I know that the only people that still check to see if I post anything here are related to me but…
Finally! I’m ABD.
When you’ve been out of coursework for so long and the only accountability is to yourself….hearing that you’ve officially made it to the land of ABD is worth tons!
And this semester certainly ended with lots of good news…I am happy to say that I was awarded the departmental grad student teaching award as well as the college of arts and sciences grad student teaching award too!
I’m also accepting a new assistantship with the women’s and gender studies program this fall that I am very psyched about. I’ll still teach a class in the English department, but the WGS position will allow me to be involved in programming, organizing, as well as curricular issues. I’m really excited to develop my class for the fall though–it’s a visual rhetoric composition class that I’ll be teaching to 2nd and 3rd year Interior Design and Architecture Studio students.
So now the summer will be committed to crafting the perfect dissertation prospectus. It’s great to be reinvigorated!
2 Comments
May 24, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Congrats! Now we’re both ABD!!! I already love the freedom, although I know that the accountability to myself has to kick in soon. I also think I will have to deal with the Institutional Review Board for my diss and something tells me that that might make my writing process last longer than a calendar year [my goal].
We’ll see…first, the prospectus!
May 26, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Whew! I hear you…
I’m trying to only think through little chunks at a time:
prospectus.
then fellowship applications.
then IRB approval.
then….another to-do list!