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Jan. 19th, 2012 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardYeah, okay, I'm remembering why I actually do want to graduate -- I love Tulane (most of the time), I'm pretty fond of New Orleans (most of the time), but I can't be here without remembering, "I was (and sometimes am) completely miserable here," and the whole campus is tainted by that for me. Even my apartment is. I forget this when I'm home, and then I get back here and end up going, "Yeah, no." (Because, you know, it's not like I haven't thought about moving to New Orleans, but...no. I don't think I could do it. And fortunately I don't have to!) (Uh, disclaimer: I do love New Orleans, I have friends who moved down here and fell in love with New Orleans, but it just didn't click for me that way. It could have, but it didn't.)
In other news: what the hell was I thinking when I chose these classes, omg, I am going to die. (Two seminars, two languages, and a lecture with public service attached, which at least looks like I won't have to deal with kids and may be able to do administrative work at a cause that I actually care about.) I already have homework and a quiz tomorrow. I also have to send many e-mails to sort out the honors thesis and capstone thing, but...I hate sending e-mails.
I also need to answer comments, so that will happen...sometime. Probably today.
OH OH OH. You remember how I may have been freaking out last month about a surprise C in Greek? Yeah, that was a mistake. It was supposed to be an A-. (Not as bad as the girl who got accidentally failed! YEAH.)
In other news: what the hell was I thinking when I chose these classes, omg, I am going to die. (Two seminars, two languages, and a lecture with public service attached, which at least looks like I won't have to deal with kids and may be able to do administrative work at a cause that I actually care about.) I already have homework and a quiz tomorrow. I also have to send many e-mails to sort out the honors thesis and capstone thing, but...I hate sending e-mails.
I also need to answer comments, so that will happen...sometime. Probably today.
OH OH OH. You remember how I may have been freaking out last month about a surprise C in Greek? Yeah, that was a mistake. It was supposed to be an A-. (Not as bad as the girl who got accidentally failed! YEAH.)
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Date: 2012-01-19 05:59 pm (UTC)Boo for having to spend all of winter vacation upset about the C.
(Not as bad as the girl who got accidentally failed! YEAH.)
That has happened to Aliyah before. It is terrible.
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Date: 2012-01-19 10:58 pm (UTC)Oh, yeah. The girl who got failed uses her middle name instead of her first name, and I guess the prof saw the unfamiliar first name and assumed it was someone who never showed up.
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Date: 2012-01-21 02:46 am (UTC)Also I totally get why about the New Orleans-misery thing.
It does look like you love the place (from reading Dust...) but at the same time you seem so miserable at times. And sometimes people just don't LIKE the place even though they'd had a good enough time there.
So you're hoping to do grad or post-bacc school elsewhere right?
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Date: 2012-01-22 04:36 am (UTC)Yeah, I have no intention of staying at Tulane for grad. I'm considering Louisiana State University for library school (I know someone there), but that's not in New Orleans.
To be fair, most of the Cair Paravel scenes in Dust were written before I fell out of love with New Orleans. It only got really bad in the past year or so, and I haven't written much Cair Paravel since then. (Which...might explain it.)
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Date: 2012-01-22 04:38 am (UTC)Yeah it's not a good thing to stay on in the same university for graduate school, in general. Says you don't have the breadth and width of experience etc etc.
Aww... that's true, in Dust everything seems to have taken place outside of Cair Paravel.
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Date: 2012-01-22 05:07 am (UTC)*nods* I thought about staying at Tulane -- we've got something called 4+1, where you start doing your master's work in your final year of undergraduate and thus get the MA with only a single extra year -- but it didn't seem like the best idea at the time. (And I know someone who's classics 4+1, and he's basically going through hell right now. Although I also know someone sho's English 4+1, and she's got it easy. Differences in programs!)
There's quite a lot that takes place in Cair Paravel -- the last third or so of Dust I, and a fairly significant subplot in Dust II. Cair Paravel's far from my least favorite setting. (My least favorite setting is the one that I'm writing right now, sigh. I probably shouldn't be saying I've got a least favorite setting, whoops.)
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Date: 2012-01-22 05:12 am (UTC)*fails at English*
the 4+1 seems to be common in UK too though, though it's more of a 3+1. My sister and brother who have been/are in UK universities will finish with a masters. In NZ I finished with a Bachelors after 3 years, an honours with 1 more year (which is supposed to be actually, equivalent to a masters) but I did another masters anyway.
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Date: 2012-01-23 04:26 am (UTC)I think it's not very common in the U.S, since it was definitely a point of attraction when I was looking at Tulane, although I ultimately decided against it.