My areas of interest are not hot and sexy topics, alas, one more reason it will be difficult to find a job when I graduate, but I digress. I'm okay with being "out of the box" but I was looking forward to graduate school. I hoped that a large uni staffed with faculty who specialize in my area meant that I would actually be able to take courses that were in my specialty, or at least, what I think will be my specialty. Keeping that in mind, I was thoroughly excited that the faculty member who would most likely be my advisor was teaching one of the Methods courses this year. I registered as soon as I could and then emailed hir for the syllabus.
Yeah, not so much. Surprisingly, hir book list was all over the map - literally, chronologically, and thematically. I'm really at a point where I am ready to study what *I* want to study. I have been doing it on my own for so long, I'm just ready to do it in the classroom. I was very disappointed. I emailed the other profs who were teaching Methods courses and found a book list that jives with my interests. Yay. This prof is going to be very challenging, and I've heard scary, but I think it will be good. A former prof of mine had hir during hiz graduate experience at MTU and commented, "The first time I ever felt like a real historian was in hir class." High compliments indeed.
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