i think it's funny ... now that i'm in my last semester of school, about to graduate and move into the next "phrase" of my life, i'm getting involved. and now i don't want to leave. am contemplating taking graduate classes here for a bit, so that i can stick around and stay active.

some of us are getting involved in a battle to save the jobs of two female professors. they are being denied tenure, but there is no reason for it. and so we join together, pretend like we're in the sixties .. sit ins, flyers everywhere, black arm bands if we need to!!! i promise not to get arrested.

in other, "i don't want to graduate" news ... i may end up becoming the research assistant to at least one of the professors in my department. something i've longed to do, and something i may be able to get paid to do! the department is allowed to have two student workers, only there's not a lot of people who want to have to "superviese" them ... but i'm a big kid, and need no supervision ... that they know of. the menial tasks will be fun for me, as i can end up being a library assistant ... i'm at home amongst the books and paper.

and lets not forget that the selfish side of me will use it on a grad school resume.

and so life is moving along. i'm finally reading what i need to, writing what i want to, and getting homework done by the time it's due. good steps. now, all i need is black pants, a few more shirts, a new tattoo and my lip pierced, and i will be perfect!

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[letti]

i remember ( both times ) of being anxious about life "outside the uni gates" too. Just follow your heart and you will be very fulfilled :) All the best

[supine]

I hear you. After three years of office jobs, I am running headlong back into the welcoming arms of higher education. Grad school is our savior! Also, well done on the protesting -- I'm sure those professors are thrilled to have their students pulling for them like that.