhtin’s “The Dialogic Imagination” without setting the pages on fire. I always forget how much my favorite pastime relaxes me (the reading, not the fire). It’s like a ‘reset’ button [...]
((Continued from previous entry)) After re-reading the e-mail in which my independent study bid was rejected, I’ve realized some things. What irritates me most is that he rejected my independent study request because he thinks I need to do more writing. He said: “There’s a serious writing component to the program, & for most people [...]
There’s a lot going on right now, and I don’t really know how to start writing about it all. I guess we’ll start with some basic facts. Fact One: My plea for an independent study got rejected.Fact Two: My health, both physical and mental, has seriously declined over the month of March.Fact Three: I’m going [...]
My professor and advisor from my undergrad university knew me way too well. Though I tried to play it off as a common trait of serious students, he saw through me and announced it to the class: “Registration is Megan’s favorite time of the year. It’s like Christmas!” Okay, so it used to be true. [...]
I spent my morning being terribly academic, sipping a chai latte in a localorganicfairtrade coffee shop, listening to Depeche Mode, and furiously highlighting and annotating my hundreds of pages of reading. Then I went to the basketball arena to watch the inauguration with thousands of other people. Then I came home and dropped a class. [...]
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