Have I ever mentioned that being a grad student is CRAZY?! I’m not talking about the taking a couple of night classes or online classes to get your Masters in fill-in-the-blank type of grad school. Not that it’s bad to get your Masters this way…. this week I approve of the night/online method more than ever. I am talking about full-time, ruin-your-life grad school. The kind of grad school where you can’t really work another job or clean your house or have friends. The type of grad school where they kill you with reading and writing assignments then tell you what a horrible writer you are at the end of the semester, even though they thought you were a good enough writer to accept you into their program in the first place. I am talking about the grad school where they accept straight-A students and then refuse to give them As anymore, even though they are working way harder at school than they ever have before in their life. I am talking about the kind of grad school where it takes at least five or six years to get your degree, while they tell you the whole time that you will never find a job after you graduate. That’s the kind of grad school I’m talking about. No wonder my own professor said this week to “NEVER go into academia.” Touché.
But I digress. This is turning into a bigger rant than my last post, and it wasn’t intended to be a rant. I love grad school. I am thankful to be in grad school. But grad school is hard, and the final weeks of the semester are incredibly overwhelming and intense. I happen to be in those hellish weeks right now. Let me sum it up briefly. In the next three and half weeks, I will:
1) Present an 8-10 page work in progress paper to my Rensaissance Sexuality class on Elizabeth I’s chastity as represented in The Faeire Queene
2) Give a work-in-progress visual presentation to my digital literacies class on my mommy blogs research
3) Finish and submit 20 page Renaissance paper on chastity by May 6th
4) Finish and submit 20 page mommy blog paper by May 10th
5) Grade TWO more rounds of my own student’s essays (aka 35 essays times two = grading 70 essays in the next three and half weeks!)
So this is the last time you might hear from me for awhile, but I promise that when mid-May rolls around I will be a consistent blogger once again. I will leave you with this picture of what my kitchen table looks like right now as well as a picture of my to-do list for the day, and ask for your sympathies during my absence! Farewell friends! Pray for me!!!
