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

yeah i think you can get away with them in any professional school (like are MBA's smart enough to write essays lol jk). we have had legendary ones such as 150 mc questions, 2 points off for wrong answer, +1 for right answer, 0 for blank. i actually love those exams as much as it's possible to love an exam but people tend to leave them in tears ;_;

mbas are the most disgusting savages in the world imo, etc.

rly i'm just jealous i didn't go for a recognized major.

can I just

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My brain is scrambled, my anxiety is through the roof every minute of every day, I have dreams about my thesis almost every night, and my personal life is falling apart.

what the fuck did i get into with this grad school stuff FUCK

Fuck, I mean I didn't even remember that I already posted this months ago

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lol sucks to be you

j/k good luck :)

month of hell begins now

i turned in my heavily revised thesis on tuesday. my adviser is out of town for a funeral of someone v v close to her (she was so distraught she didn't even stick around for our class that evening), and was to read our theses on the plane and then call us. i understand that she is going through a difficult time but i have not heard a peep from her since tuesday and if she decides to go all crazy on me again, i need this time to be 'fixing' shit! argh@)#(**

good luck, students.

aw, you guys. you should maybe take a day off if you can.

what i mean to say is, even if it seems like you can't, you probably can and should.

i think the problem at this point is that i am taking days off when i'm supposed to be working because adviser's personal life is interfering with our production schedule, as it were. tbh i think this is unfair bc i had a whole mess of personal things to deal with while i wrote/edited but did not let it make me miss deadlines or anything.

Unequal power relationships are often unfair to the person with less power.

yeah, it's pretty much the most frustrating thing about grad school. they run your life but ignore you at will. i'm sorry, tehresa!

i know, i mean the whole thing is basically like an ego-booster for adviser/way to suck up to the department at this point. i just want it over.

i am so bored of school right now, and then i feel guilty for feeling bored

i'm done this fall. . . i can't fucking wait, i have had it

i'm done in december, looking forward to it but kind of frightened

ha, i start this fall (library science). totally excited about the classes but i already know that the homework is gonna get old and be a total drag like 2 weeks in.

i've just never really been a person who's been excited about being in school, even though i usually do pretty well. from the beginning, this has been about getting a new career, not "going back to school," so it's hard for me to stay excited about stuff that seems barely related to the practical side of librarianship

doing ok for now but expect a GOD AGH FUCK EVERYTHING post from me in ca. 2 weeks

― i want an internet that has fun arts and crafts to do at home (donna rouge), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:54 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

GOD AGH FUCK EVERYTHING LOSING MY MINDDDDDDDDDDDDD

(man, right on time)

mark you're doing library science??? where are you doing it?

xp yea i agree - what i'm most excited about is the increase in earning potential after the degree

destroyer - simmons

i just got that degree and i can't get a fuckin job

haha no way, i am doing my mls there part time right now. i will be 1/4 done on may 7.

lol @ donna rouge.

I finally cleared up time to devote two days purely to thesis writing. So while I'm in the middle of a 11 hour stretch of writing right now, it feels reeeaally good to be able to dedicate myself to it and not have to stop and do HW.

xp cool! we should get in touch in the fall and get some beers!

To clarify, "reeeaally good" as in the way it feels "reeeaally good" to pull out a splinter.

xp yeah dude definitely sounds like a plan. let's mutually try to remember that we had this plan!

will revive beer thread inevitably (or else this one if school's rough) in the fall

i just got that degree and i can't get a fuckin job

― I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:00 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

where do u live?

3.5 years left, yay

more if i tack on an mph/ms tho, yeeks

I get to play at being researcher this summer and have a good chance at getting a fully funded phd. come january. I may never leave.

I should be feeling more ARRGH about the end of semester looming but the major work to be done is the big group project and my team is the most incredible team I have ever worked with. Shit gets done, fast, well and ahead of time. We are chewing up the work and looking for extra credit, I love it.

I am trying to get excited about things like not having to commute or say the same things all day to the idiotic public next year, but I'm kinda worried I'll spend too much time on schoolwork and have no life.

Also it is not surprising to see more emerging ILX librarians ;)

xp yea i agree - what i'm most excited about is the increase in earning potential after the degree

this is such a false grail

earning potential - cost of getting degree = false grail, for real

btw my thesis update is: adviser liked most recent version and wants me to make some 'slight changes' to chapter 2 (where have i heard this before!!?!?!). i am too scared to actually take it out of the folder and see what she wrote on it (though she told me the first thing she wrote was 'yes! yes! yes!' so...).

xp yea i agree - what i'm most excited about is the increase in earning potential after the degree

this is such a false grail

not really false in the long term. you're pretty limited in the field (both in pay and career options) if you want to be a librarian but don't have an MLS. please correct me if i'm wrong (no condescension meant here) but are there library assistants who make more than librarians? even subtracting the cost of a degree, i'm pretty sure that it's worth it financially for me to get an MLS

yeah i think an MLS is still justifiable depending on how you do it and the degree really does translate into more $ in most library situations. i just kind of fucked it up, borrowed way more than i should have, nearly dropped out my second year, was pretty underachieving in general.

mark, i live with my parents in utah right now. i'm casting my net really wide though. i'll move anywhere if it's affordable. my problem is a relative lack of experience -- i've never actually worked in a library! i have two archiving / cataloging internships that i didn't get much from. so i'm only kind of viable as an archivist, which narrows it down a lot.

living in utah seems like such a mixed blessing

i was really referring to the idea in general, not your major specifically.

yeah in general you're totally right

ha, i start this fall (library science). totally excited about the classes but i already know that the homework is gonna get old and be a total drag like 2 weeks in.

― mark cl, Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:56 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

what i'm most excited about is the increase in earning potential after the degree

ha, i should qualify what i said earlier a little bit. i know this is a grad school commiseration thread and i know for a fact that i don't like homework, but all in all i'm definitely excited for grad school. there's so much cool stuff about the field that i've had little to no experience in that i'm pumped to learn more about.

earning potential and career enhancement etc., of course, but i am actually excited about spending a couple years learning more about the field as an end-in-itself

btw my thesis update is: adviser liked most recent version and wants me to make some 'slight changes' to chapter 2 (where have i heard this before!!?!?!)

lol tehresa, i had this experience more than once and took to not changing the work at all and just giving it to them over again. it tended to work.

i identify so much with being too scared to look at the comments. :-/

i tried that the first time (just made really tiny changes) and then she made me do massive revisions, which she seems happy with... except the 'slight changes'...

ayo adviser says i can give thesis to dean! 1 step closer!!!

so. every week we turn in homework to our instructor and to each other in class. then, for the following class, everyone grades each other's homework, & we go over the homework in the following class.

let's say we have to miss a class. what do we think of an instructor who WONT let us use email to send each other? instead we have to go to school to turn in a physical copy or give our homework to someone to turn in for us? i say it's insane.