On Monday night I gave my final thesis presentation…so glad that’s over (but it went well! And don’t tell anyone, but it was actually a little fun. I’m just glad at least the stress of it is over). I still have three-ish weeks before the final deliverable product is due and a lot of revisions, but I’m so close I can taste it.
I’m almost done with grad school (for now). Yay!
I just sent my first email over a national association’s listserv. It was slightly terrifying. I’ve never proofread a two sentence email so hard in my life.
In higher education news of the week…..
There are two things the Delta Gamma sorority’s University of Maryland chapter refuses to tolerate. The first is Delta Gammas who are “LITERALLY being so fucking AWKWARD.” The second is young ladies who are “so fucking BORING.” Last week, bitches got told.
I’m sure their Greek Life people are all over this.
Thirty-three Northwestern University undergrads will be giving away $100,000 as part of a new interdisciplinary class, “Learning Philanthropy and Engaging in the Study and Practice of Giving,” in the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP).
Taught by SESP dean Penelope Peterson and former Spencer Foundation director Lauren Jones Young, “Learning Philanthropy” will examine the history and practice of philanthropic giving and, in a very real way, demonstrate the impact that charitable giving can have.
Iiiiiiinteresting.
Holy crap! And I don’t think Dean Peterson taught classes when I was an undergrad (at least not when I was in SESP), which is a bummer because I think it would have been great.
How about they donate it to an alumni who is about to have start paying back a lot of student loan debt? No? It was worth asking.
Go Cats!
I haven’t done one of these since early December. Since it’s the first day of April, I figured it’d be a good time to check in with myself.
Obsessing Over: Cute spring clothing and all the sunshine we’ve had recently. I’m so ready to put away my Uggs and Bean boots and bring out cute flats and dresses.
Working On: About to start hardcore revising my literature review for my thesis. The revisions are due on Friday and I won’t have any other time this week to really work on it. I’m using a vacation day at work so I can plug away at it.
Thinking About: How much work I still have left to do on the lit review. The faculty domain of it is being a pain in my ass. I can’t figure out what my literature should be talking about, which makes lit searching hard.
Anticipating: The drive back to my apartment later today, being done with the lit review once and for all later this week, my last “first day” of classes this week as I start my final term of grad school.
Listening To: Some annoying old masterpiece BBC mystery crap my parents are watching.
Drinking: Nothing currently
Wishing: that a cheaper apartment unit in my building becomes available, because I need to let them know if I’m moving when my lease ends at the end of May, and I can’t afford the rent hike for my current unit. I really don’t feel like moving, so if i can stay in the building it’d be a relatively easy transition.
whatshouldwecallstudentaffairs:
After our cohort had to submit our lit review last December, we all recreated this picture. Our revised drafts are due next week, which means a sequel will be made.
I saw Admission this morning…that totally counts as professional development for anyone working in higher ed, right?
Not the best movie ever, but it was good. And as someone who has worked in college admissions, pretty damn accurate.
Also, I still go to my college movie theater because they do crazy discounts for the first movie showing of the day.
My revised/final literature review is due two weeks from tomorrow…I’ve managed to avoid doing any major work on it since I submitted the first draft in December (other things got in the way, like survey design/methodology, etc). I’m finding more articles and redoing an entire domain and it kind of makes me hate my life just a little bit.
I like reading about my topic because it’s what I ultimately want to do with my career, but I’m so over this process.
As a college administrator, I should probably be more interested in March Madness. Maybe I would be, if my alma mater ever had a chance of even entering the the tournament (sorry, Northwestern). That’s why I pay more attention to football.
That said, I read this article over on Inside Higher Ed and they found an interesting corollary between academic performance of the schools and their tournament performance. Therefore, I’m copying their bracket and using it (except I’m going with Kansas over Belmont). Click through the picture to get a larger/zoomable image of the bracket.
For all you high school seniors who may happen upon my blog, please take this advice from Buzzfeed (click through title link for the rest)
1. Try your best to stay calm.
The intense ramp-up can make college decisions seem like the end-all and be-all of your life thus far. THEY ARE NOT. One way or the other, YOU WILL pursue the education you want and deserve.
I’ve had the final drafts of my survey typed up in Word for weeks now, but I finally got around to putting it into SurveyMonkey. As soon as my med school supervisor signs off on my cover letter and I track down email addresses for the 80 docs I need to survey (I have names, but not emails), I’ll be off and running.
Graduation this spring. So ready to be done with this.
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I’m a huge supporter of encouraging students to use technology to create things, and then to share them in some way with the world around them. Aside from encouraging them to be global citizens, I think it has the positive side effect of giving them ownership of content, and the experience of actively wanting other people to share their work with proper attribution (which helps reinforce the importance of not plagiarizing others).
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I'm a 20-something Northwestern alum working and studying in Chicago.
In fall 2010 I started as a first year grad student at a medical school, but realized I wanted to be working with students instead of patients. I left the program to pursue a new graduate program, and I just finished my first year (of two) working toward my masters degree in higher education/student affairs.
This fall I began my first full-time job as an academic advisor and began my master's thesis.
MBTI = INTJ
I can be reached at gradschoolroundtwo@gmail.com
These are my adventures in grad school... round two.
The opinions expressed in this blog are my own and not those of my employer or my program.
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