Comments | icara: and we shared a bed in which i could not sleep, at all, at all

icara

and we shared a bed in which i could not sleep, at all, at all

Oct 25, 2005 10:41

so i was walking to work and the stupid engineering kids were selling t-shirts that read, "Friends don't let friends become Liberal Arts majors."

semester winding down, and all the kids whose deadlines are approaching want me to edit their papers rightthisminute ohmygod! it's hard not to get stressed out when i'm meeting with one of them and ( Read more... )

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dreamweaver369 October 25 2005, 16:23:05 UTC

Aren't students fun?! I've got 45 of 90 midterms/papers graded and know how you feel. Best of luck.

icara October 27 2005, 14:35:13 UTC

yikes, good luck yourself! grad school is pretty beastly in general...

today i was helping this cute indian girl write an abstract for her thesis, and i got so flustered i forgot where the "highlight" tab was on Word. ::headdesk::

unagotitadenada October 25 2005, 17:23:36 UTC

don't worry, the engineering kids are just frightened, most likely because they thought they were going to get to take over the world with [gasp] their intellect, and they're only just now realizing we've had them all along with our penchant for three-dimensional thinking that functions in Real Life, and not just on a blueprint. watch them panic, bwahaha! ;-)

i say this while being entirely unemployed. but whatever. soulless bastards ;-)

good luck with your crazy students!

(i berate because i love... or do i?) icara October 27 2005, 14:52:29 UTC

what gets me about the Real Life thing is this:
i started as an engineering kid because i wasn't expecting i'd like academia, and i figured it was the one major that would translate into instant employment after four years.
from what i hear, this practicality seems to be the selling point for lots of engineering kids.
but why, then, would any of them fuck around with getting a masters or a doctorate, like the ones i work with? it's a little schizophrenic.

and soulless, of course, hahaha. there's a girl named jimena here who was asking me if i'd noticed how this field makes people elitist, cold and condescending. and of course it's her field, i mean talk about an honest appraisal.

i think, today, that you are leaving on a jet plane! good luck and bon voyage, dearie. have an awesome time in britain and barcelona (i'm so jealous!)

valdomero October 25 2005, 21:33:57 UTC

I was so sad that I couldn't talk to you last night!! I miss you like a mad woman, I've made up my mind, you're coming to live with me (at least over christmas break). Good luck with the engineers (maybe god is punishing you for when you wanted to be an engineer) ha ha he he and ho ho (or whatever)

i got the wanderin' blues... icara October 27 2005, 15:01:19 UTC

oy, allnighters suck so hard. have you caught up on your sleep yet?
i miss you, too! don't worry about kidnapping me, because i'm moving into your closet over christmas break. i'll have to remember to save some of my stipend for thai food and boston cover charges and ridiculous amounts of layered clothing.

and amen, maybe i won't have to spend as much time in purgatory... (heeheehee, like all of this could even make a dent in my penitential debt.)