My grad school experience in a nutshell
I'm the kind of person who is pained deeply if I think there is a party going on and I'm not part of it. (Flash to very young me in angst as I knew my parents were watching the 1984 Olympics with their friends and actually expected me to go to bed.)
So being the only doctoral student in musicology in the entire state of Louisiana is sort of like that. Hey! I can't have a party on my own here.
Now the theorists are starting a weekly discussion forum (like about an article or something) that I gather is supposed to be student-driven. The point being that there's enough of them to do that. Sure I and the one musicology professor who attends Packed-Lunch Club are probably welcome to participate, but face it, the discussions will be theory-driven. There's a reason why I'm a musicologist and not a theorist, though there's enough overlap, that I'm sure I'll be interested in what's going on.
I thought that we were supposed to have things like that in grad school: just another of those Unfulfilled Expectations that have come to characterize my time here. Chalk it up next to: I thought I was supposed to have colleauges. And: I thought historiography was a familiar thing in a musicology classroom.
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Aww, your feeling left out makes me sad. I know I would feel exactly the same way if our positions were reversed. I thought about you when Dr. Smyth brought up the forum idea the other day, and I wished for you that the other two musicology students were more involved at school. I know they're not Ph.D. students, but still... it could be better for you.
By the way, I miss you. One of these days, I'm going to blow my office hours, and we'll go to Highland together again as in days of old. I can pretend to work on my thesis, and you can draw lines on medieval music. =) We may not be in the same discipline, but we're still the only girls, and we girls have to stick together. This semester is doing its best to separate us, and I've had enough! Blah!
Posted by: Erica | 28.02.05 20:00