I am trying and failing miserably to finish grading papers.
Maybe the gym will help…
Lavender Blues
I am a graduate student who runs, writes, and draws stuff in what what spare time I have.
I really like Edna St. Vincent Millay, Deleuze & Guattari, and Superjail. My childhood largely consisted of Sailor Moon and Harry Potter (Pottermore says I'm a Slytherin).
Check out a project of mine under the We Four Elements tag or at we-four-elements here on Tumblr.
I really like Edna St. Vincent Millay, Deleuze & Guattari, and Superjail. My childhood largely consisted of Sailor Moon and Harry Potter (Pottermore says I'm a Slytherin).
Check out a project of mine under the We Four Elements tag or at we-four-elements here on Tumblr.
Just flip that to “Must grade 22 essays tonight; they’re all shite” and “You have to because it’s your job because you’re an adult now.” Now you know what it’s like for your teacher. Bonus points: as a grad student, you get to experience both sides simultaneously!
#accurate
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grading is super gross don’t let anyone ever tell you otherwise
the bottom line here is that i love learning but i hate school because school drains everything good from you and replaces it with anxiety and depression and feelings of inadequacy in people that are incredible and talented and skilled
See, school I was fine with.
Graduate school, on the other hand…
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Going to the library. It closes at two.
I live close by. This is good.
God I’m exhausted.
I’m going to bed.
I’ll get three hours’ sleep. That’s good enough. I overslept from Friday into Saturday.
sums up my life.
Truth tea… served.
Process when working on drawing projects this semester for my whole class. Yep.
Oh yeah. Six-page paper in four hours? Yes, sometimes.
(This is after scattered research/planning, but still)
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Grading papers! YEAH!
Notre Dame University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies. Fluency is required in at least seven of the following: Middle High German, Old Dutch, Old Norse, Middle Welsh, Cornish, Galician, Catalan, Occitan, Provençal, Anglo-Saxon, Old French, Frisian, and Gothick. Secondary specialties in Jutish or Pictish love poetry and steampunk fiction highly desirable. Teaching duties will be 4/4, seven of which are Beginning Latin for theology students.
These are brilliant (and why I’m leaving academia)…
OK I am leaving the grad office now
My caffeine:food ration is too high
my fingers are finging
I finished grading the first class’s drafts
I am twitchy
I need to buy groceries because I think my shitty mood is due to anemia again or just not having apples BECAUSE EVERYONE NEEDS FRESH FRUIT AND I CAN STILL AFFORD IT GODDAMMIT
Then I will go home
and eat grilled cheese with a pickle.
It will be awesome.
And I will grade more things.
And I will watch Superjail!
And I will go to the gym at an ungodly hour (and then shower).
And then somehow lesson plan? (because that’s a verb?)
And teach at 8 a.m.
AND IT WILL ALL BE OKAY.
What they don’t tell you
grad school is actually eradicating my self doubt, but also is making my hair fall out in increasingly alarming amountsIs that grad school is stressful to every single aspect of your life: your work life, your friend life, your love life. It infects every aspect of your being and is a pressure cooker for insanity and self-doubt.
Ugh…I should be reading one of the literally two hundred-plus books or poems on the comps list right now, but after reading Long Day’s Journey Into Night and half of A Streetcar Called Desire Friday, then reading the rest of Streetcar, and all of Angels in America (Parts I and II) and all of Robinson Crusoe yesterday, and five chapters of Gulliver’s Travels today, I’m kind of burnt out.
Maybe I could start reading The Invisible Man tonight to get a break from the 1700s Oh who am I kidding; I’m not reading any more tonight
Accessible Archives
takes
forever
to load
articles.
I just
want
the page
that has the bit
about the British ambassador
being dismissed.
Seriously,
it should not be
this hard.
