Wednesday, 5 October 2011

New Library Home

  • LSE professors have an interesting way of assigning reading.  Rather than require specific chapters or pages, they prefer to say things like: "Week 1 Required Texts - _____, _____, ____, ____, ____.  Week 1 Highly Recommended Texts - ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____."  This is usually accompanied by my personal favorite: "Have a general understanding of the following texts."  So basically, know everything. Got it.
  • Hence, meet my new home, the LSE Library.  Looks like a cruise ship, right?  Wrong.  It's more like the Titanic of studying.  Everything seems smooth and lovely--until you hit the iceberg of reality.  Boom.  Welcome to Week 2.
  • Study groups are key.  They keep you on your toes as far as reading in a timely fashion because you don't want to be dead weight AND they ultimately lessen the reading load.  Love this.
  • 1 year masters courses require almost immediate attention to job hunting for next year.  Hate this.

2 comments:

  1. Love the extended metaphor.. didn't see that iceberg part coming.

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  2. I totally saw the iceberg thing coming, and really felt as though you could have done more.

    Also, i don't think you should tell people that you think the library looks like a cruise ship - that's a keep to yourself comment.

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