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taoman1121 (profile) wrote,
on 9-26-2005 at 12:20pm
Current mood: worried
Music: Johnny Cash & Fiona Apple - Father and Son
Subject: "The American potential for self-invention and the sadness that can come with that achievement"
While now, I can't get any research done if I don't find an advisor, can I? And my possibilities are swiftly being exhausted with a congenial response of "Sorry, but I can't take on any more students this semester."

I hate not being in the loop. I'm getting so close (to everything), but I'm so paranoid that a couple in-actions here and there and the bus is going to leave without me.

(edit 1:27pm)
Last week, Apple introduced the wafer-thin, flash-based iPod nano. What do people think?

- "Would companies stop making smaller, more powerful electronic goods? It's starting to freak me out."
- "I know I'll end up buying it anyway, but I do worry that this new iPod may be too small to effectively flaunt in public."
- "As a maker of custom iPod cases, sleeves, and belt clips, I'd just like to say: Goddammit! Slow the fuck down!"
- "Damn. I just got over not being to afford an old iPod."
- "As last, after years of false hopes and empty promises, I can finally shove 1,000 songs up my ass."
- "Excuse me? The first two floors of my house are still underwater? Hello? Has anyone seen my husband?"
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michellestar

09-26-05 2:12pm

lol I like the ass one. Did you know Jeeber bought one? The little shit has two iPods now. :P

If you don't find an advisor right now the only effect that will have is delay. It doesn't make you a failure, nor does it close off any paths you may want to take. But in the meantime it will force you to look in other directions and you will come across things you hadn't planned on. For some reason, I think that's more fulfilling.

How are you out of the loop?

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TaoMan1121

Re:, 09-26-05 4:14pm

Stupid Woohu won't let me post a relpy to your comment, Michelle, so here you go:

No, if I don't find an advisor within the next two weeks, I get assigned one. That is, most likely, NOT a good thing. And while it may not close off any paths in the long run, it seriously delays me getting my research off the ground. This is turn adds to the time it takes to get out of here, which is unnecessarily long as it is. I can understand the professors' position of not being able to take on any more students right now, but if I can't do the research I want to do, then why the hell did I uproot my life to come here?

I just don't feel that I should be punished for having a definite idea of what I want to do with my time here. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to take it out on you, but I can't handle having such a tenuous and shaky grasp on my academic life.

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taoman1121

Re: Re:, 09-26-05 4:15pm

Figured out what was wrong... forgot to remove introduction. ::shoots himself::

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