So the date of my admissions visit is drawing near (I'm supposed to do the whole wine&dine this coming Monday and Tuesday), and I'm starting to get really worried about meeting my cohort. Now normally, I wouldn't really care so much about this sort of thing, but given the fact that there are only ten other people in my class and I'm going to be with them for the next six years, I think it's pretty fair for me to freak out. In no particular order, my fears are:
1) I'm going to be the youngest person in my cohort (and not youngest like oh hey, we're separated by half a year; more like oh hey, you took three years off after your undergrad, got a masters, and now you're six years older than me and we can't relate to each other at all)
2) They're going to be standard, boring English people (aka those interested in dead white men and little else. I can't help it, my academic background -soc/anth and women's studies- makes me really, really wary of these sorts of people!) and my head will fall off when I try to talk to them (alright, maybe I'm more concerned about the first half of this sentence than the second...)
3) They will be super legit and scarily intellectual and find me totally frivolous/trivial for loving fashion and buying pretty clothes and having an insatiable appetite for things like PerezHilton and ANTM and so on and so forth (the list of the trashy celebrity blogs and reality shows that I keep up with is both utterly phenomenal and utterly embarrassing)
4) They will be old, boring, and engaged/married, and I will be forced to troll around the campus, desperately looking for people who will be my friends and go out to clubs and bars with me (WOE)
Granted some of my worries are admittedly ridiculous, but I can't help it! I'm seriously so nervous to meet everyone, and I just hope that I can find one person (alright, maybe I'm really aiming for three or four. High standards!) who I can really get along/engage with. We'll see how it goes. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, and I will definitely keep you all updated.
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Ha, from what I can tell you'd fit in great with my cohort - we have ANTM watch parties and dissect media texts all day long, justifying it as "research" of course, but really it's all pleasure.
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