How do people have the time to blog? I guess like everything you just have to make time for it. After all, I have these conversations in my head and so might as well write it down.
So it's crunch time for the lowly grad student, who should have prepped a decent proposal in the summer while working away at the thesis. Eugh. We are constantly playing catchup. FML indeed.
I am now "in the game" of grad school, looking up programs, chatting up profs, trying to decide where to spend the next few years of my life. Would really love to be somewhere warmer and winterbird it down south. After 23 years in Winnipeg and nearly 2 between Ottawa/Montreal I think that's enough for me. Snowed in Winnipeg today. Oi vey. My poor mother. I am feeling kind of homesick this holiday season. Can't wait to come home for Christmas after doing crazy research in Copenhagen. Pretty sure the first few days back in Winnipeg will be comatose. Princess Aurora in the Prairies.
Had great chat with doctoral candidate in a potential program the other day. She was super enthusiastic and made me feel really good about possibly switching to Information Studies from Communications. I even felt smarter talking to her. Isn't it funny how we start to pick up these strange academic personas and almost speak in academic tongues? It feels like not myself...and yet it is. Always gets more and more strange going home. Who do I have conversations with? My doggies?
As someone interested in everything and anything to do with technology and communication (and people!), I find myself increasingly interdisciplinary, jumping from Communications to Sociology to Technology Studies. Maybe I will find home in a school of information. We'll see.
Really nervous about applying to schools in the U.S. Some of these grad students in the Master's program seem more accomplished than I could ever be. Ah well, remember Maggie Magoo, ithinkican ithinkican....putt putt putt up and over the hill.
So it's crunch time for the lowly grad student, who should have prepped a decent proposal in the summer while working away at the thesis. Eugh. We are constantly playing catchup. FML indeed.
I am now "in the game" of grad school, looking up programs, chatting up profs, trying to decide where to spend the next few years of my life. Would really love to be somewhere warmer and winterbird it down south. After 23 years in Winnipeg and nearly 2 between Ottawa/Montreal I think that's enough for me. Snowed in Winnipeg today. Oi vey. My poor mother. I am feeling kind of homesick this holiday season. Can't wait to come home for Christmas after doing crazy research in Copenhagen. Pretty sure the first few days back in Winnipeg will be comatose. Princess Aurora in the Prairies.
Had great chat with doctoral candidate in a potential program the other day. She was super enthusiastic and made me feel really good about possibly switching to Information Studies from Communications. I even felt smarter talking to her. Isn't it funny how we start to pick up these strange academic personas and almost speak in academic tongues? It feels like not myself...and yet it is. Always gets more and more strange going home. Who do I have conversations with? My doggies?
As someone interested in everything and anything to do with technology and communication (and people!), I find myself increasingly interdisciplinary, jumping from Communications to Sociology to Technology Studies. Maybe I will find home in a school of information. We'll see.
Really nervous about applying to schools in the U.S. Some of these grad students in the Master's program seem more accomplished than I could ever be. Ah well, remember Maggie Magoo, ithinkican ithinkican....putt putt putt up and over the hill.
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