dealing with it
From: Mark H. Rossman. (2002). Negotiating Graduate School, Second Edition. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.
"...times come when you are faced with situations over which you can exert little or no control, such as not knowing what material to study for the final exam or what will be on the comprehsneive exam, sitting through a terribly boring course with an instructor who rambles on forever, or working in isolation on online courses" (p. 43)...and...
"Graduate students constantly face uncertainties commonly associated wth almost every graduate program that ever existed" (p. 42).
Sometimes I just feel so uninterested in what I am reading. It sounds like the same thing, over and over and over again. The same vague, nebulous concepts that pass for theory. How can I possibly use this to help me get a job in my field? These concepts are so booooring! It is not that I don't like the field of community development. I agree with the principles of it, as opposed to the top down approach of traditional planning, wholeheartedly. I just think that I would make a better technocrat than I would a community organizer. Being a community organizer requires building relationships, something at which I am inadept, and always have been. How to overcome this?