For this relief, much thanks.
To all and sundry who’ve read thus far and posted encouraging and enlightening responses: word.
I promise that–at some point in the semester–this blog will stop being about my petty anxieties and start taking some real shape. Once I decide on a purpose/direction/inspiration for it, that is.
Question to those grad school vets out there in the audience. This may seem a stupid question, but it’s been bugging me and here, in the (relative anonymity) of the electronic ether, I may pose my query: Do you feel–since work alongside tenured profs and all–we should be on a first-name basis with them, or do you feel that, as mere doctoral candidates, we owe them the repsect of addressing them as "Dr. Blabla?" I suppose it’s more their decision; nevertheless, I can’t yet convince myself to go up to Dr. Pudaloff and say: "Yo, Ross, whassup?"
The consequences of such impudence boggle my mind.
Whatever they prefer. Everybody was first name at my last school, here, I’ve got no idea.
And have you SEEN my last name? My relatives don’t agree on how to pronounce it, so I don’t ever expect my students to. I ask them to use the first name, and appreciate it when they do, so if my teachers ask the same of me, fine–I can deal with that. I am NOT Miss/Ms Sajdyk, and I never bloody well will be.
And as for the worries–hey… they get you notes right?
Comment by Jill — 07 September, 2006 @ 1:03 am