{"id":2680,"date":"2011-03-21T15:18:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2011-03-21T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:18:52","slug":"grad-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/grad-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Grad School!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Fall, I will be an official<\/em> Grad School student in the History Department at Tufts University. Which sounds pretty impressive, until you remember that that the only thing that’s really changing is the official<\/em> part of that sentence. I’ve been taking classes for a few years now… but now I will be enrolled in a program, I can register for classes before the start of the semester, and they’ll have to (eventually) give me a degree. I also had to fork over 300 bucks in order to accept their acceptance (and so it begins…).<\/p>\n

I’m going to be studying American History, and I’m pretty sure that I want to focus on american newspapers. The professor that I’ve been working with this semester already has about 27 different ideas for thesis topics. And that was before I got the official notice that I’d been accepted into his program.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for you, dear blog readers? Not much, although I will probably continue to neglect Book Report Friday (it’s pretty hard to read a reviewable book a week when you’re already reading a ton of books for school). And I will occasionally be writing some posts about interesting events in history. Folks seemed to like my posts about the Suez Canal Crisis and Earnest Shackleton.<\/p>\n

In the short term, this doesn’t mean that much for me. I’m going to continue working my same job and they’re going to continue paying for my same classes. At some point, I’ll write a thesis. And then, at some point, they’ll give me a diploma. Hopefully, I’ll have learned a thing or two along the way. I’m in my fourth class right now and I’m taking two classes over the Summer. You only need 10 credits to graduate, so I’m heading in the right direction. Two more classes next year and then a thesis.<\/p>\n

And then… who knows? Probably nothing, but I’ll have a free Masters. And that’s nothing to complain about!<\/p>\n

So… what should I do to celebrate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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