new school, research statement notes, Second Shepherds’ Play, a bit of whinging
I’ve now relocated to my new graduate program and classes begin tomorrow. I’m absolutely intimidated by the first-year courseload, but I keep telling myself it will be ok since I won’t have all those composition papers to grade that filled every waking moment of my final semester in my MA program. (I assigned six papers to my comp classes last term. Never, ever again.)
I’m working on a research statement for an application I need to finish by Tuesday so I can go to a workshop in December. I’ve never written one of these before, and I find it easiest to begin any project in an unfamiliar genre by treating the first draft as a blog post. (I don’t know how I ever got anything written before wordpress and livejournal, really I don’t.)
So here’s my draft, to an imaginary audience unfamiliar with the “The Second Shepherds’ Play” (this will change).
Slouching Towards Extimacy 