First Day of Back To School as a 3/4-Time Student
today, i went with the just-got-out-of-bed look. i usually go with this because i get up too late to worry about any of the other looks. but today i actually felt like how i looked, which meant that over lunch i freshened up the out-of-bed-look with a nap (and by nap i really mean i laid in bed and ate candy).
how's that for a returning, undeclared 3/4-time graduate student?
there were worse pictures in this series of self-portraits...
how's that for a returning, undeclared 3/4-time graduate student?
there were worse pictures in this series of self-portraits...
i just got back from my first class of the semester, where i single-handedly alienated everyone in the seminar almost as soon as i sat down. it didn't take more than two seconds either. i was sitting beside the teacher and when she asked which way we should go around the table introducing ourselves i wasn't shy in pointing in the direction away from me, making me the last. i needed the extra time to come up with why i was taking this class, i still don't really know why and after listening to 16 similar versions of why everyone was taking the class, my turn came. i said, "i'm ellen. i'm looking for a justification for architecture." the room was still and silent in only the way a grouping of people can be when you've said something completely kooky.
the silence was followed by the professor laughing and then incorporating my statement into her reasoning behind the class. great, now i'm old, weird, and the teacher's pet. i've become the older-overachieving student that everyone makes fun of. then i kept getting distracted with people walking by in the hall with loud shoes on until the professor asked me to close the door. i guess my head whipping around at every sound was more distracting to her then the noise.
the silence was followed by the professor laughing and then incorporating my statement into her reasoning behind the class. great, now i'm old, weird, and the teacher's pet. i've become the older-overachieving student that everyone makes fun of. then i kept getting distracted with people walking by in the hall with loud shoes on until the professor asked me to close the door. i guess my head whipping around at every sound was more distracting to her then the noise.
posted by Ellen at 2:59 PM
3 Comments:
ellen, thank goodness you have a blog. i will miss you when i go to korea. try not to go anywhere while i'm gone.
i know, i'm terribly selfish.
to make up for it, i promise to be a better blogger once i leave the country.
you are fabulous. and bedhead products call it the SEXY just-got-out-of-bed look.
ellen, i think your hair qualifies as Hip, even if you are the teacher's pet.
hmmm. teachers pets are rarely hip, but you may be the exception. your bed-head hair has been sexier, though. and you don't get to qualify as Old until your advisor starts to tell you to Keep An Eye on the younger students in your department, and to use your vast wisdom as a Senior Graduate Student to guide them in their graduate careers. that makes you feel old.
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