Friday, February 13, 2009
You know when you're turning into a 100% geek when
1.You can subsist on bread/muesli bars and Dracula till 9 at night.
2.You have to make do with the wall in the Graduate Students' Room for companionship.
3.You (sometimes) want to make do with the wall in the Graduate Students' Room for companionship.
4.You treat photocopying articles as a form of relaxation.
5.You can photocopy a whole 200-page book for your supervisor in under an hour. I challenge you to speed photocopying!
6.You get drawn to other students who have the same perverse interests as you do and clump together to form a homosocial fangirl community.
7.You feel like "slashing" some of your professors.
8.You have a "hot date" with your notes on Gothic capitalist modernity on Valentine's Day.
Jokes aside, I'm really enjoying my first semester as a Masters student. The Gothic Properties seminar is challenging but very enjoyable, and I love getting into the complexities of the texts and sharing my ideas and learning from my friends and the Prof in class. Unfortunately, the discussion seems limited to the few of us who make it a point to participate actively (and you can actually count the number of people who speak up regularly on 1 hand) so things are a far cry from the great Level 4000 20th century seminar which will go down in history, but hey, if people don't want to participate, that's their choice.
For all those who don't know yet, I'm also working for one of the Profs as a research assistant, and so far, I've been doing all sorts of things like making book orders, creating a Macrobibliography, photocopying stuff, wrangling with the library, and now, indexing for a book he's editing. The work is pretty tedious but I'm learning a lot of new things, and the Prof has been imparting sagely advice about graduate studies and publishing and the like, which is very useful. I'm glad I took on this job because it gives me an insider's view into the ways of the academia, even though most of the Prof's previous RAs didn't seem to stay on for more than half a year... Well, we'll see how it goes.
kaoru said at 7:35 AM
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