In fact, I'm going to spend my next year at Berkeley doing classes. I'm already doing a summer session class now just to keep my Latin up, but the big leagues start in another month or so. I think I probably work a bit better up here, but that doesn't mean I won't be down south again someday, I hope. :)
Hey! Long time no see:)aluvrianneAugust 17 2005, 00:49:13 UTC
I just trailed over here from the USC community after reading a couple of your comments. I didn't know you had an lj. The tech challenged side of me is still trying to figure out how to use this stuff; I'd add you to my friends list if I could remember/figure out how to do that. . . .
I'm so excited you got into such a great school! I'm on a roll with my MA here at UM, assuming I survive my fellow classmates:) The joys of public schools, eh? You're gonna knock their socks off back East. Good luck and Fight On!
This probably will sound really strange, but I saw a reply from you on the Classics department and thought "Hey! I recognize that username!" Since you're lj friends with Rachel (Miana_dude), I figured you must be the same person I am remembering from TFN and all of those strange, strange chatroom sessions. Anyway, I thought I'd say hello since I'm now doubling for my BA in English and Classics and I go to school right down the street from you at Villanova.
I did my undergraduate studies in medieval history and creative writing (with a minor in music--I jokingly called it 'bardic studies'). I had one amazing professor who was a mentor and advisor to me; she helped me through some really tough times earlier in my academic life, and also led my capstone seminar / undergrad thesis.
About midway through undergrad, I mentioned to her that I was thinking about going to grad school in history, with the goal of becoming a professor eventually. Over the next couple of years, we met and talked about it a few times.
In the end, she sat me down and pointed out that I had a good career already in tech (I worked full time while going to school full time through undergrad) and that I should pursue that, because graduate school is hell and there's little to no chance of a job in academia afterwards, and if I took six years off I'd lose my other career in the process.
Two years later, I think she was right. I'm still not planning to do tech work forever (ugh) but it's definitely good for now, and
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Re: story time!uscathenaApril 15 2008, 00:42:56 UTC
I guess my story would be the exact opposite. I hadn't even thought about grad school until my Latin teacher (who taught me Latin and then was my teacher again for a more advanced course) sat me down my Junior year and told me I should consider grad school.
I think the school itself was more at fault for me being miserable than perhaps anything else, because it wasn't a very good school (at least not for graduate studies). But I do realize now that grad school and academia is just not for everybody. It finally happened that I wasn't too keen on spending the rest of my life attempting to come up with some unified theory on why so-and-so poet wrote about such-and-such the way he did. I like having mental free-time, as it were. And solving things on my own terms.
Friends have often postulated that I should get into tech because I'm decent at fooling around with computers. But I think it would get on my nerves pretty quickly :p
This is a bit random, but I was wondering if it would be alright if I were to use your Ilia and Link screenshots for my up and coming website Diamond in the Rough? It has Ilia on it and when I saw them at the site Calm and Hope I thought they were really good :)
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I'm so excited you got into such a great school! I'm on a roll with my MA here at UM, assuming I survive my fellow classmates:) The joys of public schools, eh? You're gonna knock their socks off back East. Good luck and Fight On!
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Small world!
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Classics, clique, and Main Line ... a very small world indeed!
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-cow (who was talked out of a graduate degree in medieval history--but that's another story)
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The person who talked you out of it was a wise person indeed :p
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About midway through undergrad, I mentioned to her that I was thinking about going to grad school in history, with the goal of becoming a professor eventually. Over the next couple of years, we met and talked about it a few times.
In the end, she sat me down and pointed out that I had a good career already in tech (I worked full time while going to school full time through undergrad) and that I should pursue that, because graduate school is hell and there's little to no chance of a job in academia afterwards, and if I took six years off I'd lose my other career in the process.
Two years later, I think she was right. I'm still not planning to do tech work forever (ugh) but it's definitely good for now, and ( ... )
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I think the school itself was more at fault for me being miserable than perhaps anything else, because it wasn't a very good school (at least not for graduate studies). But I do realize now that grad school and academia is just not for everybody. It finally happened that I wasn't too keen on spending the rest of my life attempting to come up with some unified theory on why so-and-so poet wrote about such-and-such the way he did. I like having mental free-time, as it were. And solving things on my own terms.
Friends have often postulated that I should get into tech because I'm decent at fooling around with computers. But I think it would get on my nerves pretty quickly :p
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This is a bit random, but I was wondering if it would be alright if I were to use your Ilia and Link screenshots for my up and coming website Diamond in the Rough? It has Ilia on it and when I saw them at the site Calm and Hope I thought they were really good :)
Oh and I will credit of course.
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