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January 18, 2008
And will I return to academic blogging?
I survived my first week of graduate school.
I managed to find my car on a campus larger than the town I grew up in (despite having parked it in the daytime without any snow and having to FIND it in the dark with inches of accumulated snow).
I am learning to navigate this campus (at the very least I know the building I have class in and the library).
I have memorized the route I will drive three days a week for the next year.
I made a few friends. (Strangely enough, my first friend at SHU was Amanda and my first friend at IUP is also named Amanda... weird.)
I managed to buy all the right books.
I've already set up a reading schedule for myself (only, unlike the one I had at SHU, there are no novels or poetry collections on the list--now it's mostly theory, postulation, and more theory).
I've already run into some of the same philosophers/theorists/critics that I studied in Philosophy of Art and Literary Criticism. (Evidently the theories on literature expand easily to applied linguistics and literacy, two of the things I'll be looking at deeply as the semester progresses.)
I had the urge to blog things I was excited about (but I can't be sure if it is classical conditioning at its best or a genuine impulse). Only time will tell. :)
Posted by KarissaKilgore at January 18, 2008 6:31 PM
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I had a professor at U.Va. who said his assigned parking space was farther from his office than his house was. I can only laugh when I hear people complaining about parking at SHU.
Yes, the basic approaches to constructing meanings from texts will include many approaches that overlap.
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at January 19, 2008 12:51 PM
My apartment in my first year of grad school was just under 1 mile from my office - I used to walk every day (parking in Boston was nigh impossible). After the first winter, my car died and I had to walk, but it wasn't bad. Once I went to Pitt, it was four blocks to the bus stop, and then a 30 minute ride into downtown Pittsburgh :)
As an undergraduate, I was allowed to park right outside my dorm. If I moved the car anytime between Monday morning and Friday afternoon, I'd never see that parking spot again. So the car only moved between 4PM Friday and 8PM Sunday!
Posted by: Joshua Sasmor at January 19, 2008 4:49 PM
Congratulations Karissa. Enjoy the theory! (I wonder what Deleuze and Guattari have to say about parking?)
Blog when you can, you've got readers here -- but I'd say your literary notes should be your own and you should cut any habits that get in the way of studying alongside your colleagues there and working toward publication in your field.
-- Mike Arnzen
Posted by: Michael Arnzen at January 20, 2008 5:40 PM
hey Karissa,
you should keep blogging whenever you can... I have similar problems sometimes I can't find the time to blog or sometimes whenever I have time, I don't feel like doing anything. this semester, I'm trying to blog at least once a week about anything just for the sake of blogging and writing. GOOD luck in your semester! What classes are you taking? how many? are they all theory?
Posted by: mike d. at January 20, 2008 11:03 PM