Posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2013, at 1:27:51
In reply to hoplelessness, posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2013, at 1:20:51
because it is sh*t, you see. and i have no earthly idea what i'm going to say in the middle bits. but of course i can't say that...
i'm going to do his stuff. which is of course what i'm supposed to have done all along. applied his stuff to something a bit new as best i can... then he gets to beat me over the head with how i've misunderstood him or that that extension won't work for this or that reason but this one over here might...
and then people want to hire me because i can be helpful for them insofar as i've got a bit more of a channel into his way of thinking (on certain areas or whatever) which matters for various things including prospective publications in his journal.
sigh.
but i picked the absent ones, oh yes, i did.
i didn't need them to be present, to be fair.
'good, good, keep going'
just a little bit more of that.
and not just me. he's notorious, apparently.
and i guess this is all just part of why finishing means something.
things are changing now... partly university support structures... partly academic culture. apparently students now are getting out of doing yearly seminars because they are perceived as 'too stressful / demanding / scary'. sucked it up and did them we were made to... but many people left, it is true.
i'm not sure what i think.
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