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exaggeration17a

Snowglobe Snowball Effect

Jun 17, 2007 02:59

Hey, yet another update in what is usually a very inactive blog! Is it coming out of hibernation? Or is this like the "foreshock" of a larger earthquake, a sign of potentially disastrous logorrhea ahead? Only time will tell... for now, read on, and hold out hope ( Read more... )

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wisedanichi June 18 2007, 01:22:44 UTC

I strongly recommend against it!

Actually, it really depends on whether you can spend several (more) years studying whatever subject it is you get it in, and whether you can put up with the professors in that department as well. In my case, emphatic no on both counts! Curiously enough, I aced my social psych courses, and enjoyed them.

exaggeration17a June 18 2007, 15:02:05 UTC

Yeah, and I think you would have been fine if UMichigan had actually enrolled you in their psychology program. As a student with no real prior experience in communication studies, I think you did pretty damn well in a graduate program that you weren't truly prepared for.

The only way I'd be enrolling in a Ph.D. program is if the department on the whole has their heads on straight. In my case, for the Romance Languages or Latin American Studies, there had better not be anyone telling me that studying abroad will hold me back in the program, for starters. So far, UNC looks good but state law mandates them to require GRE scores before they can consider an application... maybe I'll take it, skip all the math questions and see if they're still willing to consider me.

catgirlpink June 18 2007, 19:30:45 UTC

Hm, how long will your move-in process be? This weekend is the Houlton event. >^_^< Since you're going to be somewhat north anyway..

But really, I like Houlton. The longhouse is beautiful, and the dinner in a giant iron cauldron over the longhouse firepit is just fun. >^_^< It was tasty last year, too. Tasty and fun is good. >^_^< Yay!

exaggeration17a June 18 2007, 21:45:31 UTC

We should be able to "stage" our large items to be loaded into our rented truck on Tuesday night, then load, move and unload on Wednesday. At that point the moving ends and the arranging begins, but there's no time crunch for this latter part.

However, we'll be attending a friend's wedding on Friday and driving the new couple to Logan Airport on Saturday, so we're already pretty much booked for this weekend. The next SCA event we're planning on going to is Great Northeastern War, and future events will depend largely on what my work schedule winds up looking like. I'll probably let people know when I find out when I'll have free time... hopefully I'll have Sundays off so I can at least go to EMCC for the occasional Endewearde fencing practice....