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Sunday, October 23, 2005
Wilma Cancels Classes
Well, all USF classes have been cancelled and all non-essential offices closed for Monday. Normally I would be delighted at this turn of events but my only class tomorrow, an undergraduate Linguistics course that I’m auditing, was cancelled several weeks ago because our instructor is out of town. I thought I had outgrown that “snow day” syndrome that plagues grade school kids, but apparently not.
Also, the picture is starting to emerge of what the rest of my semester is going to look like, and it’s characterized by several stretches of intense busyness punctuated by a few instances of possible free time and a beer or two. Because there are no classes tomorrow and I don’t have to report to campus to work, I will try to get started on the papers. Most would agree that the hardest part of a research paper is not the actual gathering of resources, the long nights of typing away on a computer, or the proofreading to make sure the sentences you typed at 2am are coherent. The hardest part is sitting down to start and defining the flow and tempo of the paper.
I wrote pretty well in undergraduate but there is more at stake here. Now, I’m not writing merely for a grade but for respect and acceptance as well. For one of my courses (that shall remain nameless) I am not motivated at all to put much energy into the final paper because I have not been motivated to learn what is being “taught” (I use the term loosely). In that respect, it’s going to be the hardest one to write and probably the least rewarding.
Posted by Will at October 23, 2005 03:20 PM in Graduate School