Some people revel in being professional students. They retreat away from the working world into the theoretical confines of academia. MBA classes are probably the least like this, since some people almost recommend you put networking over studying. Studying literature or one of the sciences,though, puts you on a track where much of your future employment is right there in academia. Provided you got tenure, you could go your whole life still working off a student ID card you got when you were 18.
I don't want to be a student again. I want to know this material, and until I can internalize a symbiote worm with someone else's knowledge in it (Deep Space 9 geek check!) grad school is the only way to go. I am spending bits of time this week walking around flocks of 19-year-olds,feeling slightly out of place with my growing flock of gray hairs. They have meal plans and campus social lives. I just airdrop in, take notes for a proscribed time, and go home.
Wally in Like, I Am the Walrus is fairly far from a professional student.Maybe Wally can shape up in his later years and shift from class goof-off to class I-love-biochemistry guy. But that depends on him surviving the particularly unfortunate test in this story, one where maybe it's not a fortunate thing to bring the recommended two #2 pencils. - Sean
Friday, September 7, 2007
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Hi, Sean. (I'm assuming this is Sean.) I just wanted to let you know that I LOVED your story over on MicroHorror and linked to it on my blog at http://abunchofwordz.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/short-stories-endless-nightmares/ . Good luck with all the school stuff. :)
Thank you very much. Yep, I'm in the blue type, and Jeff's in the orange.
The second week of school is looking to be much more manageable than the first. Last week was like reading chapter 1 of six Russian novels. How the hell am I supposed to keep track of all of this? Now that some of the same characters are showing up again, it's doable. Double entry system, I remember him! And the balance sheet returns! Must be a major character here.
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