What I don't miss about graduate school...

[telophase]

Grading papers as a text adventure.

>look under lampshade
Which lampshade, the fake-satin lampshade of irrelevant biographical detail or the frilly velvet lampshade of waffle?

>look under frilly lampshade
You find a thesis statement clinging to the underside of the lampshade. It is very small and appears to be ashamed of itself.

Swiped from someone on the friendlist, but I forgot who because right after finding this a group of poeple trooped into the office I share and had a meeting, so I had to look busy and OMG DO ACTUAL WORK.

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[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha! I must show this to my English-prof coworker.

But now I have an intense craving to replay The Lurking Horror, where a term paper really does lead you to Hell.

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

This is funny to me because I'm at the other end and so can just flutter through essays in a pleasant haze of "I'll just put that there and this here and maybe add a sprinkling of commas for good measure... Done!", sure in the knowledge that my mistakes will only come back to haunt me at some future time that's not, however, right at this moment :)

I'm not that bad though. My punctuation may be a little shaky every now and then and sometimes things get a little side-tracked, but I'm very good at arguments and Concluding With Intent :D

[anninator.livejournal.com]

XD LAWL

[devikun.livejournal.com]

a lampshade of irrelevant biographical detail

O_O

Man, you can't force genius, ya know? To some, it just comes naturally.

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

Ugh, don't remind me! I have six classes worth of papers to grade and I'm giving final exams this week!

*Goes to bed early to avoid grading.*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I don't miss that about my two quarters as a TA.

There's a lot I don't miss about being a TA, actually.

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed being a TA, especially once I found a professor who treated his TA's to lunch once a week. Then, again, that's why I'm a college science instructor.

What did you study in graduate school? I can discern only the vague outlines of your academic interest from your profile--art, anthropology, English, and history all appear there.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee - you get my Full Academic History now. XD

Undergrad: B.A Anthropology.
First grad school: M.A. in Anthropology with a concentration in Museum Studies
Second grad school: M.L.I.S. (Master of Library and Information Science) with a certificate in Digital Image Management.

The time I was a TA was in the first grad school stint. I never lectured because the University of Denver was proud that the professors taught all their classes, but I graded papers and tests, and led discussion groups, and held office hours that students never came to. And it was there that I learned that my instincts were correct - I was not cut out to be a teacher. Which was why I'd gone into the museum studies program - it was a way to use the anthropology without having to teach. And then I ended up in library school after having a job in a slide library at a school of architecture. :D