), have had to come up with something I’d like to be doing next year. And seeing as said degree ain’t really worth anything on its own, higher education is practically the only option. (I could of course get some kind of low wage job, or try to come up with a brilliant business concept, but I fear I’m not really suited for any of those lines of work.)
So, next year, I’ll be studying one of the following:
English (one year) at NTNU.
English (Bachelor studies) at NTNU.
Religious studies (one year) at NTNU.
Or Literary studies (one year) at NTNU.
As should be obvious, I have abandoned all things even resembling ambition, and am now scrambling for the leftovers. I.e. an education as a teacher. Even though I, ironically, hate both children and young people. Most of all the latter, as the former have a better excuse for their stupidity and ignorance.
I’ve still got three or four days in which to add things, and I can rearrange the lits ’till June 1 or something, but seeing as I’ve wasted history on this ridiculous “Scocial Studies” degree, I doubt I’ll be adding anything.
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Good luck. And, if possible, have fun. ^^
Me, for the upcoming term, seeing as I too am finishing a useless bachelor this summer, it’s pretty much looking like this:
Priority one: Half-a-year of History at 200-level.
Priority two: Half-a-year of English at 200-level.
Priority three: Starting on a Master’s degree in Religious Science.
Priority four: Archelogy at 100-level
Priority five: Literary studies at 100-level.
Priority six: Anthropology at 100-level.
Priority seven: Pedagogy
Of course, Everything below four is pretty much redundant, as there is very tiny chances indeed of my not managing to fit any of the top four - or even top one ;P - into my schedule.
12. April 2007 @ 18:08 ( Permalink )
Well, taking your academic achievements during the last couple of years into consideration, I’d hazard a guess that you ought to be able to press 90 points of 200-level History and English into one year…
12. April 2007 @ 18:14 ( Permalink )
That’s… pointless. As you only need 30. XD
12. April 2007 @ 18:16 ( Permalink )
Yeah, but you usually take 45 per semester, right? And that makes 90 in a year. 45 points of History, and 45 points of English. Or do you only plan on taking one semester in total?
12. April 2007 @ 19:44 ( Permalink )
This is just the one term, yes, much as I’d like to waste another term on courses I’d like to take but have no use for after it, I can’t justify it, so after this one, I’ll apply for master’s in either Religious Science or possibly History.
12. April 2007 @ 19:53 ( Permalink )
I see.
You’ve got any ideas about possible themes to write about in your Master thesis, then?
12. April 2007 @ 22:05 ( Permalink )
Not really. Though I should start writing down ideas, I suppose. I hope something comparative. I had a thought on looking at similarities and differences between how one percived non-gods with cults in relation to normal gods, but it’s probably either too broad or too narrow (too much to look at or too little to find out). Another thing I’d like is to look at the use of mythical and religious concepts and characters in modern popular culture, but I am unsue if this will be acceptably “religious science”-y to work on.
Problem is, I should probably have another ten suggestions at hand…
12. April 2007 @ 22:27 ( Permalink )
I don’t think my sister finally decided on a theme before a month ago or so, and she was then over half a year into her Master studies. So I suppose you still have some time.
12. April 2007 @ 22:56 ( Permalink )
Broder: jeg var faktisk ganske rask i min avgjørelse; mange bruker skremmende mye lengre tid.
Og det sitatet ditt om barn og unge skal jeg klippe ut og lagre et eller annet sted så jeg kan stikke det i ansiktet ditt resten av livet! (Det fine med slektskap: livslangt bekjentskap
)
Den tredje tingen: Hvorfor har du gått vekk fra ideen om en ny bachelor? Jeg ville heller valgt nordisk og blitt norsklærer enn religionsvitenskap. Sistnevnte står i fare for å bli nedlagt ved NTNU, dessuten tror jeg norsk er et fag det er lettere å holde ut med et helt liv, enn gjennomgangen av de ulike religionene herfra og til evigheten
Husker med gru den traurige gjennomgangen av de store religionene på videregående med Bitten…! Dessuten skjer det mer i løpet av et år på litteraturfronten, det er større utvikling på mikronivå; årsplanene forandrer seg litt fortere siden det er større tilgang på nye tekster.
12. April 2007 @ 23:36 ( Permalink )
Gosh, I hope so.
12. April 2007 @ 23:36 ( Permalink )
“Hvorfor har du gått vekk fra ideen om en ny bachelor?”
Because I’d be silly to spend three years on a bachelor when I get presicely the same from a year of study, especially when I have no intentions of taking a Master’s degree.
“Jeg ville heller valgt nordisk og blitt norsklærer enn religionsvitenskap.”
That’s your loss. Norwegian has to me always been the Nightmare Come True. I abhor Norwegian grammar, and I dislike most of what I remember from the Norwegian curriculum. Religion, however, is endlessly fascinating to me, perhaps because of my atheistic mindset.
And remember, where you have endless rehearsals of the religions with Bitten, I have the same of the motherfucking Norwegian “classic” literature with Leistad, and Norwegian grammar with Moen in Junior High.
“Dessuten skjer det mer i løpet av et år på litteraturfronten, det er større utvikling på mikronivå; årsplanene forandrer seg litt fortere”
And that’s a good thing, because I’ve always been so into contemporary non-genre literature…?
