http://knowledgik.net/blog i am the total black, thanks to the ever-present influence of an erudite minority. and audre lorde. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:44:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://knowledgik.net/blog/school/mid-year-reflections-on-grad-school/ http://knowledgik.net/blog/school/mid-year-reflections-on-grad-school/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:17:35 +0000 danielle http://knowledgik.net/blog/?p=1152

there’s a lot of emailing that happens. a lot. it’s really easy to get drama started via email. it’s happened at least 3 times in the past five months.

college students NEVER visit during your office hours, unless it’s to get something out of you. i can appreciate that, having been a college student like seven minutes ago. but it’s really dreary to sit in a room for two hours, when you know that the chances of you interacting with another human being are slim.

ultimately, you go to grad school to improve the speed with which you can violate copyright protections. for proof, all one would need to do is go to the copying/scanning section in any university library. there will be at least one kid who is making copies/scanning with a look of trepidation across their face, like they’re worried Prentice Hall/Cambridge University Press cops are about to jump out from behind something and arrest them (these kids are undergrads). there will also be at least one person who is committing a variant on intellectual property infringement with a tired, somewhat dazed look on their face, but at an incredible speed. these are my people, these are grad students.

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