So, I am spending the last two days of my summer vacation sitting on my couch battling some mysterious illness that struck me sometime during the night. At the end of these two days, I will be starting my second year of graduate school and hopefully by spring I'll be receiving my MA in sociology. Since our society is increasingly moving more and more towards credentialism, it'll be nice to get some letters after my name. From there, I will have to make some big decisions about my future in the program. At the beginning, I was intent on just sticking it out until my PhD, however, I am not sure I can take five more years and the prospect of not starting a career until my late 20s is a bit daunting. I am hoping that the experiences of this year will help me determine whether to stick it out or to leave after my exams and write my dissertation on my own.
I am hoping to use this blog as an attempt to chronicle the ridiculous experience of grad school and TAing/teaching at a large university. I imagine it will eventually turn into a less funny version of PhD Comics that is still painfully true. (If you are considering grad school or are a current grad student and have not read PhD comics, I would highly recommend it. I've taken to just sending people links to the site when they ask me how my studies are going. Most of the situations that produce the humor are actually a fairly accurate depiction of the grad school experience.) I also want to use this blog as a public journal to document some of the funny, exciting, interesting, and funny things occurring in my life. I've been working to let my guard down and try new experiences lately, and so I think it might be a good self-reflective exercise to look at the consequences of those experiences, and hopefully it might give someone a laugh.
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