12. April 2007 @ 23:57 ( Permalink )
Oh, and dearest sister, don’t you think you ought to practice some of that English soon?
Nice to have you back, in any case. Too bad we haven’t been able to get on with Angel this week.
12. April 2007 @ 23:58 ( Permalink )
“Too bad we haven’t been able to get on with Angel this week.”
This sentence reminds me of “I want you, Lindsey.”
Thinking about rephrasing that.
13. April 2007 @ 00:53 ( Permalink )
As for Norwegian vs. Religion, as far as teaching is concerned, I’d much prefer a subject where everything stays more or less the same every year to one where I’d have to spend energy and worse yet, time, on getting up to date on the latest beuracratic inventions and stupidities every second term.
Then again, I’m looking at this from a perspective where teaching is something you do to earn a living if you run out of all other non-manual-labour non-office-rat-desk-job options, someone who WANTS to be one would probably look at it differently.
13. April 2007 @ 01:01 ( Permalink )
“Thinking about rephrasing that.”
Some even worse phrasings ran through my mind as I was typing, so I’m pretty satisfied with how things turned out.
“someone who WANTS to be one”
No one in their right minds WANT to be a teacher. But then again, many people aren’t quite right in the head, so…
As for what you said in the preceeding paragraph, I couldn’t agree more.
13. April 2007 @ 16:52 ( Permalink )
Indeed. This is why I’m sceptical of a year of history apparently being acceptable grounds for teaching samfunnskunnskap - I so do not want to end up in a job where I’m expected to pay attention. To anything.
13. April 2007 @ 17:03 ( Permalink )
“Norwegian grammar with Moen in Junior High”
Stakars liten! Hadde glemt det… Men hadde k.r.l. (det eneste året jeg hadde det) med samme dame… :-P!
Loki, har du også tanker om å bli lærer som en nødløsning?
Dere to er skremmende! Et yrke er en ting man må ha resten av livet; er det ikke et poeng å velge noe man er villig til å legge litt innsats i? Den eneste grunnen til at jeg kunne tenke meg å bli lærer er for å formidle noe jeg er engasjert i til andre og samtidig ha muligheten til å utvikle mine egne kunnskaper videre…
13. April 2007 @ 18:21 ( Permalink )
Okay, overnfortingen er skrevet av meg; er bare ikke vant til å skrive på en datamaskin der navnet mitt ikke kommer automatisk…
13. April 2007 @ 18:22 ( Permalink )
“er det ikke et poeng å velge noe man er villig til å legge litt innsats i?”
Jo, but try as I might, kjem ikkje på noko yrke der eg ville vore villig til det.
13. April 2007 @ 18:38 ( Permalink )
For å klargjere: Det einaste eg egentleg kunne tenke meg å gjere for resten av livet som eg aktivt ville LIKT er å studere og gå på førelesningar. Og det tener ein ikkje akkurat til livets opphald på.
13. April 2007 @ 18:39 ( Permalink )
Du, Loki kunne vel søkt om noe stipendiat for å forske? Men, da måtte du vel fortsatt jobbe litt… Ellers ville jeg kanskje trodd at bibliotekar i et høl uten folk kunne vært et alternativ?
Og for dere tre lærerspirer, jeg ser ikke bort i fra at jeg kunne tenke meg å være lærer selv, så jeg er nok ikke riktig bra i hodet…
13. April 2007 @ 22:24 ( Permalink )
Det kan eg, om eg får A på master, men då må eg drive research og sånt, og det er ikkje den delen av studentlivet eg likar; eg likar å gå på førelesning, eg likar å bli undervist, så det blir fortsatt ikkje noko eg VIL men berre noko eg IKKJE VIL I MINDRE GRAD enn eg ikkje vil andre ting.
13. April 2007 @ 22:42 ( Permalink )
“Det einaste eg egentleg kunne tenke meg å gjere for resten av livet som eg aktivt ville LIKT er å studere og gå på førelesningar. Og det tener ein ikkje akkurat til livets opphald på.”
Amen til det, ja!
14. April 2007 @ 10:09 ( Permalink )
Må man få A på master for å få stipend til å forske videre…? Okay, da må jeg intensivere arbeidet en smule framover…
14. April 2007 @ 10:14 ( Permalink )
Ikkje om du kjem inn på eit spesialprogram der ein jobber med meir eller mindre eksakt det du skreiv om på master, då blir det så mange færre søkere at du klarer deg med mindre. Men dei aller, aller, faller fleste åpne stipendiat er det så stor pågang på at du slett ikkje treng komme inn sjølv om du har A…
I alle fall er det sånn ved HF i Bergen.
14. April 2007 @ 13:14 ( Permalink )
*aller
faller? Wtf? Freudian slip? XD
14. April 2007 @ 13:16 ( Permalink )
According to the flat mate of mine who’s finishing his Master this spring, it’s the same here. Without an A, or in the very least a B, you pretty much don’t stand a chance of getting a research position. And even with an A, you’d have to be ludicrously lucky.
14. April 2007 @ 15:19 ( Permalink )
Det siste der er jeg klar over: NTNU har ikke råd til å subsidiere litteraturforskere lenger, uansett karakterer…
14. April 2007 @ 17:46 ( Permalink )