Friending Meme!

[ajnabieh]

Friending/Introduction meme! Because everyone needs more acafriends, right? Right?

Here's a suggested format:

Name/Handle/User Name/Etc:
What You Do (i.e., grad student, adjunct, librarian, etc):
Specialization (discipline, subfield, whatever level of granularity you want):
Research/Teaching Interests:
Geographic Location:
Other Stuff You Do (i.e., the stuff that keeps you from going crazy):
Anything Else You Feel Compelled To Add:

Comments

[majoline]

Name/Handle/User Name/Etc: I'm Margaret
What You Do (i.e., grad student, adjunct, librarian, etc): currently stalled student
Specialization (discipline, subfield, whatever level of granularity you want): Political Science (constitutional law) but I'm looking into religious studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Indo-European studies; politics
Geographic Location: Mississippi
Other Stuff You Do (i.e., the stuff that keeps you from going crazy): currently nothing really :(
Anything Else You Feel Compelled To Add: I have had the worst time ever in college. It's been two years of trying to regain my health from the stress and it's honestly cheaper to be unemployed right now. I just want to get my life back enough to finish the dern BA and do an online masters. blah

[holyschist]

Oh, man, I hear you on unemployment being cheaper. I took an extra year in grad school due to having fairly serious mental health problems I was dealing with on top of a very close death in the family and the fact that I hated my program violently and was working and...

...unemployment would have been SO MUCH cheaper and MUCH less stressful, plus I probably could have held down a normal job or temped or something. School can be really awful for the mental and physical health, and that just makes it harder to finish.

Good luck with getting things back onto the track you want!

[majoline]

I did all the math and figured out to keep going even with the wonderful grant I got would leave me no gas or textbook money. And with everything else, I just said it wasn't worth it.

But thank you for the good luck! *hugs* You need it too, hon :D

[holyschist]

That really sucks. Education funding has really tanked even more the last few years.