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Dec. 8th, 2018 02:46 pmThe longer I’m in academia, the more I’m aware of the whole “you never get a day off, you don’t get a real weekend, it’s almost impossible to separate being ‘off’ and being ‘on’” thing. And I do have a more-or-less hard stop time in the evenings (this time of the term it gets more flexible than I would like), but damn, I just really wish I could have two days a week to turn my school brain off.
Every semester I say that I’m going to finally prioritize actually having a break every week and push my stop time up to a more reasonable hour (it’s currently 10 pm, which I pushed up from midnight last year with some serious effort), but between how overwhelmed I’ve been this semester (essentially five classes, which is really not tenable on a graduate level) and the way I work it just was not possible.
Next semester, I hope. I’ve only got two classes (and one’s a directed reading) and a giant paper, down from five classes and screaming (three actual classes, my Intro to College Teaching workshop + portfolio, and the class I’m TAing), so in any sane universe that will be much easier to handle. But also, just, damn. This has not been a great semester, and it’s about to go even worse since I now have to write the final papers I kept putting off because I didn’t have the time or energy to deal with them due to the regular amount of work I had to do on a weekly basis.
Every semester I say that I’m going to finally prioritize actually having a break every week and push my stop time up to a more reasonable hour (it’s currently 10 pm, which I pushed up from midnight last year with some serious effort), but between how overwhelmed I’ve been this semester (essentially five classes, which is really not tenable on a graduate level) and the way I work it just was not possible.
Next semester, I hope. I’ve only got two classes (and one’s a directed reading) and a giant paper, down from five classes and screaming (three actual classes, my Intro to College Teaching workshop + portfolio, and the class I’m TAing), so in any sane universe that will be much easier to handle. But also, just, damn. This has not been a great semester, and it’s about to go even worse since I now have to write the final papers I kept putting off because I didn’t have the time or energy to deal with them due to the regular amount of work I had to do on a weekly basis.