what the fuck am i getting myself into with this grad school stuff

harbl do health law or something and feel out what yr interested in, then do mph

i don't wanna do health law though! more intersted in like, crimes and stuff, mental health, addiction. but yeah i'm gonna try and wait 2 years and save up some money. i'm not even 25 yet. i have time. *sigh*

harbl do health law or something and feel out what yr interested in, then do mph

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meal patrick harris?

miles per harbl

u guys are masters of comedy

still getting my comedy bachelors :(

ok don't do health law! do stuff w crime and addiction and stuff. which btw is v v interesting.

all things i have considered getting add'l degrees in:
ethnomusicology
straight up musicology (some ethno included)
mba
jd
accounting/finance
maybe another bachelors in computer things

but yeah, like harbl, i have to stop myself.

I am in Jew School and taking an ice skating class. Does this count as grad school y/n.

only the ice skating class imo

no it sounds like a much better plan than grad school!

Ice skating is awesome. I think I'll start a thread about it!

my grad school had a lot of jews so i'm gonna go with yes, it counts.

tza: uTexas has a good not profit management thing if that is your bag and Austin is Seattle without clouds or rain.

i don't need more nonprofit education, tho.

Austin is Seattle without clouds or rain

xtreme challops

btw, still sunny in seattle for all u hatas out there.

still a million degrees in austin for all you texas stans out there.

on another note, it's snowing in iceland today! (was there less than two months ago...and it's already winter?)

you know where Iceland is right?

friend in denver said it was snowing there, too!

what the fuck am i getting myself into with this snow stuff

i'm making an academic poster that is 90% cannibalized from papers i wrote over the last two semesters, and trying to work on a group project due a week from yesterday where no one from my group is communicating about how the hell we're going to do this thing

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fucking hate group projects

also this poster is only supposed to have about 300 words of text!?!? i've cut and cut and still am barely under 600 and that's without the bibliography. how am i supposed to say anything substantive in 300 words?

i've had really good luck with group projects til now, guess it was just my time for a shitty one

twitter it--ask WGW 4 tipz

sorry i am not being helpful

i watched the monks documentary last night and they were talking about how they kept reducing the numbers of words in their songs until there were hardly any words left. what i am saying to you is, have you tried shaving your head?

i do need a haircut

tza: uTexas has a good not profit management thing if that is your bag

Is this an MBA program? A friend of mine did non-profit management as part of an MBA program somewhere in Texas. Now she's decided she wants a phD in art history.

totally kicking myself for not doing the joint mfa/mba option (no one EVER does it, adds an extra year, i can't imagine adding all the mba work in only 1 extra year tbh, and i assumed i'd have a job when i left school since EVERY prior class was all employed by graduation (thanks a lot, economy!)).

http://www.andrewjchinnici.com/files/2007.03.01/thesisskull.gif

ha ha this fucking group presentation is going to be such a mess, i wish there was some way to get you all in on our online system so you could hear the redundant, ridiculous nonsense when 2/3 of a group refuses to make any concession to organization or timeliness

our 10-minute presentation has been going on for 40 minutes and isn't done yet

mostly due to technical issues

lol

the joys of doing an online distance education program

Best part of grad school: Having your papers accepted to farflung and exotic locales.

i hope i'm not being overoptimistic here but i think i see the light at the end of the tunnel. i've got a paper due next week but after that i don't have another paper due until nov. 30. so i've got almost a whole month with no other assignments where i can work on my last couple of papers at a reasonable pace. other than that, in the last couple of weeks i have to make a "portfolio" of previous work for one class and that's about it! which is good because i also need to getting my resume shined up and maybe make an online portfolio with my awesomest papers etc. (not sure if i'll actually need this but it'll be good practice at least)

ready to be done

this one final paper should be so easy - only 1,500 words (about 5 pages double-spaced) and WE ASSIGN OUR OWN FINAL GRADE. but it's fucking "self-reflection" about how we will "move forward" with what we learned this semester. gag, i'd rather write a research paper. it's taking me forever to write some bullshit about my self-development re: community engagement bleurgh

with those kind of self-reflection things that i can't draw from any kind of external material like i can with research papers, i usually try to just start writing whatever i can, w/o regard to how it flows or works as an actual paper that i'm gonna hand in. i can fix that stuff up later. i just write as if i'm talking to someone casually in a conversation, just to get ideas going and just to get words on the screen. those kinds of papers are usually the hardest to actually get going and write something, so i do whatever i can to make the ideas flow more freely. pretending i'm just talking casually to someone usually helps me produce some material, which i can edit later to make it sound more formally written. dunno know if any of this would you help tho.

that's what i've been doing, i'm just getting to the point where i'm running out of stuff to say and i've only got about half the words i need

is there a section or a part you've already written that you can pull out and extend the BS? like a part where you summarize and you can give an anecdote or something? (sorry i don't mean to call your paper BS, just trying to help.)

ha it's totally b.s.

i think i just need to get away from it for a little bit. it's not due for a couple of weeks, just trying to get it over with so i can concentrate on my more challenging finals

prelims... suck...

oh, time away from it, that's always a good idea.

Correct me if I'm wrong but all this paper really is is "how am I going to use what I learned in this class in a future situation"? Can't you, like, pick 3 or 4 major topics from the class and extrapolate a real-life scenario around them, or is it fluffier/fuzzier than that?

I mean, you mention community engagement; isn't this paper really just a pretext on the teacher's part to get you to make plans for how you're going to try to proceed with this outside of school with a side helping of sadistic "SEE MY CLASS IS SUPER IMPORTANT" tacked on?

Ooh I just signed up to do the GRE

Dec. 21

which is actually kind of the perfect day
but I just spent my grocery money signing up for it

oops?

the darkest day of the year! Also my birthday.