Cap and Gown
Please stop bothering me with a degree. I just want to take the same writing classes over and over again. And art classes. I want the art minor to switch back to the awesome program. The one with figure and spatial drawing. Not the lame-o program it is now. I want to be a perpetual student. The kind that never takes tests, but just bumbles around taking the most delicious classes and only working part-time for forever. I want to take all the art history classes. I want to re-take the art history class I already took because it was AMAZING and because I was absent on the day we covered Rodin. I would also like to take an archeology class. And one of those specialty classes that are all about one person. A semester on Chaucer, on Milton, on Dostoevsky. I want to re-take the second half of British lit from Dr. Eastley just so I can hear the recording of Ted Hughes reading "Jaguar" which Hughes pronounces "jag-U-ah." I want to take Shakespeare from Duerden again--but covering different plays because he made us read each play twice and watch it once. And because he gave that speech at the beginning of the semester that made me all emotional-nostalgic and happy I was an English major. I would like to put my student loans on hold--looming, but kept at bay by a graduation date that never comes.
No--I don't plan on being a teacher. I knew you were going to ask that once I said I that I'm an English major.
No--I don't plan on being a teacher. I knew you were going to ask that once I said I that I'm an English major.
posted by Sylvia Louise at
12:35 PM
4 Comments:
my plan is to get a degree in special ed, teach for a while, and then go BACK to school and take all the english classes i want! somehow, being a special ed teacher will earn me a zillion dollars so i'll never have to graduate. awesome.
I think I'm commenting on your other post here too.
Seriously. History classes can take a hike.
I only like History of the English language, thank you.
I kind of overdid things when I was in college, so I was ready to be done. But don't you remember what happens after this? Graduate school. I think it will be so much better, because then you have a whole slew of people in your classes that believe the same thing you do: perpetual studentness is awesome.
I definitely do not recommend teaching as a way to flit happily from class to class, as you rightly presume. Once you start teaching, there is no time to learn.
Mariko--grad school? You're going to go?
C-I don't see anything wrong with your plan. Do it!
I want to. I've always wanted to. My recommendation is to do it before you have a baby. Plenty of people said, "Oh, you can do both, or just later."
HA! I'd go back and spit in their faces if it wasn't so unladylike
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