The Trouble With Financial Aid

May 20, 2009 on 5:40 am | In Everything | 2 Comments

Oh man!

Grad school is kicking my ASS!  It’s the third week into summer classes for me, and with it come two incompletes from the last (also my first) semester.  My incompletes are all related to papers I haven’t yet completed.  For my grand excuse, however, I have neither taken any introductory history methods class, nor did I, even once, have to write a paper for my concentration when an undergrad.  I’m still only knowledgable of the “intro, three main parts, conclusion” method of writing.  Hopefully these few 15-page papers are down with that format.  A paragraph every three pages?  Let’s DO THIS!!

My anxiety is at an all-time high right now, and I’m doing what I do to deal with it.  Which would be counseling, my old constant.  They’re also having me try out medication to see if anything works out for me.  I, too, would like to know.

And financial aid dares hold my loans until I complete those papers!!!

I would be more upset if I wasn’t taking a placating History of Motion Pictures class, where we watch old black and white films.  I have now become a huge Charlie Chaplin fan.

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Adorable with the little bread-feet-dancing!

Well, once again I’m off to the library.  My new carrel is pretty pimp, with a larger desk and three times the walking space.

I’ve gotta get this stuff done!

めんどくさ～い!

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  1. Yay. Charity’s back :-D

    While I’m in grad school for English, not History, I know about doing papers. Most of my classes require a 3 – 5 page paper each week, usually based on reading assignments. Once I got in the swing of things, I could do a five page paper in a day and a 15 page paper in about three days. I could do them quicker but they wouldn’t be very good.

    Writing takes less time for me than the reading, because I try to pick out what’s important or useful for my paper. However, I usually don’t know what that is until I’m near the end of the reading. I take notes, use a highlighter, and/or make marginal notes to help me when I start writing.

    Loosely quoting Will Rogers, “You gotta tell ‘em what you’re going to tell ‘em, then you tell ‘em, then you tell ‘em what you told ‘em.” It’s the key to any essay, IMO.

    You also might want to find a book called “Academic Writing for Graduate Students” by Swales and Feak, which is a general guide, not meant for any one discipline. You can also search Amazon for ‘academic writing’ to check out other books of this type.

    Finally, you might see if your school has a writing center. Most universities do. They might be able to help you organize the paper.

    Comment by Michael H — May 25, 2009 #

  2. I tried to email this message to the owner of this blog, but it got rejected, so I’ll just have to post here. Gomen, I know it’s not the right place…

    My name is Patrick and I own the Englipedia website. You probably know it from your ALT days? According to your website/blog, it looks likes you’ve moved onto bigger and better things, a.k.a. graduate school. But, I just wanted to pass along a quick “thank you”.

    The Englipedia website still receives a couple of straglers a day that come into Englipedia and search 10+ pages on the site. Whoever they are, they are either curious about the site or find it useful…I’m guessing it’s the second one because the site is pretty specific to ALTs in Japan and probably pretty boring of they don’t work in the field.

    Anyways, they are finding the site because of a link(s) you have at teasmargarten. People passively posting links they find useful on their websites/blogs don’t go unnoticed and I just wanted to pass along my graditude.

    Good luck in grad school,

    Patrick
    Englipedia, owner

    Comment by Patrick — May 26, 2009 #

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