Good news and bad news
Posted on October 27, 2003 @ 2:49 pm
The good news: My department has finally set me up with an office–a swanky little third-floor affair with a decent enough view. I’m sharing it with two or three other graduate students, but it’s still a definite step up from operating out of our crowded graduate lounge.
The bad news: It looks like I’ll be working as a teaching assistant again next semester, leading discussion sections instead of operating as an independent instructor. I really had my heart set on teaching my own classes in the spring, but I was informed earlier today that some inscrutable graduate school policy would apparently cut my pay in half if I taught next semester–even though working as an independent instructor would require significantly more work than leading discussions. Oh, well…there’s always next fall.
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That’s pretty cool that you’ll actually be working without a net next year.
Yeah, but I was really hoping I’d get to do it in the spring. Leading discussions is fairly easy once you settle into the groove; I’m itching for more of a challenge.