A good program can make up for a host of sins, but if it's the only good thing about life for those years, that would suck.
Well, I can't argue with that. I think, for me, the program matters more than the place. I can learn to get along anywhere (though the first two years are always kinda dicey). I can't learn the same information just anywhere, though. I transferred as an undergrad, and spent two years depressed and miserable because I was taking graduate classes as a college freshman/sophomore, and I was doing better than the grad students. It was ridiculous; I'm embarrassed to have to admit that.
That is so strange! I went to Kenyon, and our requirements allows us to do practically anything we wanted, as long as we covered roughly two centuries somehow and didn't stay entirely in Brit or American lit. I didn't take any medieval lit or Victorian BritLit, for example. (I was a creative writing concentrator, but that only affected my electives, not the requirements.) That's too bad that they made you take a bunch of classes you weren't interested in.
I am so, so jealous of you right now, I can't even describe it. I hated those classes with a passion, hated them. I kept petitioning the board to change the recs, but nooo, our culture as a colonized nation must be catered to!
Okay, whining aside, seriously. One year-long British lit to the 18th century class required. One on Milton, one on Shakespeare, one on Chaucer. One *modern* Brit lit course. One American lit course prior to the 1900s. (This was the only one I enjoyed.) And then, of course, your electives, all of which I did in either creative writing or Afro-Am lit, which were fabulous. I was thinking about grad school in Afro-Am lit, but so few courses were available to me that it would be a long shot getting in. As is, I'm probably going to do a thesis contrasting Afro-Am lit with Latin American lit. They've got a lot in common, most likely due to Europe's colonization efforts overseas.
On another note, that book looks hilarious, and probably life-saving.
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Date: 2010-06-01 04:02 am (UTC)Well, I can't argue with that. I think, for me, the program matters more than the place. I can learn to get along anywhere (though the first two years are always kinda dicey). I can't learn the same information just anywhere, though. I transferred as an undergrad, and spent two years depressed and miserable because I was taking graduate classes as a college freshman/sophomore, and I was doing better than the grad students. It was ridiculous; I'm embarrassed to have to admit that.
That is so strange! I went to Kenyon, and our requirements allows us to do practically anything we wanted, as long as we covered roughly two centuries somehow and didn't stay entirely in Brit or American lit. I didn't take any medieval lit or Victorian BritLit, for example. (I was a creative writing concentrator, but that only affected my electives, not the requirements.) That's too bad that they made you take a bunch of classes you weren't interested in.
I am so, so jealous of you right now, I can't even describe it. I hated those classes with a passion, hated them. I kept petitioning the board to change the recs, but nooo, our culture as a colonized nation must be catered to!
Okay, whining aside, seriously. One year-long British lit to the 18th century class required. One on Milton, one on Shakespeare, one on Chaucer. One *modern* Brit lit course. One American lit course prior to the 1900s. (This was the only one I enjoyed.) And then, of course, your electives, all of which I did in either creative writing or Afro-Am lit, which were fabulous. I was thinking about grad school in Afro-Am lit, but so few courses were available to me that it would be a long shot getting in. As is, I'm probably going to do a thesis contrasting Afro-Am lit with Latin American lit. They've got a lot in common, most likely due to Europe's colonization efforts overseas.
On another note, that book looks hilarious, and probably life-saving.