is this for me?  

Do i really want to be an academic? Why am i shooting for the moon? Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to complete my B.A. and either apply for education at McGill or try and get into the Masters in Administrative Science at JMSB? I don’t know how far away i want to move…i don’t know how much longer i want to do this for?

Call this the pre-GRE cold feet. Someone pls smack me out of it.

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Written by feather

August 30th, 2006 at 10:34 am

Posted in Academia, Speculations

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  1. No, I’ll hug your, cause I had the same type of worries about education not so long ago…

    *HUGGGGGGGS*

    Deborah

    30 Aug 06 at 10:52 am

  2. heather you are made for this.

    veronica

    30 Aug 06 at 11:18 am

  3. you’re made for it heather. just do the damn thing and do what you like.

    Anabelle

    30 Aug 06 at 2:58 pm

  4. Well, being an Academic does have its annoyances, some of which might be more irritating to some than to others. Example:

    - Having to publish material on a regular (annual?) basis.

    - Being expected to hire TAs to teach your classes (Don’t.Do.That!)

    - Fighting for tenure

    - Interdepartmental fighting. Humans are dangerous and stupid. Never forget that.

    - Thousands of papers to correct

    - Distinct lack of a proper social life

    - Crappy pay

    - Living in a very isolated intellectual world that’s 10-15 years ahead of what the general public knows to be the current-and-up-to-date accepted version of The Truth.

    - Being a smug, self-obsessed, high-brow, snobbish intellectual twat who’s no fun at parties and whose idea of a good time is attempting public readings of Proust.

    Upsides:

    - You teach what you want. It’s your call

    - You get to work with students who’ve just passed the whole hormonal angst period of their lives. This is Teh Yay.

    - You get your very own office.

    - Your life becomes one in which you live within your brain

    - Paid summers

    - Tenure is the greatest thing ever known to mankind

    - Conference trips!

    You seem to be obessive enough to enjoy such a career, and you certainly have the energy for such a job. You might not always live where you’d like, which is crappy, but the upsides are fairly cool. Or so I inclined to think…even if I do mock it mercilessly.

    Ilya Popov

    31 Aug 06 at 8:45 am

  5. Ilya, tha is the most beautiful response anyone has ever written to something i wrote. Thanks so much…thanks everyone for your support….

    hfeatherina

    31 Aug 06 at 4:31 pm

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