This semester, I vowed to blog regularly. That clearly has not happened. New Years resolution, perhaps? Still, I thought I would post a year of review. I survived the semester, guys! And for all of you grad students or former ones, you know that is a good feeling. I feeling of total relief. At first I wonder, what have I done in the last semester? Holy crap I am catching up on the extended cable that my parents are now providing me free of charge for the holiday season. Apart from basketball games which I refuse to miss out on, I haven't watched TV in like 5 weeks. Final papers, finals, and grading sucked most of the life out of me.
But, really, I've done a lot.
Let's take stock:
1. I taught 2 sections of a methods course for u-grads. This is a weed-out. No one wants to be there but I think I did okay! I worked my ass off, cried a lot when I felt like I was failing them, but mostly learned a great deal about teaching - what I like, what I don't like, etc.
2. Based on 1 I know I don't want to go to a teaching school. Please God don't let this happen!
3. I have an article I need to send out. I need to do that this break, damn it.
4. I was accepted into two conferences. This will be a hellish semester paper-wise but one I am willing to put the time into.
5. Despite all of this, I aced a semester of courses that were not in my major field, minor field, or outside. Having taken almost everything before, my options were nill. I took two American Politics courses and excelled despite my lack of care for the subject. I credit some of this to a prof that I loved.
So, really. I'm okay. I will be posting some teaching stories that may blow your mind (and not in a good way) later if I remember to update, but it's over!
Now I am suffering from PTBS - post-traumatic boredom syndrome.
