I'm sure I've graced you with this otherwise graceless theory before, but, I'll do so again. Part of the graduate school experience, my dear, is about transition -- student to professor -- graduate student is in between, liminal, if you will. Transitions --Rites of passage -- are painful, how can your new role fill you if the old one isn't abraded away? Suffer you will, yes (thanks, Yoda, for invading my brain), but you will also triumph. I am quite sure of that.
Also, it is not that you are quantifiably writing crap, it's that your standards are shifting faster than your talent. Your talent will catch up. You have plenty of talent, my love, plenty.
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Date: 2004-12-08 01:35 pm (UTC)Part of the graduate school experience, my dear, is about transition -- student to professor -- graduate student is in between, liminal, if you will. Transitions --Rites of passage -- are painful, how can your new role fill you if the old one isn't abraded away?
Suffer you will, yes (thanks, Yoda, for invading my brain), but you will also triumph. I am quite sure of that.
Also, it is not that you are quantifiably writing crap, it's that your standards are shifting faster than your talent. Your talent will catch up. You have plenty of talent, my love, plenty.