Six days and counting until the first qualifier (Micro). I have been spending my days and nights cooped up in the econ library with M, studying for hours on end.
The couches are a good thing. Every now and then (usually around 3) is a good time for a nap. I'm just hoping none of my prof's walk in.
M got a new laptop and went to the video library to get some DVD's to check it out. Naturally, he rented an Aishwarya Rai movie (he's Indian and he's male... so therefore he is a big fan of hers), and was walking up to the library with it. As he was coming up the stairs a certain jovial micro prof (who is writing a fourth of our qual) stopped him with the graduate advisor (we think soon-to-be-department chair, or that's the word on the street... and by street I mean the coffee machine, and by word I mean what we gossip about since we have no social lives to speak of) and suddenly started giving M a hard time (for the fun of it... as he does). "I never see you work, M! You are always slinking around the halls, and it seems like you never get any work done... what is that in your hand?"
And then of course the prof's see his Rai DVD. It should be noted they are also Indian, also male, and also big fans of her... uh... work.
I think it took the prof's a good four minutes before they could breathe again from the laughing, and M slinked back into the library to hide.
It's been going around the department by the way. Everyone now has a story affixed to them of what they are up to other than studying. Not even M could avoid that. J and his wife, K and his tennis player, Mama-Turk and her baby, and me and my undergrad.
K had a similar story last year. Stressed out from Quals and needing a break, feeling like he'd never pass, his life would end, blah blah blah (a common sentiment these days around 8 PM), he decided to go see a movie. Where he ran into not only his micro prof, but also one of his macro prof's. The Macro prof, being a bit of a joker started in on him about how he should be studying right now, and K, taking it too seriously complained that he just could not study anymore.
"Oh no?" the macro prof said. "Not another subject."
"Have you studied -insert subject here-?"
"No, I'm not there yet?"
"Well I'll let you in on a secret... it's guaranteed to be on the qualifier."
There are two differing accounts here. According to K, he walked, with a dignified and calm demeanor, out of the theater to go study.
According to the faculty, he ran as fast as he could out the exit, and most likely ran from the theater all the way home. ... wow... we have no lives.
Really want these tests to be over. Done reviewing Micro I. Half done reviewing Macro I. Fourth of the way through Micro II. The Macro II review doesn't start until Thursday or Friday. By "done" I mean I've outlined the whole chapter and worked at least half the homework problems. So that means a 30 minutes review everyday on certain subjects that aren't more "done" than others.
3 comments:
hang on Q...D
Keep at it, bro. You'll get there!
Go quijote! We're sending good thoughts your way.
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