Grad School Moments

There are days when I am talking to people outside of my program about what I'm working on and I realize that I really am in grad school and that the things I'm talking about really do sound "intelligent." I call these my "grad school moments."

(although a "grad school moment" has also applied to things such as my addiction to Starbucks or the moment on Friday where I attended a hall program with coffee in hand and danced with said coffee in hand...)

I will give you an example from a conversation I had today:

Andreas: How much work have you guys done?
Me: A lot. We just finished our initial discussion. And now we have split up the different parts. I'm working on finding racial identity development theories and applying them to the case.
Andreas: zzzzz

Two years ago I would have never thought I'd be researching things like this. But these kind of research things have come to excite me. I love learning more about issues of social justice and human differences and applying those theories to my work. I've found a passion within these issues and I love learning about them. My multiculturalism class this semester has really made me think about who I am as a person and how I fit into this larger society we exist in...in addition to thinking about how issues of diversity affect my daily life and the lives of the students I work with.

So today, as I work on my second-to-last case study (almost done!!) these were the things I thought about as I spread books around the table and researched identity development theory. It was a very "grad school" moment for me...and lately I've been realizing how those are going to become less and less as these next few weeks go on and I approach the coveted M.Ed.

26 days. Let's do this.