So I just finished my second day of graduate school. I'm happy to learn that I will be challenged here. I just counted up my textbooks for my three courses and (drumroll please)....it comes to a paltry sum of 28. I shall require another bookshelf quite soon.
All of my professors are amiable and helpful. Dr. Rankin insists we call him Bill, while he addresses us as Dr. (last name). Amusing little inversion, no? I appreciate that they all seem to regard us as peers rather than wielding their superior intellect and experience over us. Some students respond to be treated like crap or indifferently, I suppose, but I anticipate myself molding my teaching methodology after what I've been exposed to thus far at ACU.
As for my course load: I've got Literary Theory, Rhetorical and Composition Praxis, and Contemporary Literary Non-fiction. As to the third class, I was told the course would be "Boundaries of Truth in Fiction." Imagine the surprise upon glancing at the bold letters at the top of the syllabus. "Oh crap, I'm in the wrong place." It turns out that the premise of the course still involves exploring "Truth," just through non-fiction...12 books of it, to be precise.
Comp/Rhet Praxis has me really excited because we actually discuss how to teach. All my standardized testing in the past reveals I'm strongest in rhetoric, so I'm quite interested to see how I perform in this class.
My brain is getting heavily just writing this stuff. Gone are the days of being a social butterfly. I'll be the guy constantly encamped in the writing center, entombed by stacks of books--which I'm sure will all bear coffee stains before long. Sounds a bit depressing, but this is what I love and I'm blessed to be doing it.
Pictures and such to come soon.
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3 comments:
good luck.
[i'm jealous, in a good way.]
depressing???? ARE YOU KIDDING?
Hahaha. I'm with Kate :). But, of course, good luck with it all.
SO EXCITING! How was the Writing Center?!
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