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Thursday, 14 December 06 :: one nice thing about a terminal degree program

all i need to get in all my classes is a B. I don't need an A. I need a B. Why? Because this better be the last degree I ever get.

and i just found this list i'd kept here on this blog about getting into a phd program, here is a snippet:

pack up my life in oregon
cry many tears
leave oregon
cry many more tears
arrive at grad school
cry more tears about missing oregon
begin my new life, 4 years of hell and excitement
cry.
survive 1st year.
cry. wonder why the fuck i'm doing this.

hmm. lets see. it should be changed just a wee bit:

pack up my life in oregon
cry many tears
leave oregon
cry many more tears
arrive at grad school
cry more tears about missing oregon
cry. wonder why the fuck i'm doing this.
cry. wonder why the fuck i'm doing this.
begin my new life, 4 years of hell and excitement
cry.
cry. wonder why the fuck i'm doing this.
cry. wonder why the fuck i'm doing this.
survive 1st month.
cry. wonder why the fuck i'm doing this.
survive 2nd month.
cry. wonder why the fuck i'm doing this.
survive 3rd month.
cry. wonder why the fuck i'm doing this.
survive 4th month.
cry. wonder why the fuck i'm doing this.
survive 1st semester.
cry. wonder why the fuck i'm doing this.
do dishes for the first time 4 weeks.

umm yep. i've accomplished all of that.. except the last one. i think i'll go do that now.

posted by brooke at December 14, 2006 07:39 AM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.