... I rock at being a student. I guess this is my blog so I'm allowed to brag, right? I've gotten A's on my first two grad school papers. Hurrah for me
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Noah, I totally agree with you. What I meant was, "figure out what's most employable amongst the many fields I would be equally interested in entering." Like I said, I know what I want to study. I think I'd be equally happy attacking the problem from any of the different angles.
I mean if I just wanted to be employable, I probably would have stuck with physics, ha ha.
But if I do find that one of those angles is the most interesting to me, I would definitely stick with it. The problem is, they all sound great.
Is there a way to do it all? I mean, you know the problem you want to study. Is there a way to do (or design) a program which is part French degree, part post-colonial theory, part medieval studies, part cultural anthropology...? It kind of seems to me like your degree should be in the thing you want to be studying, not in whatever approach you can shoehorn into the problem you want to be studying.
I probably COULD design a program like that, but the thing is, I need to be employable. Schools look for potential professors who can teach some standard curriculum, so I need to decide which curriculum I want to prove I can teach.
I <3 North Africa. Can't say I know much about the history but who can argue with the FOOD? My God, heavenly.
Anyway, congrats on staying afloat! I hope academia remains a shining jeweled city to you and doesn't become the deepest layer of many burning hells as it seems to do for so many. I think it takes a very specific type of person to succeed in higher-level academia. Good luck, cadet!
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I mean if I just wanted to be employable, I probably would have stuck with physics, ha ha.
But if I do find that one of those angles is the most interesting to me, I would definitely stick with it. The problem is, they all sound great.
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Anyway, congrats on staying afloat! I hope academia remains a shining jeweled city to you and doesn't become the deepest layer of many burning hells as it seems to do for so many. I think it takes a very specific type of person to succeed in higher-level academia. Good luck, cadet!
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