I am mostly caught up with work--mostly--but I have set aside most of tomorrow (well it's after midnight, so "today"), to write a paper. Five to six pages, about what I would have written as an undergrad. It's due on Friday. Hopefully I can get it knocked out tomorrow, let it sit overnight, and then review it on Wednesday before submitting.
I haven't picked a topic yet from the rubric, but I've remembered how my brain can pick up on things at an unusual or skewed angle and I generally find something interesting to write about, even if it's a topic I find dull. *ahem* I mean, I wrote about volcanoes, and mud slides (excuse me: Mass Wasting Events), and water storage--with all As' (thank gawd because I sucked on the tests), so I'm sure I can find something interesting thought-provoking, or even controversial to write about.
I also need to review the guidelines for writing an APA style paper--I've done them so rarely. It's either been CMS or MLA.
I'm going to tough it out. My hope is that once we're past these foundation classes and into the actual meat of things, that I will find things more interesting. If not, then this will be a one-semester graduate program for me. I need to be realistic.
My dream job showed up in my lap two weeks before class started. It's going to get a lot busier. And I love what I'm doing. It's what I went to college for and earned a BA and a certificate for (and, you know, ending sentences with prepositions.). I hope to do it, as well as my own creative writing, for the rest of it my life. So I'm a little torn.
So my confidence got kicked a bit, my intelligence was bored with the subject matter (was? is?), I felt overwhelmed and disorganized (which I was), but I've got a handle on things now. I think.
We'll see. I should know by tomorrow night.
Cheers
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