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July 25, 2008 – 10:05 amI am probably the second worst blogger in the history of blogging.
Today is one month from the beginning of the fall semester when I officially begin as a graduate student. Here are some of my thoughts:
· I’m already having trouble taking myself seriously. It feels like I’m just going back for another semester, only taking harder classes and getting paid to do it.
· Holy crap, I’ve never actually written a paper longer than 22 pages, and those 20 page papers I wrote were largely BS. I don’t know if I’m capable of writing at the graduate level.
· Grad school politics. I’ve heard the horror stories of sitting in your first graduate seminar and having a professor loathe you for no other reason than that he or she disagrees with you. In short, as a graduate student, I’m treated like a colleague, and will be subjected to the ideological and sometimes personal torment involved in academia. Yay!
Good Lord…what am I getting myself in to?