Um. Yeah. I just looked at my upcoming schedule for the week. By next Tuesday, I have to:
* Read a 470-page book
* Read a critical article that’s 18 pages
* Read a second critical article that’s 21 pages
* Write a 3-page paper comparing two novels
* Work on finding 20 articles for my review of scholarship on an as-of-yet undefined topic, summarizing 10 of them (due in three weeks)
And in case you’re wondering, that’s for one of three classes. In the other classes, I have a story due in two weeks and in the other I have an in-class presentation due in three weeks. Both of which are in addition to my regular workload, of course.
When I say I like school, I most certainly do not mean that I like this part of school. The above, friends, is a buttload of work.
Current Mood: You’ve Got to Be @#$@% Kidding Me | 
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In addition to everything else, it’s the end of the quarter, which means trying to get out a WOTF submission, quarterly stats (okay, so I can be late with those), taxes. And now the woman who was doing my grading for one class went and had her baby and now doesn’t seem interested in grading those exams anymore, so I have to. Is there any justice in this world? Uh, no, and if I had to ask, then I already knew the answer. Thanks, I knew that, too.
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Coming off spring break, I can tell that no one–not students, not faculty, not the janitor–wants to be back at it for another six or so weeks.
Both Northwestern for undergrad and Michigan Tech for grad school were on ten week academic quarters. A much more humane system.
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