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[arwink]

How long will the "grading" season last?

And how many classes do you teach?

I don't know. My workload doubled since last year, and I'm at a new university with unfamiliar assesment tasks so it'll be a learning process.

Technically, I teach about five classes in the space of a week, and I'm meant to attend two lectures and a staff meeting. This week I have to cover for people who were sick, and on the weeks where we look at my specialties (Apparently poetry and collaborative writing) I get to do lectures instead of listen to them.

 

[arwink]

Whew...I have no idea where to start

I'm kind of an abberation for my uni. I arrived straight after high school, and in ten years I've only been out of a degree for a total of four months before I signed onto the next. Most people go do something else before they sign onto the post-grad courses for some reason. Me, I've just never seen a need to take a break

It makes classes interesting. For some reason, students expect their tutors to be older, and not quite as geeky

 

[Maldur]

I don't know. My workload doubled since last year, and I'm at a new university with unfamiliar assesment tasks so it'll be a learning process.

Technically, I teach about five classes in the space of a week, and I'm meant to attend two lectures and a staff meeting. This week I have to cover for people who were sick, and on the weeks where we look at my specialties (Apparently poetry and collaborative writing) I get to do lectures instead of listen to them.

Sound like a heavy workload: good luck!
But I did see you added some poetry to the womats site. So you have some time to do stuff for yourself
Im pretty jealous on your writing skills. It something I always had trouble with.

 

[UnDfind]

Originally posted by Arwink:

It makes classes interesting. For some reason, students expect their tutors to be older, and not quite as geeky

I certainly won't be expecting that. I'm 24, and will probably be 25 by the time I get into a college. Don't know where, though.

How's Australia? Worth the pain of a student visa to go to college there?

 

[arwink]

But I did see you added some poetry to the womats site. So you have some time to do stuff for yourself

It's old. I wrote it about three years ago for my honors thesis, and I'm playing with it again so I can enter a prize for unpublished poetry collections

Im pretty jealous on your writing skills. It something I always had trouble with.

Nine years of study I'm bound to have picked some stuff up

I tend to be a little obssessive about writing and books too, which helps. At eighteen I pretty much decided that writing, time to read and poverty were preferable to not-writing and getting a job doing something I hated. Still haven't got around to regretting that, although people keep warning me it'll happen sooner or later. Writings a skill, just like everything else. It's mostly just that people don't have the time to obsessively practice it.

 

[arwink]

I certainly won't be expecting that. I'm 24, and will probably be 25 by the time I get into a college. Don't know where, though.

How's Australia? Worth the pain of a student visa to go to college there?

Depends where in Australia you go, and what exactly you want to focus on. It's a nice country though, for all it's faults, and we have a fair number of exchange students in the writing course so it seems a fairly popular option.

 

[UnDfind]

Hmmm...

Now I've got college on the brain. Googleing colleges in Australia...

Sydney University...University of Tasmania (Is their football team "The Devils?' )

 

[Maldur]

It's old. I wrote it about three years ago for my honors thesis, and I'm playing with it again so I can enter a prize for unpublished poetry collections

Okay my wrong

Nine years of study I'm bound to have picked some stuff up

I sure hope so

I tend to be a little obssessive about writing and books too, which helps. At eighteen I pretty much decided that writing, time to read and poverty were preferable to not-writing and getting a job doing something I hated. Still haven't got around to regretting that, although people keep warning me it'll happen sooner or later. Writings a skill, just like everything else. It's mostly just that people don't have the time to obsessively practice it.

I agree with the practice part, I find myself improving in the last few years. But I still look up to people, that can just whip something up in a few hours I tend to be better in cooking up ideas, that I am in writing them up so other people can use them.

btw your very lucky you knew waht you wanted to do from the start. I tend to like a trillion things. And So I ended up as a Jack of all trades, master of none.(not exactly true as I do have the master title but I really dont want to do that job)

 

[arwink]

btw your very lucky you knew waht you wanted to do from the start. I tend to like a trillion things. And So I ended up as a Jack of all trades, master of none.(not exactly true as I do have the master title but I really dont want to do that job)

Actually, I enrolled as a Psych and Sociology major, doing the universities introductory writing course an an elective. After my first year, I realised I liked writing way to much and had failed half the pre-requisits to everying else, so I basically picked up writing by default

This is what lead to massive arguements with my parents about my future, the funding of my university degree, and eventually got me turfed out of the house

 

[Maldur]

Actually, I enrolled as a Psych and Sociology major, doing the universities introductory writing course an an elective. After my first year, I realised I liked writing way to much and had failed half the pre-requisits to everying else, so I basically picked up writing by default

Well I spend about 13 years doing all kindsa studies(school system is different, but these years are about the same level as college) , and ended up working at a job without formal training in that field

So Finding what you wanted after one yea is pretty good