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Jun. 12th, 2002 08:24 pmI'm kinda taking the afternoon off. Two days left of school, and I just have a bit of studying to do. French final tomorrow (cos the regents is too damn easy) and we have a social studies review packet to look at. So I'll do that all later.
Haven't written in a bit.
( I'm not sure if this is interesting if you don't know the people. . . might be though )
at least skim through that? I was just worried cos it was getting long and I'm not sure how it'll be from outside my head. Young Composer's Concert just kicked ass.
I endeared myself to my social studies teacher yesterday. I think it was yesterday. . . She mentioned that she was going to become an anthropologist, but she couldn't and ended up becoming a history teacher. For which, well, she'd probably rather be an anthropologist, but I'm very grateful. She's a great teacher, and I've learned soooo much this year. The first teacher I've had that made me realize there is a point to history and social studies. Cos like, other teachers were too focused on us learning the facts. She does a lot of culture type stuff. Possibly because of her anthropological background? But I've actually gotten important stuff that I'll use out of this class.
Anyway, I've been kinda wondering about this, so after class I went up and asked her how anthropologists earn money. She was rather delighted, and explained to me that you'd be on staff at a university (and she later told me that you could also work for the UN--mad hot!) but she was quick to assure me that it's not like teaching in a high school. whew. lol. And she told me that you get to go and do field research, and told me where all her anthropology friends went. She was going to go to. . . West Africa, I believe, to study market women. She was an Africanist. cooool. But she was kinda scared, and she had a 3 year old daughter at the time. She told me if she was going to give me any advice, it would be not to be scared, to go for it, to take the 3-year-old with you!
Anyway. I'm. . . I don't know. People interest me, anthropology interests me. You guys know that I'm always keeping my options open. I was talking to my dad, and he seemed to think I'd decided on anthropology as a career. Absolutely not. He was telling me that I had a lot of opportunities. I told him, "yeah, I know that, but I don't have a lot of ideas." I just feel better with another idea of what I'm going to be. If inking and all that doesn't work out, there's other things I'm interested in, you know? Gives me kind of a focus.
But I don't know. I've always been under the impression that to become a professor you need to be like, a real expert? (this doesn't really have any grounds, but whatever) It's really really important to me to be doing something I love, but it's also important to me that I'll have a job and an income and I'll be able to support myself.
So I shall see.
Ah yes. We helped Emily out yesterday-- they're having "Banquet" in choir, which is like, this whole good-bye to the seniors and stuff. And each senior has a bear made to represent them. Emily was making David, and Teffi, and Monica. So we went to her house to help make them :D We were a big help and they turned out really well. Will show pictures when we get them.
Two More Days.
Haven't written in a bit.
( I'm not sure if this is interesting if you don't know the people. . . might be though )
at least skim through that? I was just worried cos it was getting long and I'm not sure how it'll be from outside my head. Young Composer's Concert just kicked ass.
I endeared myself to my social studies teacher yesterday. I think it was yesterday. . . She mentioned that she was going to become an anthropologist, but she couldn't and ended up becoming a history teacher. For which, well, she'd probably rather be an anthropologist, but I'm very grateful. She's a great teacher, and I've learned soooo much this year. The first teacher I've had that made me realize there is a point to history and social studies. Cos like, other teachers were too focused on us learning the facts. She does a lot of culture type stuff. Possibly because of her anthropological background? But I've actually gotten important stuff that I'll use out of this class.
Anyway, I've been kinda wondering about this, so after class I went up and asked her how anthropologists earn money. She was rather delighted, and explained to me that you'd be on staff at a university (and she later told me that you could also work for the UN--mad hot!) but she was quick to assure me that it's not like teaching in a high school. whew. lol. And she told me that you get to go and do field research, and told me where all her anthropology friends went. She was going to go to. . . West Africa, I believe, to study market women. She was an Africanist. cooool. But she was kinda scared, and she had a 3 year old daughter at the time. She told me if she was going to give me any advice, it would be not to be scared, to go for it, to take the 3-year-old with you!
Anyway. I'm. . . I don't know. People interest me, anthropology interests me. You guys know that I'm always keeping my options open. I was talking to my dad, and he seemed to think I'd decided on anthropology as a career. Absolutely not. He was telling me that I had a lot of opportunities. I told him, "yeah, I know that, but I don't have a lot of ideas." I just feel better with another idea of what I'm going to be. If inking and all that doesn't work out, there's other things I'm interested in, you know? Gives me kind of a focus.
But I don't know. I've always been under the impression that to become a professor you need to be like, a real expert? (this doesn't really have any grounds, but whatever) It's really really important to me to be doing something I love, but it's also important to me that I'll have a job and an income and I'll be able to support myself.
So I shall see.
Ah yes. We helped Emily out yesterday-- they're having "Banquet" in choir, which is like, this whole good-bye to the seniors and stuff. And each senior has a bear made to represent them. Emily was making David, and Teffi, and Monica. So we went to her house to help make them :D We were a big help and they turned out really well. Will show pictures when we get them.
Two More Days.
