I just realized that the problem I am having with figuring out a thesis topic is that I don’t…. want…… to write about museums….. at all…….
Tag: grad school hell
Staying caught up with laundry is the grad school struggle no one ever talks about.
things we have so far discussed in today’s museum theater class:
-the history of Air Force One
-pregnancy
-the cultural roots of the stylistic choices in Japanese animation
-the ethics of the Creation Museum blacklisting people
things we have not yet discussed:
-museum theater
theater PhD candidates having an encyclopedic knowledge of Aaron Sorkin’s work is perhaps the least surprising thing that has happened in grad school
today my exhibit design prof was talking about writing label text concisely and was like “ask yourself- is having the scientific name on there REALLY necessary” and I gasped dramatically and jerked upright in my seat as if I’d been electrocuted and I got like a minute into a passionate defense of including latin names on signs before I caught myself
hideflen
replied to your post “every time I find a wikipedia article with the subheading ‘Debate’ or…”
One of my friends was worried about meeting people from AMNH at a paleontology conference bc one of their staffers punched our professor about stratocladistics once
INCREDIBLE. god I love academia.
I’ll just finish this reading before I go to bed-
“[…] to achieve a radically rigorous mimesis many feel can trip the transivity of time.”
-nope. sleep now.
update: the entire rest of the reading was like this. and worse. the professor freely admitted that this author was not only hated by all his former museology students, but is generally acknowledged to be impenetrable even among fellow theater scholars. thanks scott.
I’ll just finish this reading before I go to bed-
“[…] to achieve a radically rigorous mimesis many feel can trip the transivity of time.”
-nope. sleep now.
baby’s first 3d model. We’re learning SketchUp in my exhibits class and it is a certifiable nightmare.
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 