Graduate school, how do I love thee ...
Oct. 18th, 2002 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
d_aulnoyNo, seriously. What made me into such a masochist that I seriously decided to devote a sizable chunk of my time to life (*snort*), liberty (so long as it's not intellectual) and the pursuit of tenure? Don't get me wrong ... I love academia. I still get giddy when I think about the fact that my perusal of fairy tales is approved of by the Powers That Be. So why won't they let me get on with it?
I think that my MA experience spoiled me, in a lot of ways. It was an intensive one year program at a tiny school, where they *really* expected students to get down to business ASAP, and were willing to provide the resources - the time, the funding, the advisors - to let them get on with it. This time last year, I was happily enmeshed in my topic.
Here, the timeframe is longer, and the program is bigger ... so, they're both okay with people putzing around with their coursework for ungodly amounts of time, and, in fact, encouraging of it, as it keeps them from having to provide some hundred odd students (very odd - just look at yours truly) with all of the stuff that they'd need to work. I MISS MY OFFICE, DAMMNIT!
Part of the problem is that I've still been running on IPT (Intensive Program Time), and exhausting myself as the result ... I need to slow down .... I have five years to do my dissertation. I should just think of the next year or so of coursework as a kind of vacation, and let myself relax a bit.
Yeah, right.
I think that my MA experience spoiled me, in a lot of ways. It was an intensive one year program at a tiny school, where they *really* expected students to get down to business ASAP, and were willing to provide the resources - the time, the funding, the advisors - to let them get on with it. This time last year, I was happily enmeshed in my topic.
Here, the timeframe is longer, and the program is bigger ... so, they're both okay with people putzing around with their coursework for ungodly amounts of time, and, in fact, encouraging of it, as it keeps them from having to provide some hundred odd students (very odd - just look at yours truly) with all of the stuff that they'd need to work. I MISS MY OFFICE, DAMMNIT!
Part of the problem is that I've still been running on IPT (Intensive Program Time), and exhausting myself as the result ... I need to slow down .... I have five years to do my dissertation. I should just think of the next year or so of coursework as a kind of vacation, and let myself relax a bit.
Yeah, right.