Posts filed under 'Rants'
I spent a chunk of my summer transcribing interviews between poets. It’s not for my own work, though there is some transcribing I need to do for the third chapter of my dissertation, and probably also for the fourth. I signed a confidentiality agreement for this job, so I’m not going to get into the […]
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September 9th, 2010
Today, my doctoral program’s student association sponsored a “Workshop on University Administration and Other Non-Teaching Careers.” I hadn’t intended to go. Today was my first stop by the Graduate Center in about ten days, and I really had come in simply to run errands: print a few items, file for travel reimbursement, etcetera. But a […]
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April 16th, 2010
That’s the best verb I can come up with to describe my state of being at the moment. I am mired. Not admired, unfortunately–though there’s at least one person I can count on who feels that way. But between being completely stalled out on my diss, financially and logistically screwed by a roommate suddenly departing […]
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March 28th, 2010
A couple of years ago I took a year off from grad school. I returned to my home state of Minnesota and worked as an AmeriCorps volunteer in central Minneapolis, helping poor adults improve their computer skills so that they had a better chance of getting jobs. I lived at my mother and stepfather’s house, […]
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September 30th, 2009