School
My semester is coming to a close. I have one assignment left to finish. Classes are over. The course I'm TAing is ending: I've finished my marking for it and have no more labs or office hours. I don't have much reason to go to campus. I am a survivor :D
I think I'll still go to campus to get some work done. In part just to be social. I'm glad when I can drag Liv along with me.
I was one of two Graduate Student Representatives this semester, but I don't think I was very effective. I would like to try again next semester but be more proactive and organise communication with other graduate students better. Right now I feel a little like a black hole for faculty-student information :o It's not quite that bad, but there's much more I could do.
Summer
I'm not sure how I'll fund myself for the summer yet. I've applied to the Google Summer of Code, which would be great, but for which the competition is stiff. I've also applied to the few GTA positions there are over the summer, though there are a couple I'd actually rather not do :) I can't be picky, of course. The most interesting one might be one focussing on society and computing, but I'm not sure I'm sufficiently qualified, having not read the text book. I'd like to think that my active interest in the domain for the past many years might qualify me better, but there are many graduate students wanting work and few positions for the summer.
People
The summer might be lonely. Most people I know are heading away for it, or away from Guelph for good. Time to make new friends, I guess :D Liv is nagging me, so I'll quit writing mundane stuff and go away for now. Au revoir.
I hope it won't be too lonely for you, and if it is, it's the blue sort of solitude that leads to great poetry, and quiet observation of riverflows.
ReplyDeleteYou could probably read a bit ahead of the students, or just take the course with them and respond to all inquiries with, "And what makes you think that?" (GTA reads like Greater Toronto Area).
Yay for making it through another semester! You seem to have done well. <3
I don't think it will prove too lonely. I think I'll be too busy, and good weather will entertain :D
ReplyDeleteHehe, I generally do try to know what's up before it comes up :)
Thanks.