Unless you use one of those online schools.  If only I wasn’t interested in really learning. 

I am up to my neck in forms and committees and who likes me enough to give up chunks of their time to work with me…being on a doc committee as a professor is not easy.  It takes time and work and consideration for your doc student.  I am happy that I have two committee members who I adore and who really like me. They also don’t have any other doc students which is really super awesome. 

There are so many steps and classifications and things have to be done at a very specific time.  I am a newly accepted doc student and will become a pre-candidate as soon as my committee meets and we approve my program of study–which is mostly laid out but might change once everyone on the committee looks at it.  It’s crazy. 

I have to start thinking seriously about my future and where and what I want to be teaching when I graduate.  I need to start researching and polishing papers to present at conferences and scouring journals for “calls for manuscripts” so that I can start attempting to be published.  I need to get my shit together and really begin planning for my eventual tenure as a professor of education. 

UGH.