Year One Done
Year 1 of grad school is done. (okay, minus one presentation and a couple hours of paper revisions). Years 2-5/6/hopefully-not-longer-than-that are up and coming. It feels soooooo good to have a year behind me. A year of knowing what grad school is like and a year of knowledge in a field I'm theoretically going to spend the rest of my working years discovering. This is how it looked. first semester: I sat in classes writing down words I didn't understand. And looking up those words. And still not completely understanding. But laughing with everyone else all the same when someone would make a comment like "Wow, that's so Hegelian!" Which happened at least once a week. Here are some other expressions you might have missed while you were busy studying history as an undergrad but can throw into your speech to sound more intelligent: metaphysical phenomonology aesthetic consciousness hermeneutics philology fragmentation coherences o