grad school hell – Page 8 – A Pretty Taste for Paradox

god I inhaled so much sawdust today that I’m sneezing red cedar

“I’m getting my master’s degree in museology- museum studies, that is.”

“What do you do with a degree in museum studies?”

“…Well, right now I study museums.”

the first draft of my thesis chapters 1, 2, and 3 are due for peer review next thursday

this is probably a good time to start writing it.

I’m using a project management program to organize my thesis timeline but I keep marking every single task ‘high priority’ which is confusing the program

the first draft of my thesis chapters 1, 2, and 3 are due for peer review next thursday

this is probably a good time to start writing it.

room full of museum and law students arguing about how the UN works

I’m frustrated enough with course registration for winter quarter that I subtweeted our program coordinator on facebook

biannual grad program party at the apartment of the program director and his wife was, as always, fucking incredible

how to tell when the designer on your exhibit development team is starting to lose it: a diagram

I spent an hour and a half having an amazing conversation with an interpretative consultant this morning- it turns out networking is super fun when it’s one-on-one and not a huge group of strangers in a loud room

I can’t believe that two months ago I was worrying over who on earth would want to host my thesis project

because now I’ve got a yes from one site so I’m just trying to let all the various other people and institutions who’ve gotten back to me with interest in meetings down gently while making it clear I’m Still Available For Freelance and it keeps inappropriately reminding me of internet dating