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*applause!!*

my plan is nearly identical, except i'm targeting operation get-knocked-up at ~9 months before coursework ends (waddling around campus will do my preggo self some good, i'm sure), then 9 months prepping for quals while only having to be on campus to teach, then a fellowship year for the dissertation where i won't have to be on campus on any kind of regular basis, just for meetings & what not.

as a 30-year-old, i have a career under my belt—one that effectively uses an english degree without being a teaching position. as such, i'm prepared to actually mentor future students (something i wouldn't feel capable of doing had i never been out of school before), & i'm also well situated to edit &/or launch an academic journal, which makes me more marketable than if i lacked significant editorial experience. so i feel great about my employment prospects, thanks

thanks for the responses! i'm graduating this semester, so i'd be out of the program by then. it's a split-level course, though, so that could be problematic. i may just ask him about it in person at the department's graduation banquet, since both of the smaller projects that're relevant to his summer course will be finished by then & i'll have something tangible to run past him should he be interested. thanks again!

apologies if this has been covered in the forum elsewhere (i searched but didn't find anything relevant)... i just noticed that one of the summer courses being offered at my current school has a reading list with quite a bit of overlap into some small projects i'm working on now, as well as my larger phd project. so my question is: what's the etiquette/protocol for guest lecturing? i assume the standard practice is that you'd be invited to speak rather than approaching a professor & volunteering to do so, but curious how common (if at all) it is to go against that norm? anyone have any experience with this? thanks!!

yeah, word hit our office around the time i came back from my lunch break. glad to hear that your family's safe & sound, but it definitely changed the mood of april 15th for sure. just awful...

kudos!! OSU is lucky to have you! now get out there & celebrate!!

my dog is quite the fan of beer & irish whiskey

of course you did—well done, you!!

you can say that again! I'm very glad to not be in those shoes. hang in there!!

i've got comps on may 3. prepping for a question on the relationship of postmodernism to modernism & another on the role of ecocriticism in 20th century american lit. good times!!

but bear in mind that the admittedly-not-guaranteed 5th year funding in question is a fellowship. so you're looking at [more likely than not] 5 years of funding in exchange for only 3 years of teaching, right? & if you were to not get a dissertation fellowship, i'm pretty sure they'd extend the TAship a year [at least that's my understanding]

depends on the length of the presentations. most are 12 to 15 minutes, maybe 20. 1 page double-spaced usually averages to 2 minutes spoken, so you just do the math from there.

so many awesome posts, so very few upvotes! i shall celebrate in all of your honor by watching evil dead.

i think i see what you did there, & i like it.