Semester Blues

It's amazing how despite all the griping I've come this far in the semester. I know it's not of my own doing. I have not been a good student this semester and have griped about all the philosophical round-and-round arguments/discussions we seem to have week after week. I can't believe I don't even turn off my phone anymore during class. I really have to have an attitude adjustment. But I just can't seem to get over the fact that even if our "foundation" of sorts is necessary in some way we are not knee-deep in the issues that face our field as well as our society from a social welfare perspective. Social justice, social change, and social action are largely absent from our discussions and our classes. Research experience is at the periphery and yet we're expected to become good researchers at the end of our program, probably as a result of the struggle we go through when we conduct our dissertation.

I think this semester for me has been a challenge in so many ways: 1) perseverance, 2) how to live in the here and now (i.e. live where I am instead of where I was in the summer), 3) not lose sight of my end goal (would that be perseverance too?), and 4) have faith even when the path is not illuminated. Still I groan every week I have to go to class, and am anticipating the end of at least one of them if not both. Fortunately, December is just around the corner and hopefully my semester blues will just be that - SEMESTER blues, to be over soon. December 10th can't come soon enough (the end of one class) and December 25th (when everything is over and I will be on a plane to Los Angeles).

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Mitzi and Jerry said…
Hang in there!!
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