Sad Hatter

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to laugh at myself pretty hard. I mean look at us, we’re all so damn pretentious. We’re not even in grad school yet and we talk like we’re the next Ed. Saids. Is it just me, or do we (English students, especially) tend to be a lil’ too cocky? For starters, we’re all applying to the same top 15 schools (lol)—surely some of us (hey, I’ll volunteer to go first if you won’t) think a little too highly of ourselves, no? And it's not just that; it's how we refer to our interests. We've all picked up these heavy academic accents; we talk about "discourse" and "conversations" and " examinations" and "readings." Not that these are bad things to talk about, but maybe we do it too much in ordinary situations? Ughh, it's almost like there's too much pressure to become academics before we can be students. Whatever happened to wanting to learn things in grad schools. (Don't get me started on how ridiculous SoPs have to be these days; and matching writing samples? Gimme a break! If I knew exactly what I wanted to study I wouldn't need to explore anything in grad school; and if I knew everything about what I wanted to study, I wouldn't need to study it). Hey, I have an idea, why don't we all just write our dissertations right now? Who needs grad school? We already know everything ... I was talking to my friend the other day, and I asked her if she thought it was unhealthy that we take ourselves so seriously…I can’t remember her answer exactly, but I think she agreed. Should we sometimes remind ourselves that grad school is not all there is in life? That it’s a process? That we need to have other interests and not let our love of literature and criticism overtake our lives and turn us into a cult (we don’t want to be like the theater kids, now do we?) We’re always analyzing everything and talking about different readings or different contexts. It all comes back to postcolonialism, lol.... Oh well, just sharing a thought on the beast that is this crazy process and the little monster grad students-elect that it creates… Sorry, maybe I'm just frustrated by these schools that haven't called me yet. Um, ok, ever...

Oh, Boy. Has anyone checked the online app? Can you tell if anything has changed in your account?