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Letters of Intention are Evil
Oct. 26th, 2006 10:47 pmI feel so. . . depressed? That's not really the word, but I've definitely hit a self-esteem low. Can I just say that applying to graduate school is evil. Part of the problem of course is that I want to study anthropology. I want to go to UCLA for several reasons, but one of them was because when I was thinking about graduate school a year ago, I saw statistics that made it look like they had a really big graduate program. Today I found other statistics that made it look like it was the same size as the graduate program I applied for two years ago and was turned down for. The idea of competing again for 15 or so spots with 150 other applicants doesn't appeal to me. But I'm having a really hard time finding what other schools have a graduate program in anthropology so that I can hedge my bets by applying to more than one place.
But the worst part, the part that makes me kind of angry is that everything I've read says one of the most important parts of your letter of intention is telling them what you intend to do with your degree once you have it. Okay, so that may seem kind of obvious, but I want a Master's in Anthropology, I don't want to treat it like a vocational certificate. Graduating from graduate school isn't the same as graduating from bartending school. And the thing is I want to study Anthropology just because I want to learn. Shouldn't that be enough? Can't I just love knowledge and be fascinate by the subject?
I think tomorrow I'm going to forget about graduate school for the day, and maybe get some fic written.
But at least I have Halloween to look forward to. I'm going the cheep route costume wise this year, I'm going to be a gypsy because if you put together all the non-black clothes in my closet, you pretty much end up with gypsy clothes. But the best part is that I feel like my spiritual life is moving in a positive direction after being stalled for a while, and on Tuesday night I'm going to the Witches Ball. Yay!
But the worst part, the part that makes me kind of angry is that everything I've read says one of the most important parts of your letter of intention is telling them what you intend to do with your degree once you have it. Okay, so that may seem kind of obvious, but I want a Master's in Anthropology, I don't want to treat it like a vocational certificate. Graduating from graduate school isn't the same as graduating from bartending school. And the thing is I want to study Anthropology just because I want to learn. Shouldn't that be enough? Can't I just love knowledge and be fascinate by the subject?
I think tomorrow I'm going to forget about graduate school for the day, and maybe get some fic written.
But at least I have Halloween to look forward to. I'm going the cheep route costume wise this year, I'm going to be a gypsy because if you put together all the non-black clothes in my closet, you pretty much end up with gypsy clothes. But the best part is that I feel like my spiritual life is moving in a positive direction after being stalled for a while, and on Tuesday night I'm going to the Witches Ball. Yay!
