grad school hell – Page 4 – A Pretty Taste for Paradox

okay I don’t say this often because it’s both arrogant sounding and hardly ever true but

I not only could have taught that class, but I could have taught it much better than the actual professor did

he committed every single goddamn cardinal teaching sin: droning voice, not looking up from his notes- from which he read, verbatim, for almost the entire class- more than twice an hour, no discussion or debate, no visual aides at all, failing to relate the content to anything that the average student might have as a frame of reference (nor did he include interesting anecdotes), and being vague and unspecific about assignment requirements.

I’m going to fucking stage a coup.

why avoidance is a bad problem solving strategy: I have 32 unread emails in my university account and they’re all important

this is a very niche problem to be having but… god it’s hard to make salal leaves and red alder leaves look obviously different in a pencil drawing

photographic proof I’m actually working on my thesis. this is the illustration for the sign about nurse logs.

if I get stolen by faeries and escape but end up years in the future do I get out of finishing my thesis?

should be thesis-ing, am instead doodling decreasingly-humanoid elves on my editing notes.

goddamnshinyrock:

apparently lucidchart.com is free for students, so I made a little test chart while learning the ropes.

penultimate drafts of first three chapters of my thesis are due tomorrow.

purpleplunderbunny:

goddamnshinyrock:

the previous post brought to you by the fact that I went to a strategic planning meeting about the future of my MA program today and one of my fellow students- an art museum education person- was saying that we should do LESS hands-on collections/exhibits work in our program and have classes focus more on the ethics and philosophy of museums and, furthermore, maybe museums shouldn’t even have collections at all.

so if you’re wondering how far up their own asses art museum people are……….. it’s that far.

I’m sorry but

how do u have a museum without a collection

I DON’T KNOW. it would be “””””experiential””””….. I guess. I mean, plenty of science centers really only have teaching collections but that’s still something.

the previous post brought to you by the fact that I went to a strategic planning meeting about the future of my MA program today and one of my fellow students- an art museum education person- was saying that we should do LESS hands-on collections/exhibits work in our program and have classes focus more on the ethics and philosophy of museums and, furthermore, maybe museums shouldn’t even have collections at all.

so if you’re wondering how far up their own asses art museum people are……….. it’s that far.