Well, it's been about thirteen million years since I've posted on this thing and a lot has happened ( Read more... )

My semester is finally over and all grades are in, which is awesome. I really overestimated my capacity for taking classes and teaching at the same time. I made it through and took some freaking awesome classes at Penn and Princeton and they'll be really helpful next year while I'm writing my orals ( Read more... )

Hey guys, yes I am still around, but extremely busy about 97% of the time ( Read more... )

Hey guys. Believe it or not, I'm still hanging out on LJ pretty frequently. I read every entry. But I've had the busiest summer ever. Really ( Read more... )

So it's that sweet spot after the first year where you've finished your comp exams but before I get started on my busy summer plans. I've gone to amusement parks, bbqs, movies, and spent a lot of time sleeping ( Read more... )

So school is absolutely insane right now, and I can't believe I've almost finished my first year of grad school. I have three papers left to write and then comps at the end of the month. I feel like I'm in pretty good shape, but it's overwhelming and I just caught the crud that's been going around. All I want to do is sleep, but instead I have ( Read more... )

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I had great holidays. A lot of time with family, a lot of time sleeping and a lot of time not thinking about school at all. So yeah, finished my first semester of grad school. It was sort of painful in a two week burst of insane work towards the end of the semester, but somehow everything turned out alright, even in the classes in which I felt ( Read more... )

I have finished my first semester of graduate school. I literally cannot believe it. Of course, I have no idea where I stand gradewise, but I'm strangely copacetic about that situation. All the feedback I've been given so far has been positive. I do feel I need to work a lot on my paper writing, but I'll get there. I'm getting tons of practice ( Read more... )

So it's been a long time since I've posted anything. I really didn't mean to do that, but life has been sort of crazy. I think grad school tends to swallow the rest of your life and you end up doing things like watching season two of Parks and Recreation in a continuous loop when not reading a million books and trying not to sound stupid in class ( Read more... )