Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Not everything is for the internet.
My second year of grad school begins next week. Tonight is an orientation reception for the first year students, and I’ll be there as an anti-shyness agent and walking information booth.
I’m totally confident that I can answer their questions about professors, workshops, the colloquium. I’ll know how they feel and who they should talk to, but that’s the extent of my experience.
What I’m learning right now is that second years are way more terrified than first years. Most of us anyway.
The only thing keeping me from freaking out more is freelance work that I’ve been trying to wrap up before school starts. Unshockingly, that doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen. Which reminds me that I’m also trying not to panic about not writing anything much at all, and that viable or timely ideas are going stale in my head. And sometimes I worry about this site, how old and lame it feels, how I should be a good and constant blogger, do the things I know I should do. Or I should flip the switch and not even think about blogging because it’s different and doesn’t serve my purpose. Plus that whole wad-blowing thing is totally true, which is why I’ve never been a daily poster of posts (not everything is for the internet and if I were that type of blogger I would have to have done it years ago).
Whatever happens in the next week, I can’t wait for school to start.
Page 1 of 1 pages
