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I def. sensed the psychoanal was part of the prof's spiel/background.

Second suggestion duly noted!

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

Whoa, shortening the word "psychoanalysis" that way...it's a bit open to misinterpretation when tired.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 8 April 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

Then my job is complete.

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Thursday, 8 April 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

Garn, I was just about set on Chicago yesterday and even was drafting an apology email to BG, but today I feel pained about the classes I'd miss there! I hate my indecisiveness.

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

There's no denying that they're both good schools -- there's no ravenous snake-dog hiding behind either of these doors, I don't think. So much of grad school can depend on what you bring in, how you decide to approach it, that really I don't think there's a wrong decision here. And if worse came to absolute worst, you could always transfer, and be out nothing but the price of moving.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link

That's very true. Go where you feel you'll grow most, where what you hold to be important is held as important, too. If you feel like you're going to be frustrated by the catching-up students at BG have to do, go to UC. If the theory-heavy-ness of UC is going to frustrate you, go to BG. I agree with Tep that neither of these choices is really bad. The question at this point might be whether or not you'd regret not going to one rather than the other.
(But that graphic novel workshop does sound really cool... If that's part of the curriculum, then maybe it's not so single-minded as you might fear.)

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago) link

<LI>I get to head my own section w/in a year, then get my own class

That sounds key to me if your goal is still to teach.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

I turned my thesis in today.

I still have two papers left, but I don't know when one of them is due. I'm ready to sleep for 20 hours.

― L (Leee), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

wow. congrats. go sleep now.

― mouse (mouse), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Yay sleep! Yay thesis and yay Leee! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:13 (eighteen years ago) link

woo!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link

oh hell yeah

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:26 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

So it's time for my semi-annual applying to higher education travails, this time for a PhD in funology (i.e. pop culture/tv). My prospective schools, in relative order of preference, descending: Duke, UCLA, Northwestern, Berkeley, Wisconsin-Madison.

But, getting an idea of the very finite financial resources for which I'd be competing with other students who, I'd assume, are smarter/more driven than I am, and perhaps for the first time, I'm very very scared. Then again, I've already committed $45 to the letter of recommendation service, so there's no point in throwing that money away! Still, if you can offer assurances, that'd be appreciated; I do think that grad school/academia is something that's right for me, despite the Fears I have.

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link

did you ever pay the winner of this thread?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Or should I forget about my obsession with narrative theory for more professional degrees, like public policy or Nutrition(!)?

xpost - shhh!

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link

here's where i'm applying (master's in urban planning/land use): cal poly san luis obispo, nyu, rutgers, u of wisconsin (milwaukee), u of michigan, ucla. cal poly slo is in the lead -- i've heard great things about their program, mostly that it's very hands-on (not just hippie-dippie theory) and their grads GET JOBS. the others are in no particular order.

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

what's a letter of recommendation service?

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I.e. a service that stores and sends out letters of rec. and sundry supplemental material for you so that everything looks official, which I was told looks quite a lot better than sending them out yourself.

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought you went to Chicago?

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 7 November 2005 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Please tell me they really call it "funology" and not something boring like "media culture sociology".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 7 November 2005 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Chicago was a 1 year program.

Alas, "funology" is my neologism.

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you feel like the MAPH was useful for you, Lee? I know someone who just started that program this fall.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 November 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Absolutely! It was like eating my vegebobbles -- I complained and whined and pulled faces for 8 months, but in the end, I wrote a smooth and shiny thesis, and I also think genuinely that it made me smarter/better read.

I highly recommended taking the Academic/Professional Writing course. Improved my writing tenfold, and possibly it taught me finally how to read non-fiction prose.

Not that you'd suspect any improvement from that last sentence.

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Should I forget it all, go back to undergrad to do something more analytic like math?

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Get a real job, hippie.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Math = analytic = REAL JOB.

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link

you could join one of the big math firms!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link

you could grade tests for ETS!

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link

You mean like Google?

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Duke: no
UCLA: no

I have the phear that I will have the dreaded giant-sized sombrero and go 0 for 7.

― c(''c) (Leee), Friday, 3 February 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

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