GRADUATE SCHOOL
I just started my very first semester of graduate school! I'm getting my Master's of Science in Anthropology, emphasis in CRM/Archaeology! It's very exciting.
As I begin this, I have come to realize that the way archaeology is taught is completely backward. They teach you all the theory first and all the practice in Graduate school. So the skills you physically need to work you learn on your own, most likely using incorrect methods or some overly elaborate process, and then when you go back to school you learn the right way to do it. And, the theory didn't matter anyway because you were never writing the reports or doing the the proposals and you have forgotten it! That may just be my experience though because I started as an anthropology major NOT an archaeology major, so there was nothing but theory there.
But, happily, I roll along. LOTS of reading, which in my old age I can mostly understand, lots of projects being dangled before me, lots of new vocab to learn, and a few bubbles being burst as well. But that all comes with the territory.
I continually remind myself of this lovely manta I learned in Mary Kay training. "I can not do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do, I must do!"
The weather up here is FREEZING... well, where I come from this is winter, but here its supposedly just fall. I went very quickly from my tank tops to layers and long sleeves... it's even too cold for my flippy floppies!
But despite the dramas of moving, settling in, recovering, and still mourning, I believe I am settling in nicely.
Now... if I can just figure out how to use this crazy robotic library, I'll be set.
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