who's got time

so many blogs, so little time...

only four more papers and one more exam...ahhhhhh.... I really need a break. So instead of studying this morning I'm enjoying myself playing over at flickr.

I've had the account for a while but haven't really had a chance to get it organized. take a look.

I've been doing nothing but studying for days. Over the weekend one project was 15+ plus almost 20 pages of data/charts/etc. Another was 10 pages, another 5. I had no idea I could be so productive. What I can hardly believe is that all three papers were for the same class, due on the day of the final exam. This prof really didn't have much clue. The class got out of hand in the first two weeks and after that it never really got back under control.

This course had no prereq's so the students in it came from all different disciplines. It really bugs me that this class therefore became representative of women's studies to all these people. I wouldn't be surprised if they all walked away saying ws is awful, unorganized, etc. It comes back around to the vicious funding circle. The department has no money so can't hire full-time faculty. So they hire sessionals with no experience. So the classes stink. So no one wants to take them. So the department gets no money. The few courses taught as 'women emphasis' from faculty in other departments are good. I had an excellent feminism and philosophy course this semester, have had excellent women's history, gender and sexuality, women and religion. . . but all of these are taught by faculty from other departments.

i don't know the answer. Although I'd like to teach in ws when I'm done I know it's not very practical. Without a phd there's not much hope I could be tenured even if there was $$. And why go through the struggle of the phd when there isn't a job?