Like Senior year, but funner!
I have been in Ohio for one month and in grad school for one week.
I feel like I have pretty well conquered the bus system at this point. I can get from my apartment to my department building and back without any issues or any help from maps or apps. I also can get pretty much anywhere with the help of a route planning app.
As for graduate classes, I'm a little bit horrified at the difference in feel between undergrad and grad. Mainly, I'm shocked at the fact that half of my professors just completely reject the times they're assigned to teach the class. "I don't want to be here that early/late" has been a sentence I've already heard multiple times and class meeting times have shifted and changed.
As for the reading, none of it has been particularly harder, though there is one class that assigns a lot of it. Overall, I think it's manageable.
In general, I already feel a little bit jaded about other graduate students. One class in particular feels like a lot of people trying to convince each other and the professor that they're smart. But, do you know who I don't feel that way about? My cohort.
As much as I love theatre, I've always felt slightly out of place with theatre people. It's part of why I went into dramaturgy. It was an area of theatre in which I felt like I could think the way I think and I didn't feel out of place. But at the graduate level, the dramaturgs, the designers, the actors, they are all also thinking about theatre in the same way. I love being around people who are excited to talk about theatre through a lens that looks at the past, present, and future.
My cohort is a brilliant group. Three dramaturgs, nine actors, two designers. All of them brilliant. And I am so excited to explore theatre with them.
I feel like I have pretty well conquered the bus system at this point. I can get from my apartment to my department building and back without any issues or any help from maps or apps. I also can get pretty much anywhere with the help of a route planning app.
As for graduate classes, I'm a little bit horrified at the difference in feel between undergrad and grad. Mainly, I'm shocked at the fact that half of my professors just completely reject the times they're assigned to teach the class. "I don't want to be here that early/late" has been a sentence I've already heard multiple times and class meeting times have shifted and changed.
As for the reading, none of it has been particularly harder, though there is one class that assigns a lot of it. Overall, I think it's manageable.
In general, I already feel a little bit jaded about other graduate students. One class in particular feels like a lot of people trying to convince each other and the professor that they're smart. But, do you know who I don't feel that way about? My cohort.
As much as I love theatre, I've always felt slightly out of place with theatre people. It's part of why I went into dramaturgy. It was an area of theatre in which I felt like I could think the way I think and I didn't feel out of place. But at the graduate level, the dramaturgs, the designers, the actors, they are all also thinking about theatre in the same way. I love being around people who are excited to talk about theatre through a lens that looks at the past, present, and future.
My cohort is a brilliant group. Three dramaturgs, nine actors, two designers. All of them brilliant. And I am so excited to explore theatre with them.
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