Where are you going to school right now?

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And what's your major/area of study/dissertation topic?

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

I a second year graduate student in the English department at Rice University in Houston, Texas. I'm working on American Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Religion, and Intellectual History.

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm taking a break from school for a while.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

i'll know for sure later this spring where i'm going to school, but i'll be doing land use/sustainable growth stuff.

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

Catholic University. M.S. in Library and Information Science. Major area of study: becoming employable.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 12 February 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

dude, some of us are grownups.

― Mitya (mitya), Sunday, 12 February 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

Accounting. I graduate in the Spring.

― Lenny Koggins (Bimble...), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

UT-Arlington, technically undeclared, but kind of fine arts. Possibly English. Formerly political science.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

On a leave of absence for medical reasons from Boston University--majoring in International Relations.

Pssst...most of ILX is OLD PEOPLE.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

uh huh, and? the average grad student is 30 years old these days.

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

Just graduated from San Diego State University (GO AZTECS) this past Christmas with a B.A. in Geography (emphasis in Natural Resource Conservation) and I start grad school this fall at the University of Arkansas (GO RAZORBACKS) for my M.A. in Human Geography.

― ath (ath), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

UT-San Antonio, second-year junior, pursuing B.A. in political science and minor in economics.

― what does this confusing fream mean? (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

The Helsinki University, faculty of social sciences. I'm currently majoring in Third World studies, minor in sociology and economic and social history, but I'm thinking of changing my major to women's studies, which is what I've been studying the most for the last couple of years.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 12 February 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in the home stretch of the Phd program in the English Department at UC Berkeley. My dissertation is on melancholy in English visual art, drama, and prose 1590-1660.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 12 February 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Some university in London/MA Information Management (Library pathway)/The use and usefulness of online information sources within a healthcare environment.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 12 February 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

junior at the u of arizona, studying political science.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 12 February 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

university of LIFE, mofos! ;-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 12 February 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

I dropped out of that one Nath! Sweet academia! :)

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 12 February 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Duuuuuuude, I know how hard it is. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 12 February 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm doing a PhD in theoretical astrophysics at Oxford. I study galaxies.

― Mike W (caek), Sunday, 12 February 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to the I.E.S. Eras de Renueva, and I "teach" English, Geography and Science.

Other than that, I suppose I go to Glasgow University and I "learn" French and Spanish.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 12 February 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hard Knocks (majoring in Dusting Yourself Off After Bitter Disappointment and Trying Again) :)

― john clarkson, Sunday, 12 February 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

U of poo, st lou.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 12 February 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

University College London, Anthropology BSc/my dissertation's on Myspace memorials

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Sunday, 12 February 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose I go to Glasgow University too. I do Hispanic Studies and Islamic Studies. Cathy: maybe one day I will bump into you in the Hetherington. I'll be the one forgetting to hand my library books to the security man and setting off alarms.

I dropped out of uni twice, but this time I like it.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Williams College, majors in anthropology and Russian. In a couple weeks I am going to Russia on this program, though, I'm so excited!

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I go to the university of life

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

high school!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I work in a school, and ponder the doings of humankind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I work in a shop, and ponder about humans doing kind things. ;-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Applying next january, Oxford and Duke and maybe Brown? Tennyson stuff.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 12 February 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

neat, i am planning on applying to brown next january too! for anthro/museum stuff. (lots of time between then and now, though, so who knows. maybe i'll get a job instead.)

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 12 February 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oxford is great, especially for English. Also, it has convenient transport links to Swindon, Didcot and Leamington Spa.

― Mike W (caek), Sunday, 12 February 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Zoe, how are you doing Islamic Studies at Glasgow?? They keep that department well hidden... What year are you in? If I see you in the Hetherington, I'll be the one dropping the giant dictionaries on my foot or sheepishly paying extortionate fines.

What do you think of the Hispanic Studies department, eh?

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 12 February 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, they do keep it buried. It's tucked away in the divinity department. I haven't met anyone else doing it, actually. Sometimes I wonder whether I made the whole thing up. In the first year they make you take Arabic and the World Religions module, so I actually know very little about Islam yet.

The Hispanics dept seems better than than the last one I encountered. Language teacher is good but the required standard is lower than I thought it would be so get a bit bored and frustrated and feel like am getting worse, not better. Literature all fine, although not enough tutorials to discuss it properly (not that many people in my class seem that interested anyway). Love the history stuff, and G0nzalez a joy.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Sunday, 12 February 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

And the fines are horrendous! The pony-tailed woman got nearly a fiver out of me last week. They don't give you chance to read the contents page before they want the bugger back.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Sunday, 12 February 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

hay guyz what's going on in this thread

― retarded and gay (bato), Sunday, 12 February 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

I once had to pay a £22 fine for returning two videos a day late!

The Hispanics dept seems better than than the last one I encountered.

Really? I have some difficulty believing it isn't the worst in the world...thankfully I started Spanish from beginners so the fact that the standards are so low worked to my advantage for the first couple of years, because I didn't feel that out of my depth. I love the history stuff too, but it appears to be absent from the Honours options. Love G0nzalez but PD is EVIL. The language tutors are lovely though, its just a shame no one on the whole course gives a shit about anything...

I get really frustrated with how they give us like 8 books to read, and then never ask for any essays on them. Ever.

I could rant about this indefinitely, but I won't hijack the thread any more.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 12 February 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

PD *is* an awful creature, and I can't bear the sight of him, never mind his withering "I can accept that UP TO A CERTAIN POINT" comments. Feel free to email! (Me, not PD.)

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Sunday, 12 February 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

i am suspended from dartmouth until this fall :( :( :(

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 12 February 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

sent you a ridiculous rant, zoe.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 12 February 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

I go to two schools. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. One is a high school and the other is a grad school. Figure that out!

― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 12 February 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

And the fines are horrendous!

As one who works with library reserve books, it's only because we want you people to return them on time and not be lazy gadabouts. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 February 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Ned I'm mentally fitting you for jackboots right now

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 12 February 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

I am an elderly undergrad at Tulane University in New Orleans. I used to have a real major but got sick of doing work and switched to English/Computer Science.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 12 February 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

we have a lot of Tulane students at Rice now.

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 12 February 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

Keep 'em--shorter lines at the Chik-Fil-A for me.

― adam (adam), Monday, 13 February 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

i am a senior at the university of illinois in champaign-urbana.

i am in the cinema studies program.

i will never get a job.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 13 February 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

Nowhere. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

Todd, buck up! My Univ. of Illinois cinema-studies major ex-girlfriend is a lawyer now! Except wait, she doesn't really have a job, either ... haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

3rd Yr Junior Anthropology and Chemistry major at the University of Illinois at Chicago ...

― sonore (sonore), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and it's interesting how many anthro and museum-minded ppl are on this thread (2 ppl...heh). i hope to do research (then teach or curate) or most likely work with conservation or collections mgmt in a research museum.

― sonore (sonore), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

University of Br1ghton, MA in Information Studies. Dissertation: user experience/user education in a language resource centre. C. 10,000 words to go...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 February 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

G0ldsmiths College, U of London, doing my (last year! of my) PhD at the Centre for Cu1tural Studies. I tend to alter the description of my thesis depending on how confident I'm feeling/who I'm talking to, but it's about forms of redundancy in transitional (or, uh... "liminal") public spaces.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 13 February 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

wow, I didn't know that was what it was about sgs. That sounds kind of cool!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 February 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks! I am not very good at talking about it, though I'm getting better. (It usually works like: [Polite person] So Sarah what's your thesis about? [me] *stumbling answer* [polite person]*blank look* ...oh... [me] For example, a revolving door! *blah blah etc* [polite person] Oh! I begin to see...)

I am going to a language resource centre tomorrow, actually, and I'm kind of nervous. I need to do some French and German self-diagnostics.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 13 February 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds interesting

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 13 February 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

You must report back on your experience for my research!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 February 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

another ucl anth kid here. the difference being i'm a big fat dropout (albeit w/ a shaky remit to return).

― suspiria, Monday, 13 February 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

god what smack i chat. there will be no triumphant return for me.

― suspiria, Monday, 13 February 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to know what "forms of redundancy" means

life teaches one these things but one often doesn't realise it

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds like a really interesting thesis that i don't quite understand. if you feel like talking about it in more detail you should start a thread for it! i would, but i don't want to make you feel obligated if you don't want to talk about it.

sonore - hurrah for museum stuff...i'd say we should get together and chat, if it weren't for the thousand miles or so between us :)

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ned I'm mentally fitting you for jackboots right now

Make sure the swaztika is shaped out of book spines.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I am studying in Dublin City University, where I am taking a postgraduate course in International Relations. I will eventually have to do a short thesis on something, but that something has yet to be decided.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm getting an M.S. in Engineering Management from The George Washington University, with a concentration in Information Security Management, a concentration that I might add is no longer available to incoming grad students thanks to cutbacks and the unionization of all adjunct faculty.
I'm planning to do my Master's Thesis on non-batched, indiscrete authentication mechanisms as a way to defeat keylogging and impersonation attacks over the network.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 13 February 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

So have you gone crazy yet? (It happens to all grads.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

And BTW don't take Systems Engineering and Decision Analysis in the same semester, talk about brainfuck. WHICH DIAGRAM AM I SUPPOSED TO BE DRAWING TODAY?

― TOMBOT, Monday, 13 February 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I tend to alter the description of my thesis depending on how confident I'm feeling/who I'm talking to, but it's about forms of redundancy in transitional (or, uh... "liminal") public spaces.

ysi?

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

xpost obv not crazy enough

― TOMBOT, Monday, 13 February 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

What does "ysi" mean Jody?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

third-year undergrad, going for B.A. in cinema studies (with a psychology minor) at new york university. would like to go onto film preservation/archiving, possibly also at NYU (they started a program for that here about three-four years ago) but eastman house is only for a year and probably far less expensive.

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, I thought ILX was like, more elite.

― broseph, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

What does "ysi" mean Jody?

yentl smiles impotently

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Third year law student at Catholic University in DC. SOOOOO looking forward to getting out of the asylum, moving west, and living with my wife again. MAY!!!! COME ON, MAY!!!!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

elite? we're working on it, dude! (ps what constitutes elite?)

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Third year law student at Catholic University in DC. SOOOOO looking forward to getting out of the asylum, moving west, and living with my wife again. MAY!!!! COME ON, MAY!!!!

Hey! Do you ever venture off the law school compound? If so, come say hi. I am in Leahy (computer lab) right now.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

History-oriented BA->Law School->Lawyer->Political Campaign Operative/Roadtrip Coordinator?->Policy Advisor/Professional Raconteur?->Opinion Writer/Guidebook Author?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

Gabbneb was that for the thread about degree/current job relation?

(jbr, I'm afraid I don't know what ysi means either.)

You must report back on your experience for my research!
Archel, I can now report back! Do you have a questionnaire of some sort for me, or shall I email?

RJG, this: life teaches one these things but one often doesn't realise it is true of the redundancies I'm researching.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

oh! sgs, I was there 2000-2001

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

well sgs, technically my research was on students here and it's finished already, but I'm still interested in other places/experiences for background so yes please email me! I'm especially looking at how easy it is to locate and use resources, and the general atmosphere, rather than the resources themselves.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

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