I have nervously, but finally, decided to get my ass a PhD. I've wanted one for years (really, I decided to get one about one semester into my Master's program). But I was always afraid of being one of those losers who couldn't hack it in the real world and hides in college forever; I had nightmares about becoming some overweight, frizzy-haired tenure jockey who smells like cat litter. (You know who I'm talking about. If you went to college, you took her class at some point. Every school has one.)
Well, fuck it. I always dreamed of becoming a professional student, and this life I'm living now isn't working, so I might as well become a tenure jockey if it makes me happy. So I'm getting a damn PhD and then I'm going to become a professor. I'll have summers (and money!) free for my own filmmaking and photography projects, and I'll also have stability, health insurance, benefits, and occasional sabbatical. Why the hell not?
I found a terrific program at Yale. Har. I can see myself with a PhD from Yale. Because it is extremely unlikely that I'll be one of the 3 or 4 people they accept each year, I'm also looking at other schools. But that's a SWEET program at Yale, and I already have an idea for my dissertation topic there. Fingers are crossed for that one. I'm hoping to start my coursework in the fall of 2007, so I'm getting my shit together over the next few months for the December application deadlines.
First thing I have to conquer is the GRE. <shudder> I get the feeling this one's going to be a little rougher than the ACT and I'll have to actually study for it. I plan on taking it around August or September.
And in another five or six years, y'all might have to call me DOCTOR!![]()


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