Oh My God, I'm So Fucking Old, This is So Awkward

[readishmael]

One of the two Community Advisors for this floor of my residence hall just informed me that he and I are the only two people who will be living on this floor this year who were born in the 1980s, and we are among only four people who are or will be 21 or older.

I'm going to be surrounded by Freshman, and I'm just keeping my fingers crossed right now

Comments

[vegarin]

Hee, okay, so maybe I shouldn't be too amused by this, and yet. ::g::

who will be living on this floor this year who were born in the 1980s

But yes, bloody hell, that would scare the crap out of me.

Glad it's going pretty well, regardless of the early onset mid-life crisis possibility while living among those born in the 90's. :D

[readishmael]

No, you can be amused. I'd be amused if I wasn't so tired.

[vegarin]

Oh, man. :(

::quickly supplies milk and cookies and sleep::

[readishmael]

Thanks. I just need to make it to the weekend. Then I can spend Saturday sleeping and catching up on TV. And I won't be getting up quite so early, at least on a daily basis, once the semester starts. And I'm hoping my body will adjust to getting less sleep eventually, anyway. But right now, OMG, I've never wanted to go back to bed so badly in my life.

[hungryhippo11]

Great to hear that training is going well. I've always wondered if you have to take on a full subject load if you're lecturing/tutoring at the same time? If so that sounds like a pretty tough challenge, but a lot of the people I knew who took that path seemed to manage okay. I'm sure you'll manage just fine :)

About living with freshmen on campus, yikes! Hope you manage to find a permanant place away from uni so you don't have to deal with that kind of awkwardness.

It's weird dealing with clients in their early twenties at work...I keep having to pinch myself that I'm heading towards the dreaded thirties. Don't really feel like an adult yet :P

[readishmael]

It's not really a full subject load. I'm taking the standard 9 credits/three classes, but one of those classes is my prep/training for teaching, so it's only two real classes. But that's still a lot.

I don't feel like an adult yet, either, and being one of the youngest people in the Ph.D program and then very much the oldest person living in the residence hall gives me whiplash.

[hungryhippo11]

Wow, that does sound like a fairly lofty amount of work! When you get started teaching, will you be taking three classes on the side, or the two? Either way it is a lot, but at least with two subjects it'll give you a subject's worth of time to do those teaching duties.

Yeah, it's got to be a little weird being the odd one out age wise both in terms of your PhD peers and at the residence. How do you see yourself fitting in with each of those groups? I tend to get along with older people better than folks my own age, so dealing in academia wouldn't be so bad.

[readishmael]

The training/prep course I have to take both semesters this year, so this whole first year of teaching I'll only have to take 2 actual courses each semester. But next year I'm pretty sure I have to take 3.

I fit in fine with the other people in the Ph.D program because I'm good at what we all do and because they're just cool, welcoming people, but in the context of being a first year TA, some of the older folks in the program seem to kind of want to, like, adopt me. I don't interact as much with the younger folks, so most of the trouble there is just knowing myself that it's unusual for someone my age to still be in student housing.