Course selection
Very few of the cogsci courses interest me. The ones that might all seem to conflict with courses in my department that interest me more. I feel, though, that I should be taking them. And I am right about that: I shouldn’t just take courses within my department. I’m trying to see what Library Science (or whatever it’s called here) has — my mother’s just finishing up her master’s in library science (back at Canada U — it was fun when we were both students there at the same time), and she’s told me enough about some of her courses that I’m intrigued.
Of course their page at my school makes my department’s page look informative.
My meeting with my advisor is next Tuesday morning. I really need to figure out about this soon. True, this is what he should be helping me with, but given how I’ve gotten most of my advice (from someone a year ahead, who got it from someone a year ahead of him, who got it from someone a year ahead of him, who got it from her advisor) I’m not feeling very confident. He’s newly grad advisor, he’s newly tenured, he has a year-old daughter, and his wife’s pregnant again. Though he got me 450$ to get to my conference in March (I also got money from the conference itself: the two put together almost covered both conferences I went to).
And then Wednesday I will drive home so that Thursday I can go with my family to Maine[1] — and hopefully see people Wed night. Beach again! I’m counting down. Even if a bunch of people I don’t want to see will be there — I don’t need to see them but once in a Thurs-Mon/Tues weekend, which is fine. It’s sad: A and I used to be very good friends, but as we grew up I realised I don’t actually like her. I’m sad that we’re not friends; or perhaps I’m sad that I don’t want to be her friend anyhow.
[1] Unless I need to come back to Dullness after Maine, in which case I will drive to Maine directly from here.