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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[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