What a Difference a Year Makes (Discourse Chronicle)
Comments(0) [I am consistently surprised about how different Year Two of graduate school is compared with Year One. Loyal readers remember not everything went well for me last year, which I attribute to culture shock because I am from Wisconsin, but also the transition from undergrad to grad work despite being a former McNair Scholar. Thus far, I survived the first day of new graduate courses such as: Old English, Romanticism, and Pedagogy along with teaching freshman composition.
I also met most of our new graduate students and everybody seems awesome. I am currently convincing a new Early Modern graduate student to switch over to Rhetoric and Composition. I believe I can do it, too, especially since I talked my best friend into switching to English from the sciences during college. Now he teaches 9th and 10th grade English at a private school in a suburb of Dallas. Obviously I am much happier with how this year is going than last and hopefully the Powers that Be will allow me to stay on for PhD studies. BK]
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